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Money Majlis with Suvo Sarkar

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About Money Majlis & Suvo Sarkar

Money Majlis is a fortnightly podcast for leaders, builders and thinkers shaping the future of banking, fintech and technology in the Middle East. Since launching in April 2024, it has become the region’s first show of its kind - reaching listeners across 140 countries and more than 1,400 cities by pairing serious industry insight with the warmth and candour of a majlis-style conversation.

Suvo Sarkar, host of Money Majlis, in a black and white portrait with hands clasped beneath the chin

The host

Meet Suvo Sarkar

Experience
38 years in banking
Now
Founder & CEO, 3D Advisory
Founded
Liv. - the region’s first digital bank
Advises
McKinsey, Mastercard, e& money

Suvo Sarkar is a veteran banker with 38 years of experience across Asia and the Middle East, spanning consumer banking, payments and wealth management at institutions including Citibank, Standard Chartered, National Bank of Abu Dhabi and Emirates NBD. As Senior Executive Vice President and Group Head of Retail Banking and Private Banking at Emirates NBD - the most profitable bank in the Middle East - he oversaw businesses generating roughly $3 billion in annual revenue and a customer base of over 2 million across five countries. He also founded Liv., the Middle East’s first digital lifestyle bank.

Suvo’s leadership has been recognized with the Retail Banker International Lifetime Achievement Award, the MIT Sloan Review "Digital Leader of the Middle East" title, and the Asian Banker’s Retail Banker of the Year award. Today, he is Founder & CEO of 3D Advisory, a boutique consultancy focused on digitization, data and design in financial services, and serves as Senior Advisor to McKinsey & Company, Executive Advisor to Mastercard, Vice Chairman of Wealthbrix Capital Partners, and a Non-Executive Board Member of e& money - alongside advisory board roles spanning Yubi, NewBridge Fintech and Ektar Technologies. He is a gold medalist from IIT (ISM) Dhanbad and holds an MBA from IIM Calcutta, with executive leadership training from Stanford, INSEAD and Oxford.

On Money Majlis, Suvo draws on nearly four decades inside the boardroom to ask sharper questions, connect strategy with execution, and surface the human stories behind leadership, innovation and change.

Why This Show Exists

Money Majlis was created to elevate the quality of conversation around money, banking, technology and innovation in a region that had never had a dedicated platform for it. The idea is simple: bring together exceptional people, unpack consequential ideas, and leave listeners with insight they can apply in business, leadership and life - and channel a meaningful share of the show’s profits into causes that matter.

What Makes Money Majlis Different

Money Majlis is built on four things you won’t find together anywhere else in the region’s podcast landscape: deep, long-form conversations instead of surface-level interviews; a genuinely regional lens on global shifts in banking, fintech and technology; a host with real operating experience running these businesses at scale rather than commentating from the sidelines; and a social-impact model - the GiveCard movement - that turns every episode into tangible giving for causes like the Nepal Red Cross Society, Dubai Cares, Save the Children, the Rudy A Menon Foundation, Educate Girls and WWF.

Reach & Impact

79

episodes released

Launched April 2024 · Season 3 underway

Listeners in 140 countries and 1,400+ cities

"Best New Podcast 2024" - PodClub Popular Choice Awards