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S2E16 S2E16 — Polymarket, Kalshi and the People Who Knew First
A US Army sergeant bet roughly $33,000 on Polymarket on an arrest he had just been briefed on, and turned it into the price of a house. A Google engineer read his own company's unpublished data and…
S2E15 S2E15 — Sundar's Long Game: Google I/O 2026
Click here to watch a video of this episode. Twelve hours after Sundar Pichai walked off the Shoreline stage, the recap industry was already ranking his Google I/O 2026 announcements top ten this,…
S2E14 S2E14 — Machines with Wallets: From Buy Button to Agentic Commerce
Click here to watch a video of this episode. Patrick Collison says agents will soon account formost online transactions. The Machine Payments Protocol thatreplaces the buy button is now live, and…
S2E13 S2E13 — The Google of Money: From Seven Lines of Code to Indexing the Economy
Click here to watch a video of this episode. Stripe shipped 288 features in a single morning at Sessions 2026 in San Francisco. The right pattern match for what the company is becoming is not Visa,…
S2E12 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…
S2E11 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…
S2E10 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…
S2E9 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…
S2E8 Your Broker Has 18 Months | The Week Finance Changed
In the age of AI, stock trading is still writing cheques. That changed this week.On March 9, 2026, Nasdaq partnered with crypto exchange Kraken to build the Equities Transformation Gateway —…
S2E7 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,…
S2E6 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…
S2E5 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,…
S2E4 NuBank’s US License: The Purple Revolution Arrives
The US banking fortress just got a new neighbor. NuBank—the Latin American titan with 127M+ customers—has officially announced its US National Bank License.In this minisode, Aman and Zubin break down…
S2E3 Capital One Acquires Brex: The $5.15B Exit Analysis
In this A2Z Fintech minisode / hot take, we break down the shockwave acquisition of Brex by Capital One for $5.15 billion. Is this just a bank buying a startup, or is it the "Original Disruptor"…
S2E2 S2 E2: NRF 2026 – The Agentic Afterparty
The "Buy Button" is moving from the screen to the conversation. > In this episode of A to Z Fintech, Aman Narain and Zubin Vandrevala report from NRF 2026. We move beyond the hype to the "Next…
S2E1 CES 2026: Top 10 Gadgets & The Physical AI Era (S02 E01)
Welcome back to Season 2 of A to Z Fintech! Aman and Zubin are back from the holidays, but their brains are still in Vegas. This isn't just a gadget review; it’s a look at the "Re-Materialization" of…
S1E17 Ep 17: The Grand Prix Finale of Fin + Tech
Lights out and away we go! For the Season One finale of A2Z Fintech, Aman and Zubin take you to the "Post-Race Press Conference" of 2025. This year, the tech and fintech worlds didn't just move…
S1E16 Ep 16: The Rise of the Indy Worker
Is your career an album or a playlist? 🎶We are moving from the Industrial Age (factories, pensions, 9-to-5s) to the Intelligence Age (feeds, algorithms, gigs), but our money is still stuck in the…
S1E15 Neobanks 2.0: Challengers to Cornerstones
In this episode, Zubin and Aman explore the transformative journey of Neobanks, tracing their evolution from early models to the current Neobank 2.0 era. They discuss the historical context of…
S1E14 Open AI Dev Day: The House of Altman Rises
In this edition of A to Z Fintech, Aman and Zubin decode OpenAI’s audacious DevDay 2025 — and frame it as the ultimate Game of Thrones for the tech world.From Sam Altman’s meteoric rise and…
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