Ali Hamriti, CEO & co-founder of Rollee, considers how businesses can create fairer financial products in the latest episode of Demystifying Tech.



The growing army of ‘gig economy’ freelance workers across sectors including taxis, deliveries, care, journalism, public relations and coding may have flexibility and independence, but an alarming 70% of them have been denied a loan despite having good credit scores. More than half have missed out on opportunities such as buying a new home due to being declined by building societies and banks.



Hamriti witnessed this growing problem first-hand while working in FinTech and resolved to help change the out-of-date financial system and serve the changing employment landscape.



His startup Rollee aims to improve financial inclusion for self-employed workers through an open finance solution.



The episode:



• Discusses the problems faced by those operating in the gig economy (01:35 )

• Explains how Rollee is helping them to access products such as credit and mortgages (05:35 )

• The importance of the UK market to French firm Rollee (15:23 )

• Reveals plans to expand its data sources (18:43 )

• Advises startups on how to improve financial inclusivity - 'Tech Takeaways' (22:17 )