FUMO with Alex Manson, Episode 1
Explore the main opportunities and painpoints in the evolving banking world, Alex’s career journey from China to the UAE, and what the future is holding for the the digital landscape.
Our Guest
In this wide ranging conversation, Ronit Ghose and Gaurav Dhar explored the main opportunities and pain points in the evolving banking world, his career journey from China to the UAE, and what the future is holding for the future of banking.
Get ready to listen various inspiring stories and killer insights from Alex:
- AI integration in banking.
- Current trends shaping the world of fintech.
- How are regulatory changes influencing the development and deployment of fintech solutions in the banking sector?
You can watch the sessions on Youtube, or listen it on Apple and Spotify Podcast.
Alex Manson heads SC Ventures at Standard Chartered, a new business unit established in March 2018 to lead innovation and promote intrapreneurship across the Group, run a professional investment unit to invest in fintech companies, and promote the testing and implementation of new business models with new disruptive ventures wholly or partially owned by the Group.
Our Co-Hosts
Ronit Ghose is the lead author of Citi’s GPS Bank of the Future and FinTech report series – the first edition has had more than 250,000 downloads making it the most read report ever published by Citi, and one of the most read FinTech reports ever published. Since joining Citi in 1997, Ronit has covered banks in the Americas, Asia and EMEA. He is the Global Head of Future of Finance in Citi Research. He is also an Advisory Board Member at the Centre for Finance, Technology, and Entrepreneurship. Ronit previously worked at the British Bankers’ Association and as a research assistant in Parliament. He has an undergraduate degree from the University of Oxford, a postgraduate diploma from the University of London and is a CFA charter holder.
Gaurav Dhar is the CEO of the Payments Solution Provider Marshal in Dubai. Gaurav has been working at Marshal for over 19 years now He strives to continually be on the frontier of building FinTech ecosystems and solutions. His personal time is spent on working with and investing directly in innovators, with a view to the future of Fintech both locally and globally via his cache of relationships which include VCs, incubators, accelerators, and start-ups and Angel Syndicates. In his position as a board member of the MENA FinTech Association and several advisory positions to international family offices, start-ups, and funds, he looks to grow the relationships within the FinTech and start-up ecosystem to contribute towards the education of budding disruptors and eventually the growth of economies and the job market where possible in the MEA Region and abroad.
