Aman Narain & Zubin Vandrevala
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Fintech strategy at race speed.
A2Z Fintech is a rapid, conversational fintech show built around big theses and business consequences. It follows stablecoins, card networks, banking, brokers, asset management, AI, work, and wellness with the energy of a live market argument.
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A2Z Fintech is a rapid, argument-led show about the power shifts underneath modern finance. It does not treat payments as plumbing. It treats them as territory. Mastercard buying BVNK becomes a signal that card networks want a role in the stablecoin era, not a footnote after it. Stripe’s Bridge acquisition becomes the move that forces every independent stablecoin infrastructure player to pick a side. PayPal is framed through origin story, platform ambition, and the danger of becoming the old button in a world where identity and merchant control matter more. The show is strongest when it turns dense business mechanics into vivid contests. Visa and Mastercard become race teams. Banks risk becoming dumb balance sheets. Brokers look oddly antique beside AI, instant messaging, and money that can move in seconds. Asset management gets the same treatment, with Schroders and Nuveen used to examine what happens when family-controlled active managers face passive pressure and scale economics. The tone is quick, casual, and openly judgmental. Still, the arguments usually have a spine: a thesis, a sequence, a number, then a verdict. Aman Narayan and Zubin work well as a duo because the conversation can run hot without losing the plot. One pushes the setup, the other sharpens the comparison, and the show keeps circling back to why the move matters for banks, fintech founders, treasurers, investors, and customers. It also has range. A wellness episode with Sumayya Dharmia connects founder performance, gyms, sleep, and training systems to the same broader question of sustainable execution. An episode on the independent worker ties AI, remote work, creator income, and financial infrastructure into one-person enterprise economics. A2Z Fintech is for listeners who want strategy with pace, not sanitized trend recaps. It makes finance feel like sport, but the scoreboard is market access, distribution, infrastructure, and control.
Made for: For fintech operators, investors, banking leaders, founders, and curious finance listeners who want fast context on payments, platforms, AI, and market structure. It especially fits people who like sharp takes backed by deal logic and operator detail.
What sets it apart: A2Z Fintech turns infrastructure stories into vivid competitive narratives without flattening the business mechanics. The show mixes hard numbers, global examples, and playful analogies while still landing clear strategic judgments.
Aman Narain and Zubin Vandrevala have spent over 25 years in fintech across Banks, BigTech, and Startups. This is a podcast of them riffing on payments, fintech and everything in between.
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
A2Z Fintech makes shifts in banking, payments, and work legible through energetic discussion of the infrastructure and incentives underneath them.
A2Z Fintech treats financial technology as an argument about infrastructure, incentives, and everyday behavior. Aman Narayan and Zubin use conversational breakdowns, playful analogies, and pointed questions to connect bank strategy with the financial lives those systems shape.
Aman Narain gives you a mock Formula One press conference before you start judging fintech's winners.
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Mastercard's BVNK buy is framed as a contest for control of the next payments rail.
This episode sets its argument in a paper-based banking world and uses that backdrop to make a simple point: settlement speed and network control are the real prizes.
A founder wellness conversation that treats fitness as infrastructure, not inspiration.
Aman Narayan uses A to Z FinTech to move from markets to the body itself, tying wellness to pitch meetings, 14-hour days, and airport travel. He speaks with Sumayya Dharmia, who says she has been transforming bodies and building businesses since 1997, and the conversation stays…
A sharp case for banks to stay useful by winning everyday financial life.
It treats banking as a fight over usefulness. The argument is simple: if incumbents keep handing the customer relationship to newer tools, they end up with little more than the balance sheet.
A brisk tech-finance take that keeps coming back to reliability, not hype.
Aman and Zubin frame 2025 tech like a race with a shaky grid, where NVIDIA, Apple, and OpenAI each play a different kind of game. The episode then moves into payments and commerce, putting Visa up against stablecoins and Shopify against PayPal.
A finance-forward look at how work is moving toward one-person enterprises.
A2Z Fintech treats the rise of independent workers as a structural shift in labor, not a passing trend. It starts by setting a clear contrast between old interview routines and AI screening today, then widens the lens to automation, hybrid work, creator economics, and the…
Mortgage fintech from the field.
Mastercard is buying rails, not buzz.
Aman Narayan opens by moving A to Z FinTech away from regulation and toward the body that does the work.
This episode discusses how stock trading remains outdated despite technological advances, and predicts a major shift in the next 18 months.
The episode recounts the founding story of PayPal, including Elon Musk's ousting, and discusses its rise, peak valuation, and current decline.
A deep dive into the $12.8 billion acquisition of Schroders by Nuveen, analyzing the end of a family dynasty and the decline of mid-sized active management.
Aman Narayan opens the show solo and frames the episode as a full-circle conversation about how banks stay relevant.
Aman and Zubin wrap season one by framing 2025 as the Tech Grand Prix.
It opens with a joke that barely stays a joke.
A discussion on the evolution of neobanks from early models to profitable giants like Revolut and Nubank, and the blueprint for success in modern banking.
Analysis of Sam Altman's strategic moves at OpenAI Dev Day, framing him as a Machiavellian leader challenging tech giants to dominate the attention and ecosystem economies.
Aman and Zubin discuss tokenization in finance, drawing parallels to Japan's culture of miniaturization and capsule toys.
Two hosts discuss the transformative potential of AI in banking, emphasizing responsible AI, governance, and explainability beyond simple chatbot integration.