Lenders leaping forward, with Paul Weiss (Simbuka)

How to Lend Money to Strangers

Brendan le Grange

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

5 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2024

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

"If my mom asks me what I do, I say I work for a company that helps financial institutions worldwide to make lending simple". Paul Weiss is talking about Simbuka in this quote, a young and passionate software development company, focusing on financial institutions that operate in developing and emerging markets. And since the name Simbuka originates from the Kinyarwanda language, what better location to find Paul than in Kigali.

Simbuka is online at https://www.simbuka.com/ or find and follow them on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/company/simbuka/)

Paul is on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/paul-weiss123/

You can seek me out on LinkedIn, too, where I'm open to all genuine new connections - https://www.linkedin.com/in/brendanlegrange - and follow the show's page while you're there.

Meanwhile, my action-adventure novels are on Amazon, some versions even for free, and my work with ConfirmU and our gamified psychometric scores is discussed at https://confirmu.com/ and on episode 24 of this show https://www.howtolendmoneytostrangers.show/episodes/episode-24

And finally, I'm also co-creating a new podcast called hAIghtened senses which will look at the intersection between human senses and technology, especially AI-powered technology. You can already start to follow it wherever you're listening to this one - there's only a trailer there at the moment, but we've recorded some of the early episodes and it's going to be a fun ride!

Keep well, Brendan

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0:00.0	If my mom asked me what I do, I work for a company that helps financial institutions worldwide to make lending simple.
0:08.0	Traditional financial institutions are sitting on a pot of gold.
0:12.0	They have a lot of data in essence. They know already so much
0:16.1	about a customer. Welcome to how to lend money to strangers with Brendan Lagrange.
0:25.0	After the excitement of our first visit, we're back in Rwanda today,
0:29.0	looking at purposeful systems and the burning questions facing the boards of East African lenders. Paul Weiss, head of Growth at Simbuka Software Solutions for Banks.
0:54.4	Welcome to the show.
0:55.8	Thank you, it's a pleasure.
0:57.3	Thank you for having me.
0:58.3	Paul, you have a focus on East Africa these days,
1:01.6	but your career routes are Indo Dutch. So I don't usually do this, but if you don't mind, can we explore your
1:08.8	master's thesis and your first foray into international social entrepreneurship I guess.
1:15.4	Definitely, definitely indeed. I did my master thesis in Indonesia and the topic of my master thesis was entrepreneurial intentions of university students in the Netherlands and also in Indonesia.
1:30.0	Comparing the characteristics of students in Indonesia or in the Netherlands to make the decision to become an entrepreneur yes or no.
1:36.8	Yeah, I called that one up because actually by chance my MBA thesis was in a similar field not exactly the same but I looked also
1:45.6	at entrepreneurial intention within unemployed populations in South Africa and it
1:50.5	it's something you don't think much about but but as soon as you start looking, there are all these
1:54.9	contextual aspects that can change whether or not programs succeed and well-intended efforts to drive things like entrepreneurship will work.
2:06.0	You then moved to Accenture and I guess that was your foray into financial services.
2:11.0	Absolutely. I did my master's in Strategic Management, which is quite a broad business course, I would say, and
2:18.2	it was a logical step to join Accenture.
2:20.2	And I joined their Strategy and Consulting department in the financial services sector,
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