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Familiar but digital, with Rohit Bhargava (BOMTech)

Familiar but digital, with Rohit Bhargava (BOMTech)

FromHow to Lend Money to Strangers


Familiar but digital, with Rohit Bhargava (BOMTech)

FromHow to Lend Money to Strangers

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Length:
20 minutes
Released:
Jul 6, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

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When I lived in Hong Kong, which was not all that long ago, there were these rather complicated-looking ATMs around town, covered with instructions to help you correctly feed a passbook into them without the staples causing problems. I never actually saw a passbook in the flesh, but they were explained to me as a paper-based statement of record that you updated as needed, like an automated receipt stamp after a significant deposit or withdrawal, rather than the statements the bank sent to you on month end. Since I had internet banking, I never looked any deeper. But not everyone has internet banking.Rohit Bhargava started his career in banking the year I was born, so he experienced passbooks in their prime, and he was running a retail bank in Malaysia when they were phased out. The arrival of text messages had made them less popular for most customers, and now only a shrinking segment of less tech-savvy consumers relied on them. As a result, the economics went underwater from the bank’s point of view. Rohit realised that, so he helped the bank convert to monthly statements. But Rohit also realised that that shrinking segment relied on their passbooks. Relied. So when he retired, he set his mind to solving that problem with the BOMTech. I think of it as a Kindle, but for your loan data.BOMTech is Banking on Mobile + Tech so you can learn more at https://bankingonmobile.com/Or reach out to Rohit directly on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/rohit-bhargava-849aab5/) or through me if you’d like to have a chat.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-24If 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 this site.Regards, Brendan Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Released:
Jul 6, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

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A podcast about lending in all its forms and in all the markets in which it takes place, however diverse those markets may be. In fact, it’s a case of ‘the more diverse the better’ with guests from Manila to Moscow, from Mumbai to Madrid, and from Shenzen to Chicago.I am the host, Brendan le Grange, and I have spent the last twenty years working in - or alongside - lenders across Africa, Asia, and Europe and I’ll be using that experience to find and learn from industry insiders in a series of weekly interviews.Sometimes, those interviews discuss the inspiration behind a new start-up, sometimes they look back at a career spent at the lending coal face, and sometimes they explore where the latest technologies might take us. In the end, if it shapes a lending decision, we’ll talk about how.You can join us every Thursday here, or wherever you prefer to find your podcasts. And you can find written transcripts and more content can be found at www.HowToLendMoneytoStrangers.show Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.