{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"A2Z Fintech","title":"S2E12 — Life, Love & Liquidity: Finance, Funny and the View from Fifty","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":4534,"description":"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 other made fun of them. Both just watched their first careers become obsolete in twelve minutes.This is a different kind of A2Z Fintech episode. Recorded in Mumbai during a long working swing across India, Aman Narain sits down with his oldest friend, the comedian and screenwriter Anuvab Pal, for the first long-form conversation on the show with a guest from outside fintech. They met in August 1995 in an eight-in-the-morning accounting class at Ohio Wesleyan. Anuvab interned at the Federal Reserve, then spent eleven years at Reuters and Thomson Reuters before writing his way out into stand-up, plays, and films. Aman went to Standard Chartered in London, INSEAD, Singapore, ran the bank's first internet, mobile and digital channels in thirty countries, then joined Caesar Sengupta at Google Pay during the India launch.Aman Narain and Anuvab Pal break down what fintech actually feels like from the inside of a transformed life. The conversation moves from a Calcutta school in the 1980s to a dorm room at Ohio Wesleyan in 1995, to the Reuters basement in lower Manhattan, to Fontainebleau, to the launch of Google Pay India, to the Industrial-Age rails on which Intelligence-Age money still travels in 2026. It is a fintech episode in disguise.Key takeaways:1. The investment-banking pitch book Anuvab spent his early years at Reuters producing — and a meaningful slice of what he sold for a decade after — is now made in twelve minutes by an LLM, end to end.2. Money has moved into the Intelligence Age while the rails carrying it remain Industrial Age plumbing. The unfinished work of fintech is the next layer: a \"new interchange\" that prices the data attached to a payment, not the payment itself.3. GPay in India is a different animal from GPay anywhere else because the India Stack — UPI plus Aadhaar plus a national phone-number...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/7Qyf0xWmHeg7LEUFCI-k-jpWOtyK3SxMMPFnu7Noa5M/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS84ODdh/NDVjNDFmYzZiMzFj/OWY5MzM3YjExNDAw/YTQ4NC5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}