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How to Lend Money to Strangers

Transforming the credit landscape in Central Asia, with Abdullo Kurbanov (Alif Bank)

How to Lend Money to Strangers

Brendan le Grange

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

52.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Alif Bank has grown into one of the leading fintechs in Central Asia; and with its portfolio of Sharia-compliant lending, payments, and banking products it's showing that fintech can be based on noble values.



Alif Bank and all its products can be found at www.alif.tj (click the link to jump to English) or on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/company/alif-capital/



Abdullo himself, who you've heard is very personable, is also there at https://www.linkedin.com/in/akurbanov/



You can read about the academy and how Alif are building future tech stars at https://fintechmagazine.com/financial-services-finserv/fintech-in-tajikistan-director-of-alif-academy-on-diversity



Then, in the episode Abdullo mentions how Alif are now an AWS case study, and he means that literally, you can read more about their hybrid migration to AWS at https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/alif-bank-case-study/



Somon.tj is exactly where you'd expect it: https://somon.tj/



Tajikistan is a mountainous, rugged country - if you'd like to visit it, read more here https://wikitravel.org/en/Tajikistan or here https://advntr.cc/the-not-knowing-an-adventure-in-tajikistan/



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 my site: https://www.howtolendmoneytostrangers.show/contact-us.



Oh, and if you’re in need of more banking podcasts, you can find related content at https://blog.feedspot.com/banking_podcasts/



Regards, Brendan



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Transcript

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0:00.0

That's it, Daz. Give me three more, that's it. Come on, Hazard, come on mate.

0:04.0

And again.

0:05.0

Darren, or Dazard to his mate, knows exactly what to do in the gym.

0:08.0

He's got perfect form, balances his carbs and proteins,

0:11.0

and never skips a leg day.

0:13.0

He can bench press four times his body weight. He's immune to the burn.

0:16.0

But he's still got burned by a cold caller,

0:19.0

selling him a once in a lifetime investment opportunity.

0:21.0

Investment scams can be hard to spot, and you could be targeted,

0:24.0

no matter who you are.

0:26.0

Protect yourself from scammers.

0:27.0

Visit Scamsmart from the Financial Conduct Authority.

0:33.0

Ten years ago, people actually had to physically go somewhere,

0:36.0

waiting to queue, hand over cash, and the landing landscape was similarly quite cash-based,

0:42.0

not technological. It would take many days, if not weeks, to get along.

0:52.0

Welcome to Heart Elane Money to Strangers, with Brendan Lagrange.

0:56.0

I've lived on three continents and visited 50 countries as a tourist.

1:00.0

So I feel like I've got a pretty decent grasp on world geography.

1:04.0

But to Jiki-Star, that's a country I'd struggle to place on a map.

1:08.0

Even now, after looking it up, if it weren't for the Caspian Sea,

1:12.0

I'm not sure I'd be able to pick it out if you shuffled Kyrgyzstan,

1:15.0

took many stars and Uzbekistan around a bit, in that corner,

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