Welcome to Money Majlis
Welcome to the podcast that’s redefining conversations on banking, finance, technology and marketing. Exploring topics that are current, consequential and controversial, it is a fortnightly deep-dive with leaders, thinkers and innovators by the veteran banker Suvo Sarkar.
Latest Episodes
Featured Episodes
Ep 31: Pivoting from a telco to a techco
In this episode of Money Majlis, Suvo Sarkar goes on a journey with Khalifa Alshamsi, CEO of e& life and e& international, who explains the rationale and opportunity of e& expanding into financial services, lifestyle, entertainment and cybersecurity.
Can a company be an incumbent and challenger at the same time? How do you diversify into new industries and target markets? Does a bold new strategy require a fully new mindset of “going for more”? Is collaboration with partners the way forward for successful companies?
Ep 30. India: the start-up centre of the world?
In this riveting episode of Money Majlis, host Suvo Sarkar travels to Bangalore for a debate with the legendary T.V. Mohandas Pai, a trailblazer in finance, technology, education, and philanthropy.
Known for his transformative contributions as the former CFO of Infosys and as a venture capitalist and chairman of Manipal Global Education, Pai shares his insights on navigating the intersections of business, technology, and social impact.
Ep 25. The future of investing
In this first episode of Season 2 of Money Majlis, we bring you a priceless conversation with Mark Mobius, the “Indiana Jones of emerging markets investing”.
Is the asset management industry in decline? How have ETFs revolutionised investing? Why is active investing better than passive? What matters more for an asset manager - size or speed? How does private equity feed into public markets?
Mark delves into the history of emerging markets and the describes the uphill task he faced in the initial years to convince his company and his customers to invest in markets like China, India, South Africa and Latin America.
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Meet the Host
Suvo Sarkar
Suvo Sarkar is an international banker with a vintage of 37 years in consumer banking, payments and wealth management. His last role was to oversee the global retail banking and private banking businesses at Emirates NBD, the most profitable bank in the Middle East. He is also the founder of the region's first digital bank Liv. He has won numerous awards for his work, including the Retail Banker International Lifetime Achievement Award.
Suvo currently runs his own advisory business that focuses on data, digitization and design of financial services. His clients include McKinsey & Co, Mastercard and IBM. He is based in Dubai and hosts a popular fortnightly podcast called Money Majlis on banking, technology and marketing.
Contact Suvo Sarkar: suvo@moneymajlis.com
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Only the first 50 listeners who visit moneymajlis.com after each episode will have the opportunity to redeem a $50 GiveCard for one of the six pre-selected causes.