Lending innovation in Finland, with Kim Ahola (Creditstar)

<p>When I moved to Scandinavia, Finland quickly became one of my favourite countries to work in. That much colder than my home in Copenhagen, it was where I first experienced 'proper snow'; visiting Helsinki before Moscow, meant it was where I got my first up-close experience of Russian-Byzantine architecture and a sense of being truly far from home; and thanks to its stoic people, it taught me to present to an audience with near zero interaction, a skill that served me well when Covid lockdowns meant I was suddenly doing all my webinars to a muted computer screen 🤣</p><br><p>So it was a delight to be returning for this episode, at least conceptually, as I speak to my old colleague <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/kimahola/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Kim Ahola</a> about his work at <a href="www.creditstar.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Creditstar </a>and the emergence of tech-first digital lending in Finland and the broader region.</p><br><p><br></p><p>You'll find Creditstar at their home page (www.creditstar.com/) or if you want to find the Finnish business directly, that's at https://www.creditstar.fi/</p><br><p><br></p><p>Kim also mentioned Monefit, that's at www.monefit.com (and coming to the UK soon at https://www.monefit.co.uk/)</p><br><p><br></p><p>Kim and Creditstar are both on LinkedIn, at www.linkedin.com/in/kimahola/ and https://www.linkedin.com/company/creditstar-group-as/ respectively</p><br><p><br></p><p>You can learn more about myself, Brendan le Grange, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/brendanlegrange/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">on my LinkedIn page</a> (feel free to connect), my action-adventure novels are on <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0133U3HGC/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_6VS5451P6XEAX61A9G5J" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Amazon, some versions even for free</a>, and my work with ConfirmU and our gamified psychometric scores is at <a href="https://confirmu.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://confirmu.com/