Fintech Takes x TruStage presents Lending, Unbundled Ep 3: Revenue at Stake

Welcome to Lending, Unbundled, a new series from Fintech Takes, sponsored by our friends at TruStage.

The series traces how consumer lending went from a single institution that handled everything to a modular value chain of specialized providers, each owning one piece of the loan, and asks what lending, unbundled, has cost the industry along the way.

In Episode 3, my cohost Bjoern Nordmann (VP of New Market Development at TruStage) and I sit down with Aditya Khandekar, CRO of Corridor Platforms, to explore what happens when lending goes modular, but accountability still needs to be end-to-end (not just owned at one point in the loan lifecycle).

When a borrower hits hardship, the originator, servicer, and funding source may all have different incentives. But the borrower doesn’t care who technically owns the loan; they blame the brand they can see.

That’s why governance can’t sit at the end of the process, waiting to validate what already happened. Aditya’s argument is that governed decisioning can become the connective tissue: a shared evidence layer across acquisition, servicing, delinquency management, compliance, and customer management.

Credit risk can move downstream. Reputation risk cannot.

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This episode is brought to you by TruStage.

TruStage is a financially strong insurance and financial services provider, built on the philosophy of people helping people, meeting the needs of middle-market consumers and the businesses that serve them since day one.

We believe a brighter financial future should be accessible to everyone, and our products and solutions help people confidently make financial decisions that work for them at every stage of life. Visit https://trustage.com for more information.

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