Faisel Rahman's guest appearances

Faisel Rahman

The Responsible Finance Podcast

The New Ism

Spotlight

Michael Sheen

Matt Smith

John Elkington

David Greig

Chuka Umunna

Andrew Murray

Peter Lavelle

Pam Warhurst

Karen Davies

James Perry

Patrick Holden

Eric Rice

Safia Minney

Jeroo Billimoria

Kyle Zimmer

OwlTail

If you want to disrupt an industry, learn from the best. Exporting a fairer economic ethos from Bangladesh and applying it to the UK market, Faisel Rahman, founder of Fair Finance, is dismantling the notorious payday lending scene in the UK. Faisel discusses taking inspiration from microfinance to build trust and reduce poverty. 

If you want to disrupt an industry, learn from the best. Exporting a fairer economic ethos from Bangladesh and applying it to the UK market, Faisel Rahman, founder of Fair Finance, is dismantling the notorious payday lending scene in the UK. Faisel discusses taking inspiration from microfinance to build trust and reduce poverty.

Episode 6: Faisel Rahman – Better finance options for all

Our guest this week is Faisel Rahman, founder and managing director of Fair Finance, which offers a range of high quality, affordable financial products and services to those who would otherwise be financially excluded. He talks with Mel about scaling the impact of social enterprise, the importance of trust, and mitigating the issues that arise from a society that demands speed, not thought.

5: Faisel Rahman

Faisel Rahman is CEO and founder of Fair Finance, a social enterprise tackling financial exclusion which has built a reputation for entrepreneurial growth, social and commercial rigour. Faisal talks about how working with Grameen and the World Bank in Bangladesh sowed a seed that led to Fair Finance, and how understanding what makes high cost credit providers successful leads to designing products that people actually want. Millions of underbanked people are either treated badly by the mainstream or exploited by non-mainstream providers. Responsible Finance providers and credit unions should aim to put high cost lenders out of business by being a better alternative and ensuring they are customers' first choice. Data disclosure and transparency features largely in this episode too. And responsible finance providers which can prove their social impact and their commercial viability must increase their ambitions of scale – high cost credit is a multi-million pound industry.

Faisel Rahman is CEO and founder of Fair Finance, a social enterprise tackling financial exclusion which has built a reputation for entrepreneurial growth, social and commercial rigour. Faisal talks about how working with Grameen and the World Bank in Bangladesh sowed a seed that led to Fair Finance, and how understanding what makes high cost credit providers successful leads to designing products that people actually want. Millions of underbanked people are either treated badly by the mainstream or exploited by non-mainstream providers. Responsible Finance providers and credit unions should aim to put high cost lenders out of business by being a better alternative and ensuring they are customers' first choice. Data disclosure and transparency features largely in this episode too. And responsible finance providers which can prove their social impact and their commercial viability must increase their ambitions of scale – high cost credit is a multi-million pound industry.

9 Faisel Rahman: Fair Finance