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Gustavo Vinacua, CEO of BBVA

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Rory Eakin, Co-Founder & COO of CircleUp

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Ray Sturm, Co-Founder & CEO of AlphaFlow

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LendIt Europe 2017 Preview

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Scott Robinson, Founder and VP of Plug and Play Fintech

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Andy Hinrichs, Co-Founder & CEO of AutoGravity

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Misha Esipov, Co-Founder & CEO of Nova Credit

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Patricia Voorhees, Director at The Alta Group

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Scott Zoldi, Chief Analytics Officer of FICO

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Bo Brustkern and Emmanuel Marot

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! When it comes to marketplace lending tools for retail investors there have really been two games in town: NSR Invest and LendingRobot. Both…