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Patricia Giankas

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.

Jul 28, 2026

DozieHOST
6:24
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.
6:34
That's great.
6:35
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.
6:49
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.
7:06
And you back and kept the clients.
7:08
However, back at the bank and working at finance company, we can manipulate it if we like that person.
7:15
Because again, there's no numbers that you can basically have like the credit score now.

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DozieHOST
19:30
And if you don't handle it well, I think in the end, it affects whether you get funding or not, right?

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