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FUMO is your weekly guide into the world of finance and technology. Hosted by Ronit Ghose and Gaurav Dhar, it will bring you the latest financial innovations in company of exceptional leaders - all curated for you. Don’t get FOMO with FUMO!
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
FUMO connects fintech's large promises to the operating choices, customer behavior and regional relationships that determine what actually gets adopted.
FUMO: Future Of Money Podcast puts financial technology in the hands of people building, funding and changing it. Ronit Ghose and Gaurav Dhar use guest conversations to connect payment systems, banking technology and AI with the decisions behind adoption.
A fintech investor lands in his own hot seat; you get the story behind 600-plus investments.
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A sharp look at why U.S. crypto and tokenization attention is heating up again.
Ken Chapman's background in military service and capital markets gives the discussion its backbone, and the clearest thread is how U.S. executive orders ripple through digital assets, stablecoins, tokenization, and institutional interest.
A brisk Middle East fintech conversation that makes stablecoins, CBDCs, and cross-border payments concrete.
FUMO keeps the conversation moving, with Serena from PwC helping frame the Middle East discussion around digital currencies, stablecoins, CBDCs, and cross-border payments.
A grounded crypto conversation that keeps asking what changed and what still has to work.
Ajit Tripathi's path from Goldman Sachs and PwC to Chain Yoda gives the episode a clear crypto and blockchain frame. It moves through the Bitcoin cycle, AI, meme coins, the claim that the recent US elections reshaped the 2025 outlook, and the gap between early blockchain…
A grounded look at digital banking infrastructure, data control, and why adoption can move differently across regions.
Kelvin Tan and Audax are framed as a practical case study in banking infrastructure: a technology company built around a bank-in-a-box model that helps banks move quickly, launch digital banking businesses, and support banking as a service, embedded finance, and open banking.
A TradFi-to-DeFi story that turns regulation into a practical read on crypto's return to the U.S.
Ken Chapman's route from the US military to JPMorgan, Bank of America, Bridgewater, BNY Mellon, and then DeFi gives the discussion its center of gravity: a TradFi operator explaining why crypto was worth the jump, and why companies and projects have been trying to secure a place…
AI in financial services, treated as an operating problem rather than a slogan.
Gaurav and Ronit keep the discussion grounded in the practical side of AI in financial services. The strongest thread is not the hype cycle but the work of turning unorganized data into something usable, then carrying that logic through regulation, payments, and the wider…
A grounded look at MENA fintech, shaped by conviction, regional context, and a few useful war stories.
The episode tracks Namir Khan, chairman of the MENA FinTech Association, as he looks back on how the association came together, what got in the way, and what kept him at it.
A fintech story that keeps returning to fund strategy, regional detail, and the practical needs of founders.
The episode tracks a Vienna-based fintech investor making the case for Speedinvest's early-stage model and its reach into emerging markets, especially the GCC and Africa.
Patient conversations on finance, climate, and purpose.
Miriam, Circle's regional head for the Middle East and Africa, says stablecoins are digital currencies pegged to fiat and used on blockchain rails, with USDC presented as the largest regulated stablecoin in the world.
Telegram starts as a messaging habit.
Gaurav and Ronit open by welcoming Ken Chapman as an old friend.
Serena from PwC joins FUMO to unpack digital currencies through a regional lens.
Namir Khan joins FUMO to talk through how he built the MENA FinTech Association and why he stuck with it.
Ken Chapman joins Gaurav and Ronit for a loose, fast-moving conversation that starts with travel, debit cards, and a few jokes before shifting into his path through military service and capital markets.
Hugo Philion, co-founder of Flare Networks and CEO of Flare Labs, says Flare was built as an EVM layer-one chain with two built-in data protocols: the Flare Time Series Oracle and the Flare Data Connector.
Ronit Ghose traces his path from parliament research assistant in 1995 London to three decades in finance, including work at the UK banking trade body and Citi.
Live from Riyadh’s 24 Fintech, Gaurav and Douglas Harner connect India’s digital public infrastructure to the G20, the idea of India Stack, and a 2017 financial inclusion project that identified China, Russia, Kenya, and India as places where digital ID and interoperable payments were changing access.
Munaf Ali says Phoenix started in late 2017 in a small warehouse in Dubai Investment Park, where he and a young partner built mining rigs from graphic cards, motherboards, cables, and fans.
Gaurav and Ronit open with Nare and use Entropy as a way into the bigger AI question.
FUMO: Future Of Money Podcast 107 features Lory Kehoe, CCO of M2, explaining how a UAE-born crypto investment platform is built around regulation, custody, and institutional trust.
FUMO: Future Of Money Podcast speaks with Usman Ahmed of Zodiac about his path from HSBC investment banking in 2014-2015 to crypto, starting with a 2013 email from Hong Kong about Bitcoin and later joining a blockchain-adjacent business in 2018.
Paul Taylor, founder of Thought Machine, discusses how his cloud-native core banking software solves legacy technology issues in banks.
Nandan Mer says Saudi Arabia moved from roughly 20% digital payments to closer to 60% in five to six years, while the UAE is now launching Ani and J1 through Al Etihad Payments.
Stefan Klestil of Speedinvest discusses his journey from Vienna to becoming a leading fintech investor in emerging markets, sharing insights on founder maturity, cross-border challenges, and new fund strategies.
Sophie Guilbault joins FUMO and the hosts open by tracing her path from operator work around venture capital at companies such as Rocket Internet and later established platforms like Fido, to wanting to get behind the curtain and see how things work from the inside.
FUMO brings on Kelvin Tan, CEO of Audax, to talk about the future of banking.
Ajit Tripathi joins FUMO as Chain Yoda, and the hosts spend the episode tracing how he moved from Goldman Sachs and PwC into crypto.
The hosts sit down with Ahmed Al-Nakbi, CEO of Emirates Development Bank, and use the conversation to spell out what EDB is and why it matters.