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A fireside chat with Philip Belamant from Zilch

July 30, 2026

I recently hosted a group of MBA students, studying across Hult International Business School's global campuses but in London to experience what makes the fintech scene here so unique. Through the week, we heard from over a dozen guest speakers, each of whom added something special from their experience, but the undisputed highlight was a trip to Zilch's office to hear firsthand how Philip Belamant and the team rode the ups and downs to build the fastest-growing unicorn in Europe - $0 to $2 b...

AI-first and Shariah by design, with Rajesh Saxena (Intellect Design Arena)

July 23, 2026

Intellect Design Arena are a global enterprise fintech leader helping financial institutions simplify complexity, modernise faster and create meaningful customer value. But, more than that, with design thinking at their core, they're a company that solves problems, from the ground up, for all flavours of financial services - and on today's episode, we're looking at their new eMACH.ai solution for Islamic Banking, purpose-built with end-to-end Islamic functionality to automate Shariah complian...

Solving big problems in innovative ways, with Waqas Javed (Bank of Punjab)

July 02, 2026

Pakistan is massively underbanked, but those gaps are being closed faster than you might think, using a range of innovative solutions that range from traditional credit bureaus to satellite imagery to psychometric scorecards. In this episode, I'm with Waqas Javed, EVP for Data Analytics AI at the Bank of Punjab, talking about the vision behind, and the impact of, their drive to bring fair credit products to the people.You can find Waqas on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/wajaved/The B...