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.
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Featured Episodes
Ep XTRA 8 with Naila Al Khaja: The bold cinematic journey of of Nayla AlKhaja
Episode XTRA 8 of Money Majlis welcomes the trailblazing Nayla Al Khaja, the UAE’s first female film director, award-winning producer, and relentless advocate for women in the arts.
In this raw and revelatory conversation, Nayla shares her groundbreaking journey from a fine arts aficionado and gallery owner to a cinematic visionary whose bold storytelling redefines Emirati and Arab cinema.
Drawing inspiration from her challenging childhood, Nayla tackles societal taboos and mental health with unflinching honesty, refusing to treat these subjects as mere themes but as calls to action for dialogue and healing.
Ep 42 with Brett King: Futurist Brett King on the new economics of banking
In this electrifying episode of Money Majlis, Suvo Sarkar sits down with Brett King, the world’s most cited financial futurist, to unpack the seismic shifts reshaping global banking. Fresh from hosting the inaugural Dubai Futurists X Summit, Brett joins Suvo in the heart of Dubai to explore the end of physical branches, the rise of AI-powered finance, and the cultural fault lines between legacy banks and digital challengers.
Brett’s new book Branch Tomorrow forecasts that half of US bank branches will vanish by 2030, a seismic shift mirrored by trends across the Middle East, Asia, and Europe.
Ep 46: Beyond Apps: Why the Next Tech Revolution Must Tackle Energy, Food, and Poverty
In this riveting new episode of Money Majlis, Suvo Sarkar welcomes Pablos Holman, the legendary hacker, inventor, and futurist whose creativity transforms science fiction into the fabric of our daily lives. Suvo engages Pablos in a conversation that reveals why the world’s biggest crises require not just incremental “apps,” but audacious, moonshot technologies that redefine what’s possible for humanity.
Pablos’s career is a journey across innovation’s wildest frontiers: from pioneering cryptocurrency in the early 1990s and building spaceships at Blue Origin with Jeff Bezos, to serving as chief provocateur at Intellectual Ventures Lab, where he and his teams invent everything from nuclear reactors powered by waste to laser-based systems for eradicating malaria mosquitoes.
Ep 47: Fintech for the Many: Tariq bin Hendi on rewiring everyday money
In this episode of Money Majlis, host Suvo Sarkar sits down with former colleague Dr. Tariq bin Hendi, Vice Chairman and CEO of Astra Tech, to unpack how Botim is transforming from a simple VoIP calling app into an AI-native fintech powerhouse for the UAE and beyond. It is a conversation that weaves together policy, technology, inclusion, and leadership-anchored in one of the region’s most ambitious experiments in embedded finance.
Tariq begins by tracing his unconventional journey across investment banking, wealth management, government service and now consumer technology, and explains why the financial needs of a blue collar worker are fundamentally the same as those of a millionaire.
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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.