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Camilo Concha, Founder & CEO of LendingUSA

Enjoying the podcast? Don’t miss out on future episodes! Please hit that subscribe button on Apple, Spotify, or your favorite podcast platform to stay updated with our latest content. Thank you for your support! The point of sale lending space is really interesting to me. Even though point of sale platforms are providing unsecured consumer loans they…

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Levi King, Co-Founder & CEO of Nav

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Ken Rees, Chairman & CEO of Elevate

Enjoying the podcast? Don’t miss out on future episodes! Please hit that subscribe button on Apple, Spotify, or your favorite podcast platform to stay updated with our latest content. Thank you for your support! The short term loan space has unique challenges. There is often little to no credit data on the borrowers which makes underwriting difficult.…

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Ethan Senturia, Co-Founder & CEO of Dealstruck

Enjoying the podcast? Don’t miss out on future episodes! Please hit that subscribe button on Apple, Spotify, or your favorite podcast platform to stay updated with our latest content. Thank you for your support! We are doing something a bit different in this episode of the Lend Academy Podcast. This episode is part entrepreneurial story, that didn’t…

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Brian Dally, Co-Founder & CEO of Groundfloor

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Charles Egly, Co-Founder & CEO of Younited Credit

Enjoying the podcast? Don’t miss out on future episodes! Please hit that subscribe button on Apple, Spotify, or your favorite podcast platform to stay updated with our latest content. Thank you for your support! We have not seen much in the way of global expansion when it comes to online lending platforms. Younited Credit is the largest…

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Miles Reidy, Partner at QED Investors on Regtech

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Simon Champ of P2PGI and Pollen Street Capital

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Gustavo Vinacua, CEO of BBVA

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Rory Eakin, Co-Founder & COO of CircleUp

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