How to Lend Money to Strangers

Brendan le Grange

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Booking Overview

A weekly fintech conversation focused on how lending decisions get made—and how new technology, data, and credit models change access to loans. It’s a strong pitch for PR and thought leadership around consumer/business lending, credit data, and risk/underwriting innovation in global markets.

Metrics

Episodes: 206

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 4.8/5.0

Estimated listeners: <1k

Gender skew: Male

Location: USA

YouTube: 1.9k subscribers

Instagram: 413 followers

Contact Information

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Host

Brendan le Grange - The description says he is the host and has spent the last twenty years working in—or alongside—lenders in Africa, Asia, and Europe, using that experience to find and learn from industry insiders i...

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

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Typical Credentials:  
Industry insiders in lending and adjacent fintech (e.g., founders/executives in lending platforms, credit data companies, insurtech/fintech leadership, and recognized fintech operators/events builders).
Required Achievements:  
Built or led lending/credit-data initiatives or startups, Developed products related to credit scoring, credit data control, or underwriting/risk, Held prominent roles in fintech ecosystems (events/platforms or multinational inclusion efforts), Contributed to financial inclusion or credit access programs across multiple markets

Recent Guest Discussions

Stan Ng - Insurance Applied To Insuring Strangers; Parallels To Risk/commitment; Insurtech Experience And Best Practices.

Sanjib Kalita - Early Career; Building Fintech Meetup/events; Startup Ventures Including Guppy And Transforming How Consumers And Businesses Control And Use Credit Data.

Elari Tammenurm - Financial Inclusion And Credit Access Across Iceland, The Baltics, And Beyond (creditinfo Context).

Hrefna Sigfinnsdottir - Financial Inclusion And Credit Access Across Iceland, The Baltics, And Beyond (creditinfo Context).

Recent Topics

Lending, Fintech, Credit, Risk, Underwriting

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
How to Lend Money to Strangers
:

Solving big problems in innovative ways, with Waqas Javed (Bank of Punjab)

July 02, 2026

Pakistan is massively underbanked, but those gaps are being closed faster than you might think, using a range of innovative solutions that range from traditional credit bureaus to satellite imagery to psychometric scorecards. In this episode, I'm with Waqas Javed, EVP for Data Analytics AI at the Bank of Punjab, talking about the vision behind, and the impact of, their drive to bring fair credit products to the people.You can find Waqas on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/wajaved/The B...

How to insure stuff for strangers, with Stan Ng

June 26, 2026

We don't normally talk about insurance on here, but we've just published our 200th episode, so the rules no longer apply to us 🤣 But, also, we're not so different from our insuring cousins, who also need to make an upfront commitment of funds against some measure of risk.Stan Ng is my guide, and you can find him plu shis many ventures at https://www.linkedin.com/in/stan-ng-61228040/Aireka is there, too, of course https://www.linkedin.com/company/aireka-digital-transformation/ but you'll get t...

Bringing together multiple viewpoints, both in person and in data with Sanjib Kalita (Fintech Meetup and Guppy)

June 25, 2026

Sanjib Kalita is one of the most recognisable faces in global fintech, and now one of the most recognisable voices in global fintech, too, so when I saw we were approaching 200 episodes, he was who I wanted to get on to mark the occasion. We talk about Sanjib's early career, his move into events, including what it has been like building Fintech Meetup, the Most Valuable Event in Fintech, and then, because Sanjib doesn't just talk the talk, we cover his own startup ventures, inc...

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