Mission Lane’s approach to helping people access credit with Shane Holdaway
- Shane Holdaway spent close to two decades working in large traditional financial institutions.
- As CEO of Mission Lane, he's serving a million customers that banks tend to overlook.

With all the fintech and focus on the unbanked and underbanked, there are still tens of millions of Americans who lack access to mainstream financial services. Those are Mission Lane’s customers. A spinoff of LendUp, the firm’s credit card is the first product in a portfolio designed to address this demographic’s financial needs and wants.
Shane Holdaway is Mission Lane CEO. After a career on the other side of the aisle, running businesses for large traditional financial institutions, he’s charged with leading the company into its next stage of maturity. We talk about his personal transition from finance to fintech and how that informs his work. We talk about why the financial industry has failed so many and what he and his firm plan to launch and grow in the future.
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