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How to Lend Money to Strangers

Brendan le Grange

A podcast about lending innovation and lending leadership in all the markets in which it takes place, however diverse those markets may be. In fact, it’s a case of ‘the more diverse the better,’ with guests from New York to New Zealand discussing everything from crypto-backed mortgages to crowd-funded loans for refugees to gamified loan journeys to AI-powered credit scores.I am the host, Brendan le Grange, and I have spent the last twenty years working in - or alongside - lenders in Africa, Asia,

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35:03

P2P funding for Europe's farmers, with Nikita Goncars

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2025/11/13

Agricultural loans offer a unique combination of high collateral and EU subsidies – in a crisis-resistant sector. Lande gives us exclusive access to these loans, and this week I'm speaking to the founder, Nikita Goncars.Meet Nikita on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/nikita-goncars-lande/Or jump straight to Lande's homepage at https://lande.finance/BadIdeas.fund is at, you guessed it, https://www.badideas.fund/ and Fintech Latvian is at https://fla.lv/You can find me on LinkedIn, too, of

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33:51

The loans that fund life's biggest moments, with...

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2025/11/06

People don't want mortgages; they want houses, and mortgages are just the unavoidable, often overly-complicated means to that end. Scott Baker understands this, and has embedded it into the very fabric of Toast.Join us as we talk about Scott's journey from retail to finance, the state of the Australian mortgage landscape, and how he built Toast to help consumers dream big and plan bigger.Toast is online at https://www.toastfinance.com.au/It is also on LinkedIn at

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31:03

Modern fraud solutions for modern fraud problems,...

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2025/10/30

We’re increasingly seeing collaboration between cybercrime, fraud, organised crime and money laundering.Organisations face mounting challenges in protecting their digital infrastructure and customers from fraudulent activities - and this is true in developed and developing markets. Developed countries tend to have more developed risk controls, but they remain attractive to fraudsters because of the scale of opportunity they represent - more work for frausters, yes, but more reward. Developing

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47:45

Cashflows and credit for SMEs, with Guga Gorenstein

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2025/10/23

Corporate cards, payments, accounting, and credit for growing businesses in 25+ countries - there's a lot to cover today, and then we also chat about Brazzilion fintech and Guga's impressive career!If you're in Mexico as this comes out, I think you can still catch the Jeeves team at Mexico Tech week (https://www.mexicotechweek.mx/). If not, you can try Jeeves over at https://www.tryjeeves.com/br (or for any of the other 6 regions by removing the extension, but you all know how the internet works)You

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48:16

Collecting from debtors is hard, but often not as...

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2025/10/16

If you're fed up with chasing unpaid invoices and debts, iCollect's DIY debt collection software might be the solution for you. You don't have to be a lender to have creditors, but you often have to be a lender to afford a full team to chase those creditors when they start to default - that's where Amanda Morrison steps in.icollect is at https://www.icollect.co.nz/Guardian Credit Services are at https://www.guardiancredit.co.nz/Or jump right to LinkedIn, where Amanda is at

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46:24

Flexible and intelligent collections for improved...

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2025/10/09

Getting out of debt has never been harder, and, yes, a sluggish economy and the cost of recovering from a global pandemic play a big role in this, but lenders are not entirely blameless. For too long, it felt cheaper to deliver rigid and unpleasant collections processes, because 'it's not like the customer has a choice'. But they do, they have the most important choice available: to pay or not to pay.Collections is not just about 'how do we make the customer pay', it's about 'how do we let them pay'

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33:38

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

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2025/08/07

Suren Rastogi started his career in financial services, but, called to do something a little more exciting, he has broken away to pursue his dream of launching a board game. We'll talk about his roots, his pivot, and what it took to create Burnout: a chaotic strategic party game about mental health and the daily grind.Head on over to https://www.burnoutgame.com/ to get on the waitlist, it's the perfect office Secret Santa gift!Follow the team on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/end_burnout/And

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35:42

Banking (and lending) for the eco-conscious masses

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2025/07/31

Banking that's good for you and the planet. You can see the GreenFi offering first-hand at https://www.greenfi.com/. GreenFi helps you save money, earn cash back, and plant trees - all while keeping your money out of fossil fuels. No mandatory fees. No greenwashing. Just a better way to bank.You can follow Tim on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/timothynewell/ Follow GreenFi at the saem time over at https://www.linkedin.com/company/greenfibanking/I am on LinkedIn, too, at

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36:02

Unbankable, making a movie about lending

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2025/07/24

Luke Willms is an award-winning writer, director, and producer... and he's interested in lending. Unabnkable is the culmination of a seven-year, seven-country journey to unravel whether Africa's rich tapestry of tradition, innovation and experimentation to find out if it holds the key to Western economic revitalisation.Find all the details at https://unbankablemovie.com/ (or watch it on https://tv.apple.com/gb/movie/unbankable/umc.cmc.2b51h3w0b2lbdrvt0af8vklx2 or

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54:34

Embracing GenAI in credit risk

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2025/07/07

McKinsey recently surveyed senior credit risk executives from, among others, nine of the top ten US banks, and they asked them about their organisations’ adoption of GenAI, its current use cases, their future plans for it, and the challenges they expected. Twenty percent of the respondents had already implemented at least one GenAI use case in their organizations, and a further 60 percent expect to do so within a year. With how quickly AI is embedding itself in our daily lives, we have to assume

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30:40

An AI-powered link in the chain

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2025/07/03

Simplified funding for SMEs: pre-qualification in minutes, funded within a day, this is not the business lending of yesteryear. Credibly is at home online at https://www.credibly.com/ You can find Ryan on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryan-rosett-262b642/While Credibly is there at https://www.linkedin.com/company/credibly/I am on LinkedIn, too, at https://www.linkedin.com/in/brendanlegrange/ as is the show, at https://www.linkedin.com/company/how-to-lend-money-to-strangersYou can support

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50:51

What are the odds?

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2025/06/30

I've just added a new section to the website, featuring affiliate links to all the books written by the great guests we've featured on this show - https://www.howtolendmoneytostrangers.show/recommended-reads. If you scan that list before you listen to this show, you'll find among themDr Michael OrkinwithWhat Are the Odds? and Probability & Statistics Made Interesting. Dr. Orkin is a statistics professor and consultant, and a nationally known authority on probability and gambling games who has

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35:26

Outsourcing AI

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2025/06/26

Very early in my career, back in the days when the details from paper forms had to be typed into a computer to get the application process started, I heard about companies scanning application forms and then sending the files to India to have the data capture done there. A decade later, the guy I was chatting to in a hotel bar in Nairobi promised me he could build a collection call centre in India, staffed by Swahili-speaking staff at a fraction of the local cost. And now, as I hear from Rajul Sood,

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36:12

Behind the scenes: investing in loans

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2025/06/23

You can't lend money if you don't have capital. And you can't grow your capital if you don't deploy it. There have long been matchmakers to link those two sides together, but traditionally they've only come into play when the numbers involved started b's or even t's. Exaloan closes the global funding gap for individuals, entrepreneurs, and SMEs by connecting institutional capital with the digital lending ecosystem, digitizing the refinancing processes for lenders.So today we're taking the loan for

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38:59

Growing a business in vitro

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2025/06/19

The Dunning-Kruger effect is a cognitive bias where people with high ability on a given task tend to underestimate their competence, while those with low ability overestimate theirs. It's typically examples of the second half of that antithesis that make the headlines, but the first half is problematic, too, because sometimes the experts best placed to start a new business are the ones most held back by doubt. And that's why I love the controlled environment that In Vitro Capital has created to,

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46:24

Funding the green home revolution

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2025/06/16

This is an unscientific guess, but I have to believe that the vast majority of us would prefer to get our power needs met by renewable sources in our own backyards - cleaner, yes, but also free from the price shocks that have become so common recently. That said, heat pumps and solar panels are expensive and complicated - a daunting combination that holds many people back, myself included. That's where Cloover steps in. Born in Sweden but now finding a lot of traction in Germany, Cloover partner

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53:45

How to Lend Money to Billders

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2025/06/12

Recorded live in Austin, Texas at the offices of Billd, this episode of HTLMTS explores the ways in which Christopher Doyle and his team are removing financing friction from the building process. Few of us look forward to a building project, but all of us make use of the end results, so let's take a look behind the scenes at how the money does (and doesn't flow) between lenders, general contractors, subcontractors, and suppliers.To find out more about how Billd's financial solutions built for

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51:36

How to Lend Money to Regenerative Farmers

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2025/06/09

"I am done with apologies. If contrariness is my inheritance and destiny, so be it. If it is my mission to go in at exits and come out at entrances, so be it." - Wendell BerryThe world that Robbie Vitrano and the team at Mad Agriculture is striving to create is so vastly different than the world that is, that nearly everything that they do bears certainmadness. From heart to head, poetry to science, financing to markets, and soil to shelf, MadAg help farmers thrive in regenerative organic

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1:02:42

Selling clarity in a volatile market

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2025/06/05

Twenty years ago, the economy of Zimbabwe hit global headlines for its hyper-inflation: Wikipedia tells me prices rose 89.7 sextillion percent in 2008. And while the decimal point here may create the illusion of something measurable, in all real terms, it is an incomprehensible number - something which The Zimbabwean Newspaper cleverly circumvented when it ran a protest campaign using a trillion dollars of actual bank notes as a backdrop to billboards and posters. This was brought under control for

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1:12:27

How to set goals and actually achieve them this time!

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2024/12/31

A cross-over episode to celebrate our crossing over from 2024 to 2025 😜 a time we traditionally think about goals for the future. But while goal setting is common, goal achieving tends to be somewhat rarer - I'll personally be entering my 20th successive 'Year of the Body' with nothing but an even softer belly to show for the previous 19 years of good intentions.In this episode, we sat down with John Assaraf to find out how we can not just set bold goals but go on to achieve them. John is an

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