Lithuanian fintech is compact and agile, with Jekaterina Rojaka (Creditinfo)

How to Lend Money to Strangers

Brendan le Grange

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

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🗓️ 2 November 2023

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

It's only thirty years since Lithuania's broke free from the Soviet Union, but already it's home a buzzing fintech scene: "Leapfrogging was probably the largest idea behind the Lithuanian success". Join me and Jekaterina Rojaka, Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) at Creditinfo Lietuva, as we explore the roots of that success.

Creditinfo Lithuania can be found at https://lt.creditinfo.com/en/ or jump straight to https://lt.creditinfo.com/en/strongest-in-lithuania/ for award-winning Lithuanian businesses

But, as we've covered on this show before, they've got operations all over the world, so you can also head to https://creditinfo.com/ to find your closest office

On LinkedIn, you can follow them at https://www.linkedin.com/company/creditinfo-lietuva/ but they're also on Facebook and Youtube

And that's where you'll find Jekatarina, too: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jekaterina-rojaka-49909910/

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

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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0:00.0	When we talk about Lithuania, when we're talking about their small but strong economy,
0:05.7	actually, Lithuania is not a small country, it's a big country compacted to your convenience.
0:11.5	It's easy to reach, it's pretty much all in one place, it's great work, life, balance.
0:16.7	Lithuania is a very agile, Lithuania is very computerized and a very mobile, and for
0:23.4	our size, we currently have 263 FinTech companies.
0:28.5	They are working not only for Lithuania, they're working globally.
0:37.5	When I lived in Copenhagen, my wife and I aim to travel to one new country per month
0:42.4	on average, so sometimes one country in one month, a little weekend break, and sometimes
0:47.8	two or three countries every few months.
0:50.1	And one thing I grew to realize was that many of the European highlights were slightly
0:54.8	snookered by a mix of familiarity and high expectations.
0:59.8	The Eiffel Tower, yeah, looks exactly like the Eiffel Tower, the canals of Amsterdam
1:04.8	are cool, but in exactly the way described, and the Colosseum, actually the Colosseum really
1:10.3	impressed me, but you surely know what I mean.
1:13.1	So I started to develop a taste for places I knew less about, Budapest, Sarajevo, Lubek,
1:19.5	Italian, Riga.
1:21.2	The latter three playing a key role in Drachan, my first novel which is available for
1:25.3	free as an e-book on Amazon and Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania.
1:30.1	We loved Vilnius.
1:31.7	It has a charming enough old town and has some lovely sights within easy reach.
1:36.7	I think me in front of Track Eye Island Castle is still my sky profile since I've forgotten
1:41.8	how to change that, but that's not what made it so memorable.
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