Matt Flannery

Co-Founder and CEO, Branch · 1 appearance on the record.

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Matt Flannery is the co-founder and former CEO of Kiva, a peer-to-peer microfinance crowdfunding platform launched in 2005. In 2015, he co-founded Branch International, a mobile-first digital bank providing credit and financial services across emerging markets.

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Flannery: Mobile apps, not plastic cards, will power emerging market credit

“Credit cards just aren't going to spread. You know, the middle class of India is not going to have plastic credit cards. Nigerians are not going to have Visa cards or MasterCards anytime soon, because there's nowhere to swipe them, and people can't get credit …”

Matt Flannery Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 14:42 a16z Podcast | Fintech for the People

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Flannery: AI models make better loan underwriting decisions than humans

“When you're using deep learning or artificial intelligence, different methods of machine learning, it's really hard to articulate exactly why someone got exactly this loan, and robots would be much better at making that decision than people.”

Matt Flannery Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 9:47 a16z Podcast | Fintech for the People

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Flannery: Feature phones will soon become hard to buy in emerging markets

“Everyone's getting on smartphones, and it's going to be really hard to buy a feature phone in the coming years.”

Matt Flannery Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 14:17 a16z Podcast | Fintech for the People

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Episode	Date	Speaking time
a16z Podcast \| Fintech for the People	Jan 2, 2019	3m

Matt Flannery

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