Turning a customer obsession into retail credit, with Regan Adams (RCS)

How to Lend Money to Strangers

Brendan le Grange

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

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🗓️ 9 February 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

"Retailers are obsessed about consumers." And it is by leveraging the fruits of this obsession, their understanding, that retail creditors can take on the bigger, more cheaply-funded banks

RCS is found at https://rcs.co.za/ and they're on LinkedIn, too (plus Facebook and Instagram)

Mobicred is at https://mobicred.co.za/

Read more about the RCS rising star tennis academy at https://www.tennissa.co.za/w/play/rising-star-tennis (or click here to read the announcement and at see a snap of Regan's formidable forehand in action)

Forest Whitaker's Peace and Development Initiative is an important one, and can be found at https://www.wpdi.org/ (for more on RCS's role with it, click here)

Piketberg where Regan found himself as a straight-out-of-university engineer, is a small town about a hundred miles north of Cape Town. It might not have been the most exciting location for a young man to start his career, but it seems to have embraced active tourism - so if you're looking for some mountain biking within reach of the (ice cold) sea and some exciting wine producers, check out their tourism offerings. Travel a little bit further up the coast and you'll find Lambert's Bay, where I once worked at the Crayfish Festival but there's a whole different story in there 😂

I tease Sam a little for his tennis here, he is remarkably talented when it comes to brand health tracking, so look him up and tell him I sent you if that's something you need.

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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0:00.0	Sains travels the globe looking for companies that not only pay healthy dividends today,
0:05.9	but are also investing in their businesses to pay higher dividends in years to come.
0:10.5	So if you're looking for long-term income and capital growth, join our World Tour.
0:16.2	Sains is managed by Bayley Gifford, the UK's leading investment trust manager.
0:21.0	A key information document is available by visiting BayleyGifford.com
0:25.6	As with any investment, capital is at risk and income not guaranteed.
0:32.6	Retailers are obsessed about consumers. They're obsessed about the market.
0:37.9	They understand their customers to a level that I don't think many other industries do.
0:47.6	Sam Davis is an enigma of a sportsman.
0:50.4	It's something of a chain-smoking Clark Kent of a character from my youth he was,
0:56.9	and he had suddenly, at a school sports day, running the fastest first half of an 800-meter race any of us had ever seen.
1:03.7	Unfortunately, he also possesses the world's least resilient knees,
1:07.3	and one of them gave that, leaving him to hop most the way home.
1:11.4	And it was another one of those knees that put pay to his football career,
1:15.0	thanks to a pre-war map injury, which left him with tennis.
1:19.1	Unfortunately, we'll never know how good he could have got,
1:21.6	because the only invitation to a big match he ever got, at least my knowledge,
1:25.8	was when the bus driver once challenged him to a friendly match.
1:29.3	Like I leave for the almost certainly more talented kids of today,
1:32.8	RCS has been investing heavily in grassroots tennis in South Africa,
1:37.0	and emboldening talent development pipelines.
1:39.2	Welcome to How to Learn Many Two Strangers, with Brendan Lagrange.
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