S2E12 — Life, Love & Liquidity: Finance, Funny and the View from Fifty
Click here to watch a video of this episode. Two best friends from an accounting class in Ohio, both turning fifty this year. One spent the next thirty years inside the world's largest banks. The othe...
29 Apr 1h 15min
S2E11 — Pit Wall, Podium and Pie: Q1 2026 Fintech Scorecard
Click here to watch a video of this episode. Ninety days ago we made ten fintech predictions on this podcast for 2026. Today we graded them in public. Four have already played out fully. Three are dir...
21 Apr 20min
The $1.8B Bridge: The Mastercard-BVNK Deal Rewiring Card Networks
Click here to watch a video of this episode. Mastercard paid $1.8 billion for BVNK, the largest stablecoin acquisition in history. Four months earlier, Coinbase walked away from a $2 billion deal for ...
13 Apr 27min
India's Wellness Paradox: The Sumaya 7 | S02E09
India has 100 million diabetics. 47% of the population is overweight. And we are the most wellness-educated generation in history. That's the paradox.Sumaya Dalmia has been transforming bodies and bui...
7 Apr 59min
PayPal's Last Stand: The Rise, The Coup & The $300 Billion Fall of Fintech's OG
In September 2000, Elon Musk boarded a plane for his honeymoon. By the time he landed in Sydney, he was no longer CEO. His co-founders, Peter Thiel and Max Levchin, had staged a midnight coup, scrappe...
2 Mar 29min
The Last Family Portrait: Schroders, Nuveen & the Death of Mid-Sized Active Management | £9.9bn Deal Autopsy
The Schroder family survived Napoleon, two World Wars, the fall of merchant banking, and the rise of passive investing. On February 12, 2026, they said "cash me out" — agreeing to sell their 222-year-...
15 Feb 29min
Healthy Money: How to Build a "Moat of Convenience" in Modern Banking
Ever wondered if banks are just giant dodos stuck in legacy land, or could they actually get hip and healthy? Well, Alastair Campbell is here to dish out the secrets of making money healthy again, min...
11 Feb 48min
