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Ep 65: From Pilots to P&L:
This episode of Money Majlis dives into how banks and regulators can finally break out of “pilot purgatory” and turn AI from hype into hard P&L impact, with one of the world’s most influential applied AI leaders, Alexander Sukharevsky, CEO of QuantumBlack, AI by McKinsey.
Ep 64: What is this song?
What does it take to build an iconic technology company before the technology ecosystem required to support it even exists? In this compelling episode of Money Majlis, Suvo Sarkar speaks with Dhiraj Mukherjee, co-founder of Shazam, investor, speaker and lifelong student of technological disruption.
Ep 63: From Pipes to Platforms:
What really sits behind the booming world of global wealth? In this episode of Money Majlis, Suvo Sarkar sits down with Annabel Spring, Global CEO of Allfunds, to unpack the invisible infrastructure that now powers how trillions of dollars move across borders, banks and platforms.
From Hong Kong to Dubai to Dublin, a growing share of the world’s mutual funds, ETFs and alternatives are being manufactured in one place, distributed in another, and serviced on technology stacks most investors never see. Annabel runs one of the world’s largest B2B wealthtech ecosystems, connecting more than three thousand fund groups and asset managers to hundreds of banks, private banks and wealth managers across sixty-plus markets, with close to 1.8 trillion euros in assets running through the pipes.
Ep 62: Raising a Decacorn:
What happens when you combine a decacorn founder at the heart of the crypto infrastructure revolution with the original entrepreneur in the family who quietly built software long before “cloud” and “SaaS” became buzzwords?
In this special episode of Money Majlis, we sit down with the son–mother duo of Nikil and Usha Viswanathan to explore both the future of financial plumbing and the values that shape the people building it.
Ep 61: AI Earthquake, Quantum Tsunami:
What happens when a commercial pilot obsessed with time value, a technologist who helped build Dell and Compaq in Asia, and a board-level strategist for some of the world’s most respected banks and insurers roll into one career?
In this episode of Money Majlis, Tokyo-based investor, general partner and board member Steve Monaghan joins Suvo in Dubai to map out a brutally honest, deeply practical view of where banking and insurance go next in the age of AI, quantum computing and streaming finance.
Ep 60: Embedded, Invisible, Inevitable:
What happens when credit becomes invisible, intelligent and truly embedded into our daily lives? In this episode of Money Majlis, Suvo Sarkar sits down in Dubai with Gaurav Kumar (GK), founder and CEO of Indian unicorn Yubi, the AI-powered operating system for debt markets. Together they unpack how a company born in Chennai during the pandemic is quietly rewiring how money moves for consumers, MSMEs and banks from India to MENA, Southeast Asia and now the US.
Ep 59: Breaking Through the Noise:
What if the most powerful force in business is not capital, technology or strategy, but the simple human act of one person truly reaching another?
In this episode of Money Majlis, Suvo Sarkar is joined by Sally Susman – advisor, advocate and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of “Breaking Through: Communicating to Open Minds, Move Hearts and Change the World” - for a masterclass in how leaders can use words to move people, build trust and change outcomes in a world that is increasingly sceptical of institutions. For 18 years, Sally served as Executive Vice President and Chief Corporate Affairs Officer at Pfizer, guiding three CEOs through proxy battles, leadership transitions, political firestorms and the most scrutinised vaccine launch in modern history, after senior roles at American Express, Estée Lauder and in the Clinton administration.
Ep 58: Private Equity to Public Purpose:
What happens when one of India’s most successful private equity investors walks away at the peak of his career to spend the rest of his life building the country’s human capital?
In this episode of Money Majlis, Suvo sits down in New Delhi with Ashish Dhawan – founder of ChrysCapital, Ashoka University, Central Square Foundation and The Convergence Foundation - to unpack a remarkable journey from Wall Street returns to nation-building outcomes.
Ep 57: Rebuilding a Bank in the Age of AI:
What does it really take to rebuild a bank from the inside out-without breaking it, and without losing what made it trusted in the first place?
In this episode of Money Majlis, Suvo Sarkar sits down with his former colleague and co architect of Emirates NBD’s transformation, Miguel Rio Tinto, Group Chief Digital and Information Officer at Emirates NBD. Together, they revisit an eight year journey that turned a commercially strong but technologically constrained bank into one of the region’s most advanced digital institutions, and now a live testbed for large scale AI in financial services.
Ep 56: 25 Years, 500 Million Visas:
Visa outsourcing is one of those invisible pipes of the global economy-critical to how we travel, work and study abroad, yet rarely understood as an industry in its own right. In this special episode of Money Majlis to celebrate the 25th anniversary of VFS Global, founder and CEO Zubin Karkaria takes us inside the company he conceptualised in 2001 and built into the world’s largest visa and citizen services platform, now handling over 100,000 applications a day and more than 500 million since inception.
Ep 55: Amplify, Adapt, Advance:
What happens when one of the world’s most respected AI entrepreneurs sits down with a veteran banker to talk about the future of work, banking, and inclusion in the age of intelligent machines? In this episode of Money Majlis, Suvo is joined by Dr Ayesha Khanna, co founder and CEO of Addo and founder of the new education and media platform Amplify, to explore how AI is moving from hype to hard results in boardrooms, smart cities, and everyday careers.
Ep 54: Innovation, Inclusion & Intelligence:
What happens when one of the world’s most dynamic payments corridors becomes a live laboratory for the future of money? In this episode of Money Majlis, host Suvo Sarkar sits down with Dr. Dimitrios Dosis, President for Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa at Mastercard, to explore how technology, AI and cybersecurity are rewriting the rules of how we pay, get paid and stay protected across more than 80 markets. In this richly layered conversation, he makes the case for why this region is not just catching up with the rest of the world - it is outpacing it.
Ep 53. Inside MENA’s New Payments Powerhouse:
Network International’s merger with Magnati has quietly created a new payments powerhouse at the heart of the Middle East and Africa’s digital economy. In this episode of Money Majlis, Suvo Sarkar sits down with Murat Cagri Suzer, Network’s Group CEO, to unpack what that really means for banks, merchants and consumers across 50+ markets.
Ep 52. Wio, Women and What’s Next:
In this episode of Money Majlis with Suvo Sarkar, we look at the rise of digital banking in the UAE through the lens of one person’s journey: Amina Taher, Chief Marketing Officer of Wio Bank.
Ep 51. Flying high:
The Season 3 opener of Money Majlis puts you right in the cockpit of Dubai’s aviation story, with Paul Griffiths, CEO of Dubai Airports, as your guide. He isn’t just running DXB and DWC; he is shaping how a city’s ambition takes flight, turning runways and terminals into engines of GDP, jobs and global connectivity.

