Issuing £1 billion on funding SMEs | Lara Gilman, iwoca

Searching for Mana with Lloyd Wahed · Jul 21, 2020 · 58m

4:10 how was iwoca in 2014 at Series A and the power of people behind creating products and innovations (guest Mimi Nguyen)

7:21 iwoca in 2020 funding last year over 1 billion. Culture being a big part of iwoca

9:45 Mission of SME lending and what is iwocaPay?

22:45 How is technology supporting the underwriting process? The balance between machines and humans in the decision process.

24:50 How did COVID-19 affected iwoca and it’s clients?

30:00 Fintech 2.0

32:32 Lara’s background and what brought her to fintech

39:15 Lara’s mana - what has shaped her career

48:27 What makes a good researcher?