BNPL in the Middle East, with Ziyaad Ahmed (Spotii)
How to Lend Money to Strangers
Brendan le Grange
4.9 • 43 Ratings
🗓️ 18 August 2022
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
BNPL is usually spoken about in terms of it being a more convenient payment tool for people in option-rich credit markets, but a revenue model that doesn’t require interest resonates with Middle Eastern customers for even more reasons.
So in this episode I speak to Ziyaad Ahmed, co-founder and COO at Spotii, a Dubai-based BNPL now in the ZipPay stable.
You can learn more about Spotii at https://www.spotii.com/
Their social tag is @spotiime ala https://instagram.com/spotiime?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
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 HTLMTS.show page
Regards,
Brendan
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