FinTech CTO Talks - FinTech Podcast

"Agentic AI in Financial Services: Governing the Ungoverned" 🎙️ Episode Overview As AI evolves from assisting humans to making autonomous decisions, financial institutions face a new challenge: how do you govern systems that can act on their own? In this episode, Ramkumar Subramanian , Partner - Financial Services Risk Advisory at Grant Thornton Bharat LLP , for an insightful conversatio...

"How Should Financial Institutions Measure the Value of AI" 🎙️ Episode Overview In this episode, Sai Sharan Tangeda , CEO & Co-Founder of vishwa.ai , has a thoughtful conversation on what meaningful AI success looks like in financial services. While many organizations focus on efficiency gains and automation metrics, Sai explains why the real value of AI goes much deeper - into impro...

"ESOPs in 2026: Structure, Valuation & What Founders and Employees Must Know" 🎙️ Episode Overview We welcome Siddharth Jain , an Independent Consultant and seasoned finance professional with over 14 years of experience across financial analysis, valuation, strategic planning, and business advisory. Siddharth shares insights from his professional journey, discussing how businesses can...

"What Investors Really Look For Before Funding a Fintech Startup (A CFO's View)" 🎙️ Episode Overview In this episode, we are joined by Hemant Patel , CFO & CSO , for an insightful conversation on finance, business strategy, leadership, and sustainable growth in today’s evolving business landscape. Hemant shares his experience in driving strategic decision-making, managing busines...

"The race of implementing AI in Finance" 🎙️ Episode Overview Mudit Gupta | Consultant In this insightful conversation, Mudit Gupta shares his perspective on business transformation, strategic decision-making, and how organizations can create sustainable growth in today’s fast-changing market. From leadership lessons to practical consulting insights, this episode is packed with valuable t...

"Embedded Finance: Your Bank Never Knew You Left" 🎙️ Episode Overview In this episode, we sit down with Benjamin Ensor , Director of Research & Strategy at 11:FS , to unpack the changing landscape of financial services. Benjamin shares his perspective on how consumer expectations are evolving in a digital-first world, and why many users still rely on multiple financial apps despite w...

"Designing for Outcomes: Capital Efficiency, Optimal Exits & Long-Term Value" 🎙️ Episode Overview In this episode, we’re joined by Dan Dall'Asta , Co-Founder & Managing Partner at Citrine Venture Partners , for a thoughtful conversation on the future of fintech and AI-led innovation. Dan brings decades of experience across financial services, investing, and building scalable...

Meet Praveen Gade - Co-Founder & CTO at DigiGrain Solutions Pvt. Ltd. , building a “phygital” agri value-chain ecosystem that connects real-world commodities with digital rails for transparency and trust. In this brief intro, Praveen shares how DigiGrain helps agri & food MSMEs solve day-to-day challenges - reliable sourcing, smarter warehousing and stock visibility, safer storage, and smo...

Featuring: Sourabh Girdhar , CTO Welcome to a power-packed episode of Fintech CTO Talks - the podcast where fintech builders, CTOs, and innovators decode the future of financial technology. In this episode, we sit down with Sourabh Girdhar , CTO , to break down a game-changing transformation in fintech: How did fintech turn processes that once took days… into minutes? From rethinking legacy system...

Welcome to the very first episode of Fintech CTO Talks - a podcast designed for fintech founders and innovators shaping the future of financial technology. In this episode, we sit down with Arpan Desai , Co-founder at FintegrationFS , to explore a groundbreaking question:👉 Is Vibecoding the future of fintech product innovation? From building scalable fintech solutions to reimagining how technolog...