Helping students to achieve their financial goals, with Ethan Fraenkel

And of course, very often a financial product, or some finances around this will be the consequences of what you're trying to buy or get in your life. And so that's really the approach that we've taken with our algorithm as well, that allows us to predict how much money a customer will earn over the next five years. And we've developed in essence, a platform on progress that allows users to set up financial goals and find personalised paths to either earn safe abode the way to the goals. And basically at ProGrad we use, as I mentioned, our proprietary models that matches users with solutions from different providers that could help them achieve their targets, including side hustles, flexible work saving accounts, credit card, car finance and many more products.

All of this with the idea that a customer never comes to progress looking for a specific product. Unlike other websites, where you come to your website, looking for specific credit card specific alone, we really think this approach will want to educate young people on different financial topics, and then really serve them with the right solution for their problems or for their goal. So customer can come to ProGrad, tell us 'ProGrad, I'm looking for £5,000 to buy a car'. Awesome, how can we help you get this? Yes, car financing is one option but can we maybe have a combination of you earning a bit of money through one of our partners, on top of you saving a bit of money and you borrowing a bit of money? All of this will allow you to find the most optimal way for you to have a solution to your needs.

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