
Patricia Giankas
Founder and CEO of Score-Up, senior female in tech (SFT), and Canadian credit-industry veteran with over 20 years of experience in banking, mortgage brokering, credit coaching, and insolvency counselling.
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Jul 28, 2026
E171: Althea Samuels & Patricia Giankas on credit and raising capital as an immigrant woman
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6:24DozieHOST
And then instantly, almost immediately, you start to destroy your credit before you even actually needed to do stuff like, you know, starting a business.

Patricia GiankasGUEST
But can I give you a little bit of a history about credit? So back in the 70s, when I started to do credit working at a bank, we did what is called ABCD client, you score the clients.

Patricia GiankasGUEST
And In the 90s, then we started to back and kept the clients where we got, you know, we have a list of numbers we use to calculate how long you've lived at your home address, how long you've worked at your place of employment, and several factors.

Patricia GiankasGUEST
However, back at the bank and working at finance company, we can manipulate it if we like that person.

Patricia GiankasGUEST
Because again, there's no numbers that you can basically have like the credit score now.
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19:30DozieHOST
And if you don't handle it well, I think in the end, it affects whether you get funding or not, right?