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The $200 Billion Blind Spot: Why Community Lenders Keep Failing Small Business Owners

"What if the real problem with small business lending isn't the banks, but that nobody's actually built the system around the business owner?"

Charles Kollo, Head of Innovation at BBIF Capital (a Florida-based CDFI), sits down with David Ponraj to discuss why the $200 billion community lending ecosystem is ripe for disruption. Drawing from his experience building a digital bank in Sub-Saharan Africa and working across Côte d'Ivoire, Zimbabwe, and Lesotho, Charles brings a rare global lens to modernizing the U.S. CDFI space.