Flavor physics is highly sensitive to beyond the standard model (BSM) physics and vice versa.
In this talk we demonstrate this explicitly in the example of bottom-up leptoquark extensions of the Standard Model.
Recent anomalies in rare B-meson decays into leptons hinting at lepton non-universality are addressed,
and correlations with charm physics are discussed.
The talk is based on recent works arxiv:1408.1627, 1503.01084 and 1510.00311, all hep-ph.