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How to Lend Money to Strangers

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

How to Lend Money to Strangers

Brendan le Grange

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

52.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2023

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Nearly two out of every three Colombian jobs are in the informal economy! That's a huge number that needs to come down, and no doubt it will, but until then, someone really needs to bring the benefits of formal financing to the small business owners in the informal sector. Enter Quipu with whose AI-powered loan decisions "growing is easier, fairer and more alternative".



You can find Viviana on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/viviana-siless/



There's a Quipu page there, too, https://www.linkedin.com/company/quipulatam/ but there's even more information on their homepage over at https://quipu.com.co/



I am on LinkedIn, too, so feel free to find me and send me a connection request there: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brendanlegrange



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



I met Viviana while in Edinburgh at the 18th meeting of the Credit Scoring and Credit Control Conference - the next one is in two years time and it’s well-wroth planning for. In the meantime, follow the CRC’s work at https://www.crc.business-school.ed.ac.uk/home



If you have any feedback or 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.



Keep well, Brendan



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It is more than 50% of the economic activities informal in Latin America and so because of that

0:38.8

they don't have access to capital for growing their businesses and what we are trying to do is to help out and to

0:46.2

yeah to make it a little bit more fair for economic growth for everybody. Obviously you can do it with pen and paper but you know I can say

0:55.6

from experience or at least the experience that we have doing it manually is that

1:00.0

really doesn't work and so really our scoring what we are building is to try tour of the British Isles.

1:21.0

I used my birthday money for the plane ticket, my waiter's wages for beer money. My uncle

1:26.2

towed a caravan into London for us to use as a base. We stayed at a friend's sister in the

1:31.1

Cotswills. My aunt lent us a car with its boot full of goodies and

1:35.2

its tank full of petrol so we could explore the Lake District. You get the picture.

1:40.0

I'd been to Namibia once as a kid and to England once as a teenager but this was my first

1:45.2

real experience of traveling and it was incredible.

1:48.9

But when I think back to it now, probably the evening I remember more than any, was spent in Edinburgh.

1:55.1

We had seen the castle and we'd started a hop-on-hop-off tour of the city.

1:58.8

I think we'd jumped off when it got too cold, so it wasn't because of the city's charms as

2:04.4

undeniable as they are. And it wasn't because of anything extravagant we did

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