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How to Lend Money to Strangers

A podcast about lending in all its forms and in all the markets in which it takes place, however div

Episodes

Total: 164

In the very first episode of HTLMTS, Raymond Anderson mentioned a consultant who’d served as somethi

Back of the envelope, according to Poets and Quants, a Harvard MBA will set you back $130,000 per ye

It used to be that to speak about credit bureau data, was to speak about defaults. But negative bank

I've always been interested in emerging markets, which early in my career meant the BRICs - Brazil,

Level with me, how often do you really go to the dentist? Is it every 6 months like they tell you to

Is this another BNPL episode? Of course, it is.But what can I say, the world seems to have an unquen

My very first job was building models to catch credit card fraud, at that time we were most concerne

In this week’s episode of HTLMTS, I speak to Matt Fabian, TransUnion Canada's Director for Research

Powered by a growing middle class and a more connected rural population, the Indian consumer credit

The Vikings are coming! The Vikings are coming!For a long time, the Nordic financial services market

Hong Kong is a small market, smaller still in the shadow of the Chinese Mainland market which we exp

Poor infrastructure was an insurmountable hurdle for the traditional banking model in many developin

I’ve been an international immigrant three times now – into Denmark, into Hong Kong, and into the UK

Last week I had the pleasure of hosting a panel discussion at a virtual event hosted by some of my f

I named this podcast How to Lend Money to Strangers because for the last twenty years that’s exactly

The traditional credit model is often underpinned by an existing credit history. This makes sense ma

For a long time, collections teams tended to look a bit like government departments, where customers

Few of us will have experienced something as disruptive as COVID-19. The disease, and the lockdowns

We like to talk about algorithms, and big data, and machine learning, but sometimes we’d do well to

When Dr Ruifeng Liu was transferred to China, it was to help the Postal Savings Bank of China roll o