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How to Lend Money to Strangers — 194 episodes

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1

Coaching beyond the models, with Marc Gaudart (Trent Advisory Services)

2

Lending without guessing, with Christo Georgiev (Lender Link)

3

The house that bitcoin bought, with Josip Rupena

4

Empowered brokers sell better mortgages and better mortgages are, well, better for everyone, with James Tucker

5

How lenders are navigating volatility in 2026, with David Silverstein

6

How AI and behavioural economics can re-humanize financial services, with Diederick van Thiel

7

Giving credit credit in the board room, with Marlize Buys

8

Put a bit of juice in the tank, with Katherin Chan

9

Your branch on your phone, with Albert Howard

10

How to teach money to students, with Latreace Wells and Rod Griffin

11

P2P funding for Europe's farmers, with Nikita Goncars

12

The loans that fund life's biggest moments, with Scott Baker

13

Modern fraud solutions for modern fraud problems, with Rob Meakin

14

Cashflows and credit for SMEs, with Guga Gorenstein

15

Collecting from debtors is hard, but often not as hard as selling to strangers, with Amanda Morrison

16

Flexible and intelligent collections for improved returns, with Hannah Baynham

17

Work's a joke anyway, so they made it a game!

18

Banking (and lending) for the eco-conscious masses (GreenFi)

19

Unbankable, making a movie about lending

20

Embracing GenAI in credit risk (McKinsey)

21

An AI-powered link in the chain (Credibly)

22

What are the odds?

23

Outsourcing AI (Acuity Knowledge Partners)

24

Behind the scenes: investing in loans (Exaloan)

25

Growing a business in vitro (Invitro Capital)

26

Funding the green home revolution (Coover)

27

How to Lend Money to Billders (Billd)

28

How to Lend Money to Regenerative Farmers (MAD Agriculture)

29

Selling clarity in a volatile market (Credifsafe)

30

How to set goals and actually achieve them this time!

31

How to try a new podcast aka the hAIghtened senses feed take-over

32

Innovation for interesting markets (Provenir)

33

Lenders leaping forward, with Paul Weiss (Simbuka)

34

A global study of credit self-monitoring, with Charlie Wise (TransUnion)

35

A modern, digital loan for India with Kabeer Chaudhary (ClickMyLoan)

36

Building a green credit score, with Daniel Mclean (4most)

37

Closing the SME funding gap, recorded live at Money20/20 with Rob Straathof (Liberis)

38

Real-time data for collections, recorded live at Money20/20 with James Hill (Flexys)

39

Lessons from the Chinese model, with Richard Turrin (Author & Consultant)

40

Funding growth in modern economies, with Ritwik Ghosh (Seedflex)

41

Fighting illegal money lending, with Catherine Wohlers (Stop Loan Sharks)

42

Funding families, with John Aronica (Gaia)

43

Cross-border lending in the EU, with Kaido Saar (MiFundo)

44

Understanding customers. Getting them into houses. with Chris Schutrups (The Mortgage Hut)

45

Zero interest Zero fees Zero new credit, with Alex Forsyth-Thompson (Float)

46

Lending: it's a risky business, with Carolyn Rohm

47

Automating complex data-driven decisions, with Martin Chudoba (Taran)

48

Mobile-first lending in Tanzania, with Nassor Abubakar (NMB Bank)

49

Unleashing CreditPy, with Ayhan Diş

50

Have you talked to your kids about data science? With Daniele Forni (HSBC)

51

Streamlining Australian home loans, with Vincent Turner (Uno Home Loans)

52

Rwanda on the rise, with Sam Tayengwa (TransUnion)

53

A massively more inclusive credit score, with Charles Wandia (gnuGrid CRB)

54

A canary in the credit mine, with James Fell (Credit Canary)

55

The only mortgage you'll ever need, with Arjan Verbeek (Perenna Bank)

56

Turbocharged AI analytics, with Carey Anderson (1datapipe)

57

Tokyo: Asia's next FinTech hub, with Morris Iwai

58

Agile decision systems for modern lending needs, with Dmitriy Wolkenstein (Timvero)

59

Aiming when you can't see the target, with Clare McCaffery (DirectID) and Jacobus Eksteen (Matogen AI)

60

Optimising credit limit increases for profit, with Cristian Bravo (Western University)

61

Multi-currency and cross-border lending, with Jorge Juttner (Ritmo) and Maggie Gemmill (Currencycloud)

62

Who defaults on Covid loans, with Maurizio Fiaschetti (University College London)

63

AI-powered lending for Colombian businesses, with Viviana Siless (Quipu Bank)

64

The right content in the right hands at the right time, with Nicky Senyard (Fintel Connect)

65

Lithuanian fintech is compact and agile, with Jekaterina Rojaka (Creditinfo)

66

KYC Better, with Sasha Marley (Bonafidee)

67

Building the scaffolding for a Nigerian credit boom, with Adedeji Olowe (Lendsqr)

68

Loans to build communities, with Moishe Gubin (Optimum Bank)

69

Lending against distressed properties not to distressed borrowers, with Todd Pigott (ZINC)

70

Enhancing decision accuracy, with Maik Taro Wehmeyer (Taktile)

71

In the end, it's all about the people, with Robbie Blake (Northreach)

72

Bridges to Credit: Alternative Data and Inclusive Finance, with Santiago Espinoza (LexisNexis Risk Solutions)

73

Cross-border BNPL in Brazil, with Vinícius Vieira (BEXS)

74

Advanced analytical models, with Dr Joseph Breeden (Deep Future Analytics)

75

Resilience and speed, with Svitlanka Sergiichuk (NeoFin)

76

A look at revenue-based finance, with Pratik Sawal

77

A path to profitable lending, with Maik Taro Wehmeyer (Taktile)

78

Know good | catch bad, with Sjoerd Slot

79

Scaling your impact, with Adriaan Schiphorst (Lendahand)

80

Financing everyday essentials for everyone, with Mayur Patel (M-Kopa)

81

How to lend money to astronauts, with Russell Shaw (Equatorial Launch Australia)

82

Pioneering mobile fintech services, with Seymur Mammadov (Simbrella)

83

Familiar but digital, with Rohit Bhargava (BOMTech)

84

Credit for African creators, with Chinedu Enekwe (Nandi Labs)

85

Buy Now Report to the Credit Bureau Now, with Simon Forster (Experian)

86

How to lend money to underestimated entrepreneurs, with Demi Ariyo (Lendoe)

87

It's people helping people, with Craig Smith (JustLend)

88

Bridging the trade financing gap for Sri Lankan small businesses, with Lakshan De Silva (iLoan)

89

From bankrupt borrower to millionaire lender, with Matt Haycox (Funding Guru)

90

The evolution of consumer lending in Poland, with Bartek Staszewski

91

This unicorn wants to eliminate the cost of consumer credit, with Philip Belamant (Zilch)

92

Bridging the academic-practitioner divide at the Credit Scoring and Credit Control Conference XVIII

93

Bringing their financially inclusive world to the UK, with Matt Davies (Nova)

94

A Practitioner's Guide to Unsecured Lending Risk Management, with Frank Tian

95

Flexible and adaptable loan terms, with Damien Burke (Custom Credit)

96

Special re-release: How to stop lending money to strangers and follow your dreams, with Gideon Griebenow (World Turtles)

97

Untangling bureau data, with Dillon Harindiran (Slipstream)

98

'New to credit' shouldn’t mean 'too risky for credit', with Charlie Wise (TransUnion)

99

Community-sourced loans for SMEs, with George Cook (Honeycomb Credit)

100

Imagery that only your customers will know, with Matt Salisbury (Honey Badger)

101

Your interest paid in fine wine, with Maxime Debure (WineFunding)

102

A fintech pioneer and change bringer in Pakistan, with Naureen Hyat (Tez/ ZoodPay)

103

Building a Canadian loan marketplace, with Vlad Sherbatov (Smarter Loans)

104

Pay your rent and I'll give you the house, with Ike Udechuku (Pathway Points)

105

Opening a beer faster, with Oli Tomson (Era)

106

Closing a mortgage faster, with Eilon Shalev (Elphi)

107

Transforming the credit landscape in Central Asia, with Abdullo Kurbanov (Alif Bank)

108

Now you can buy that boat you've always had your eye on, with Joe Dalton (Salt)

109

Turning a customer obsession into retail credit, with Regan Adams (RCS)

110

Lending innovation in Finland, with Kim Ahola (Creditstar)

111

Financing the property industry, with Paul Watts (Lenuity)

112

Credit management meets innovation and ethics in Nigeria, with Moses Nmor (BFREE)

113

Transformative change in credit scoring, with Sanjay Uppal (Finbots.AI)

114

Helping students to achieve their financial goals, with Ethan Fraenkel (ProGrad)

115

Growth from a small island, with Mark van Beuningen (CIM Group)

116

Pioneering fintech in Uruguay, with Mateo Infantozzi (Prezzta and Octa.dev)

117

A credit bureau for emerging markets, with Burak Kilicoglu (CreditInfo)

118

Building the P2P app she needed because no one else would, with Lika Osmanova (Lendwill)

119

Strategy meets data science when it comes to SME lending, with Frank Gerhard (McKinsey & Company)

120

NFT-backed crypto loans, with Nuno Cortesão (Zharta)

121

Tax credit lending in future industries, with Zach Tarica (The Forest Road Company)

122

Gamifying a route to a long-term credit relationship, with Jorge Enriquez (Credilikeme)

123

More appealing credit card offers (and a trip around the world), with Chris Hutchins (All The Hacks)

124

Fueling your business with other people’s money, with Jonathan Fodera (Integrated Business Financing)

125

Using the power of amortisation for good, Jinesh Vohra (Sprive)

126

Holding up a mirror to the lending industry, with Elena Botella (Delinquent: Inside America's Debt Machine)

127

A more inclusive credit score for lending and securitization, with Toni Hubbs (VantageScore)

128

How to lend money to refugees, with Lev Plaves (Kiva)

129

Crypto-backed mortgages, with Phil Blows (ByBrix)

130

The service is the collateral, with Neel Juriasingani (Datacultr)

131

Explainable AI and a new style of credit bureau, with Evan Chrapko (Trust Science)

132

Lending in frontier segments, with Todd Kleperis (Payzel)

133

The future of South African banking is open, with Nick Tuttelberg (DirectID)

134

BNPL in the Middle East, with Ziyaad Ahmed (Spotii)

135

AI driven credit scores, with Sabelo Sibanda (CreditAIs)

136

What lenders can learn from borrowers, with Nicole Lapin (Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin)

137

Making payday lending redundant, with Caroline van der Merwe and Simon Ellis (Jem)

138

Empowering entrepreneurial women, with Debbie Watkins (Lucy)

139

How to stop lending money to strangers and follow your dreams, with Gideon Griebenow (World Turtles)

140

Private lending for real estate, with Alex Breshears (Lend2Live)

141

The value of self-regulation, with Anna Roughley (LSB)

142

Putting core banking on the cloud, with Antonio Separovic (Oradian)

143

The little credit bureau that did, with Paul Randall (Creditinfo)

144

A foot-up onto the property ladder, with Cameron Orcutt (OnLadder)

145

The data you need when you need it, with Simon Gregory (Data on Demand)

146

Machine learning to power a fintech revolution, with Jeff Keltner (Upstart)

147

Lending innovation in Moldova, with Bogdan Plesuvescu (Victoriabank)

148

P2P Lending is Not Dead, with Mukesh Bubna (Monexo)

149

Lending in Thailand and SE Asia, with Marco Chu (TransUnion) and Phadet Charoensivakorn (NCB)

150

How to Lend Money to Charities, with Holger Westphely (CAF Venturesome)

151

Building an all-in-one credit platform, with Ash Bhatt (Pillar)

152

Consumer protection in Inclusive Finance, with Jayshree Venkatesan (Center for Financial Inclusion)

153

Active credit building, with Sho Sugihara (Pave)

154

Financing smart agriculture, with Allan Tollo (MyFugo)

155

The cards are alright... for now, with Liz Ruddick (FICO)

156

Expanding access to micro-credit and micro-incomes, with Adam Rice (AssetDirect)

157

Purposeful BNPL in an emerging market, with Mark McChlery (PayJustNow)

158

Open banking is mainstream, with James Varga (DirectID)

159

Can the blockchain solve ‘identity’, with Jonathan Camilleri Bowman (Sekuritance)

160

Open Banking in Greece and beyond, with Dimitris Petrilis (Infin8)

161

Touch and tech in African consumer loans, with Michiel le Roux (Unifi Credit)

162

Learning from our lending mistakes, with James Lambridis (DebtMD)

163

Lending against assets, all assets, with James Constantinou (Prestige Pawnbrokers)

164

Consumers and their credit data, with Kelli Fielding (TransUnion)

165

Could we lend against crypto assets, with Phil Blows (AQRU)

166

Fixing vendor finance, with Alex Armitage (Nectarine Credit)

167

A global career in collections, with Chris Somervell

168

What is an identity, with Jaime Ramirez (Preventor)

169

Seamless working capital finance, with Alek Koenig (Settle)

170

Gamifying credit scores for the unbanked, with Yatir Zaluski, Niharika Bhargava, and Jacobus Eksteen (ConfirmU)

171

Credit scoring in Nigeria, from Jes Freemantle (Stratus Credit Consultancy)

172

Lending against talent, with Joel Frisch (Prodigy Finance)

173

Expanding the definition of credit bureau data, with Jon Roughley (Experian)

174

The Russian consumer credit landscape, with Igor Propopenko (Experian)

175

Building better collections processes, with Dylan Jones (IE Hub)

176

Accelerating BNPL in Spain, with Jaime Marin Merlo (Fiizy)

177

Fraud and identity trends, with John Cannon (Oakford Consulting)

178

Resilient Canadian consumers are looking forward to growth, with Matt Fabian (TransUnion)

179

Modern lending In India, with Praveen Sinha and Amit Pandey (Pincap)

180

Consumer credit in the Nordics, with Jakob Færgeman (Experian)

181

A Hong Kong market update with Dr Francis Lau

182

The exponential growth of digital banking in Ghana, with Felix Duku (Duku Consulting)

183

Making credit histories globally portable, with Misha Esipov (Nova Credit)

184

Instant gratification with Michele Tucci, André Marques, and Anit Antony

185

Lending money to friends and family, with Craig Smith (JustLend)

186

Big data scoring for thin file and new-to-credit customers, with Oscar Koster (Big Data Scoring)

187

Risk-based collections in the time of COVID-19, with Terry Franklin (Qualco)

188

The state of the American consumer credit industry, with Matt Komos (TransUnion)

189

Scoring for microfinance, with Joffre Toerien (Credit Insight Analytics)

190

An insider‘s view of the Chinese consumer credit landscape, with Zhong Liu and Ruifeng Liu

191

Leveraging BNPL to expand access to credit, with Georg Steiger (BillEase)

192

Turning scorecards into revenue, with Graham Whitley (Quid Pro Consulting)

193

A History of Risk Assessment, with Raymond Anderson (Rayan Analytics)

194

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