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How to Lend Money to Strangers

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

How to Lend Money to Strangers

Brendan le Grange

Credit, Fintech, Management, Lending, Banking, Business, Careers

52.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2023

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

A credit risk specialist with over two decades in credit risk spread across Canada and the US, Frank Tian now writes, teaches, and consults on a wide range of lending risk management topics - so in this episode, I pick his brain, delving into everything from content to creation to the regional bank crisis and how AI might actually be the productivity boost we need to navigate ageing populations in the developed world.



Your best bet for all things Frank Tian is https://www.franktian.net/ but as he mentioned on the show, you’ll find him on LinkedIn, too, at https://www.linkedin.com/in/frankgtian/

You can also buy Frank’s books and courses via the affiliate links below. Being affiliate links doesn't increase the price to you, but if you choose to buy something, I will earn a small commission. That said, these are also available on Amazon and Udemy, if sending billionaires to space is more your jam.



Courses:

Consumer Lending Risk Management Fundamentals (free) https://risk-school.thinkific.com/courses/consumer-lending-risk-management-fundamentals?ref=dfc750

Consumer Lending Risk Management Essentials https://risk-school.thinkific.com/courses/consumer-lending-risk-management-essentials?ref=dfc750


Books:

New Credit, New Finance (ebook) https://risk-school.thinkific.com/courses/new-credit-new-finance?ref=dfc750

Unsecured Lending Risk Management (ebook) https://risk-school.thinkific.com/courses/unsecured-lending-risk-management?ref=dfc750



You can learn more about myself, Brendan le Grange, on my LinkedIn page (feel free to connect), my action-adventure novels are on Amazon, some versions even for free, and my work with ConfirmU and our gamified psychometric scores is at https://confirmu.com/ and on episode 24 of this very show https://www.howtolendmoneytostrangers.show/episodes/episode-24



If you have any feedback, questions, or if you would like to participate in the show, please feel free to reach out to me via the contact page on this site.


Regards, Brendan



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Transcript

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0:00.0

in this consumer credit risk management space,

0:02.4

there's just so many things happening.

0:04.5

So I think there's a greater need

0:07.5

for people to understand what's going on.

0:10.8

I was talking about this with one colleague, not a long ago.

0:13.8

25 years ago, when we first access the internet,

0:16.6

people were hungry for knowledge.

0:18.6

This day is when you think about the

0:20.4

explosion of information available,

0:22.3

but people are still hungry for knowledge.

0:24.6

I think the need is always there.

0:27.1

And also, I think every generation

0:29.9

is our responsibility to transfer knowledge, right?

0:33.6

So the book is one format, but there are many other formats.

0:38.3

I'm still on the journey to learn how to leverage new formats.

0:46.8

Frank Tien is the author of Unsecured Landing Risk Management,

0:51.1

a book whose content overlaps neatly with the show's remit.

0:54.5

So if ever there was a case of no further introduction required,

0:58.5

this must be it.

0:59.8

Welcome to How To Lend Money to Strangers

1:02.4

with Brendan LeGrange.

1:15.9

Frank Tien, author of Unsecured Landing Risk Management,

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