Fixing vendor finance, with Alex Armitage

<p>For the last 20 years, I've been delivering lending projects across the credit life-cycle and around the world, but always focused on the consumer. The only time I've come into contact with small business lending is on the very fringes when we've used a business owners personal credit report to estimate the risk of their new business. Or, in other words, I've only ever seen half of the picture.</p> <p>I started to address this <a href='https://www.howtolendmoneytostrangers.show/episodes/episode-25'>in Episode 25</a>, with Alek Koenig, but there’s so much more to learn. So today we’re back talking about lending to SMEs, with Alex Armitage. Alex is the founder and CEO of Nectarine Credit, a Canadian fintech that’s built a marketplace that brings together borrowers and lenders in the vendor finance arena, taking a process that used to take weeks down into one that can take only a few hours.</p> <p>You can learn more about <a href='https://www.nectarinecredit.com/'>Nectarine Credit on their home page by clicking here</a></p> <p>You can find <a href='https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexarmitage/'>Alex on his LinkedIn page here</a></p> <p>You can learn more about myself, Brendan le Grange, <a href='https://www.linkedin.com/in/brendanlegrange/'>on my LinkedIn page</a> (and while you're there, send me a connection request)</p> <p>If you have any feedback, questions, or if you would like to participate in the show, please feel free to reach out to me at <a>brendan@howtolendmoneytostrangers.show</a></p> <p>A full written transcript with timestamps can be found on <a href='https://www.howtolendmoneytostrangers.show/episodes/episode-12'>HowtoLendMoneytoStrangers.Show</a></p> <p>You can also find my <a href='https://www.amazon.com/Brendan-le-Grange/e/B013A8R876'>pulpy action-adventure novels in all their formats on Amazon</a></p>