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TRANSFIN. LongShorts with Nikhil Arora and Sharath Toopran

TRANSFIN. Podcasts

Welcome to LongShorts! A TRANSFIN. Podcast where Nikhil Arora and Sharath Toopran converse with entrepreneurs and business operators running successful startups, profitable SMEs and family promoted firms on one end, and top investment professionals representing VC/PE/credit funds on the other. The objective is to bring out an "actionable" perspective converging the world of business and investing.

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64:01

S4 Ep58: LongShorts: The Great Digital Tamasha

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2019/12/23

Ankit Agarwal is the spokesman for Digital. His journey, which started from setting up a personal finance blog (Getting Money Wise https://gettingmoneywise.com/) to heading Digital Media & Performance Marketing at Uber India is fascinating. Sitting on the crux of content, product, and marketing, Ankit reminisces on how the internet has permanently changed the way we consume and perceive brands. We go deep into content monetization and changed customer narratives, discuss the overlaps

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17:09

S4 Ep57: Adda: A Billion Security Cameras and Why...

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2019/12/19

Hello, folks! We're back with another episode of Adda! This week, we dwell on the global security camera industry and the implications of facial recognition technology. Both have serious privacy and security implications, and different countries are dealing with them in different ways. We delve through the data points and points of view to find out what the future of surveillance looks like. And then we make a turn to discuss the growing significance of vocational courses - and how, contrary to

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50:05

S4 Ep56: LongShorts: The Credit and Electric Revolution

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2019/12/16

When Sameer Aggarwal moved back to Delhi after working in credit for almost a decade (HSBC, Oakam - UK), he saw many Indians missing the financial inclusion boat. This in his view is part thanks to non-availability of data and part because of poor data. He kicked off RevFin (as the name indicates) as an attempt to Revolutionise Finance and especially lending, starting by going deep into the consumer Electric Three Wheeler (e3W) segment. We caught up with Sameer to understand the fundamental

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15:49

S4 Ep55: Adda: Mannequins on the Streets and Search...

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2019/12/12

We’re back with the fourth episode of Adda! This week, we discuss two evergreen topics – traffic on Indian roads and innovative ways to preserve our environment. First, we talk about the latest trick the Bengaluru traffic police have pulled out of their hats to ensure that commuters follow traffic rules on the city’s eternally-congested roads. What’s the trick, you ask? Life-sized, policeman-attired mannequins on the streets! (No, really.) And then we discuss Ecosia, a search engine on a

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26:44

S4 Ep54: LongShorts: Peeling the Onion and Pharmacy...

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2019/12/09

The Reserve Bank of India to the surprise of economists (and by extension consensus) keeps repo rate at hold. But economists are hardly right these days. Nor do they drive economic narratives. Onions however, do. That's topic number one. Second is the recent woes of the online pharmaceutical industry, at one time touted as a INR25,000cr market opportunity, now facing the wrath of an erratic regulator. With it comes the oldest questions when it comes to tech. Should they be treated as

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15:28

S4 Ep53: Adda: Growing Old Before Becoming Rich and...

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2019/12/05

This week we engage in an insightful discussion on what happens when a country grows old before its grows rich. Following this, we talk about the up and coming trend of everyday wear rental in the fashion industry.

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33:56

S4 Ep52: LongShorts: Uber Caps, Bad Banks and a...

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2019/12/02

Today...we go dark! No kidding. Post a comparatively benign routine around Ola and Uber toing-and-froing with the regulator, we delve deeper into recent mis-steps within India's financial sector. Today's TOC includes: Commission and surge pricing caps on Uber/Ola Creating a bad bank and why it may not work The weirdly unnoticed fraud besotting Karvy With the Indian economy jumping from one fraud after another, did we really have a choice? One choice we did have was to use this space

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18:08

S4 Ep51: Adda: Aramco's Titanic IPO and Why All Maps...

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2019/11/28

We are back with the second episode of Adda! This week, we spend some time discussing what could possibly be the biggest IPO ever - energy giant Saudi Aramco's $100bn public listing and the hue and cry around the $2tr valuation Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is eyeing. Thereon, we move on to discuss why almost all maps you've ever come across were perhaps wrong.

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24:44

S4 Ep50: LongShorts: Steel Wars and Telecom's...

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2019/11/25

Plenty to catch up following Supreme Court's marathon run of closing corporate matters. We however focused our energies deconstructing The ongoing stress affecting India's telecom sector. Translation: AGR dues The 1st major settled case under the nation's nascent bankruptcy law i.e. ArcelorMittal acquiring Essar With 10 of the 15 telcos liable to the government (post SC's judgement) no longer in existence, the former can hardly be considered as "settled". And the corporate drama accompanying

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15:24

S4 Ep49: Adda: Hollywood's China Problem and The Shoe...

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2019/11/21

Welcome to Adda's very first episode! Today we talk on two topics that caught our attention through the week. First is the growing influence of China on Hollywood of all places. Second, is the curious case of the shoe that grows. Listen in for some riveting ice-breakers!

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53:32

S3 Ep48: Startup Plights, Investor Rights,...

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2019/09/16

From a finance buff and a corporate lawyer to the founder of a secret club and a policy researcher, Season 3 has seen a rather eclectic mix of guests. The season finale has been equally exciting. This week we catch up with Vatsal Gaur, a M&A/PE and VC lawyer with over 8 years of experience behind him. After having previously worked with leading law firms such as J. Sagar Associates, Khaitan & Co and Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan in senior roles, Vatsal is currently working with HSA

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29:47

S3 Ep47: Auto Deal, Recession Proof, Mega Merger

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2019/09/09

After a three week hiatus (a bit of summer travel to recharge), we are back with a new episode of LongShorts. Number 47 starts with a chat on the sector which strangely but not surprisingly transformed itself from being the darling of the Indian stock market to its bane within twelve months! Yes, the Indian Auto space! However, the Mahindra-Meru discussion is only deployed as a crafty (real or imagined) segue to a wider commentary on the depressed Indian Economy. Plenty of things have transpired

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35:21

S3 Ep46: Macro Headwinds, RIL's Craft, Big-Bang Mergers

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2019/08/18

We’ve had an eventful few weeks here at LongShorts. We chatted with a long line of guests from various backgrounds with whom we conversed about a wide-ranging portfolio of topics. In this episode, we take a breather and go back to the good ol’ days when it was just us two chatting about the heavy-duty news developments of the week. There’s been a lot in the news, therefore there’s a lot on our minds. Some things we discuss: Killing two birds with one debt-laden stone – RIL’s much-talked-about

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52:49

S3 Ep45: Credit Line, Use Case, Big Data

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2019/08/12

Surrounded by "heavy duty" political news and a bit of rain - we take a breather to catch up with Parikshit Chitalkar. Parikshit is Co-Founder and head of Tech and Product at StashFin, a digital lending platform offering flexible loan products through their Credit Line Card. He shares his story, including formerly building and exiting a business in Canada, the origin of StashFin, the room for innovative use cases in lending, and how they have managed to grow at a pace difficult to crack in the

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S3 Ep44: Catch-22, Agro-Processing, Value Chains

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2019/08/05

A computer engineer by training, Aneesh Jain briefly dabbled in consulting at McKinsey and TechnoServe before he found his calling in the development sector, leading to the inception of Gram Unnati, a not-for profit set up working for the improvement of farmers' lives. In yet another gear-shift from the series of guests we have had this season, Aneesh talks about how something that intuitively looked like a brilliant idea, with everyone posed to benefit, was in fact laden with multiple

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54:48

S3 Ep43: Practical Finance, Gilded Markets, Crypto Block

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2019/07/29

Vatsal Srivastava has the rare distinction of being a Markets Participant...as well as a Markets Commentator. Between a B.A. Mathematics at St Stephen's and an MBA from INSEAD, he caught the trading bug when he speculated on L&T while interning at a Business TV channel. But he's kept writing on Finance close to his heart, frequently publishing columns on major financial papers, aside from recently serving at Reuters as their Asia Markets Correspondent. In this mighty interesting chat,

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57:54

S3 Ep42: Branchless, DIY, Savings 2.0

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2019/07/22

Samant Sikka is the Founder and Chief Dreamer at Sqrrl, a new age personal finance platform helping young Indians re-align their experiential lifestyle and consumption focus with the counter-intuitive objective of saving money. An industry veteran with asset management stints at Axis and Goldman Sachs behind him, Samant is a passionate proponent of the idea that in the age of platforms it is the modern consumer use-case which will emerge as the winner. Our chat covers many interesting topics,

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51:10

S3 Ep41: United Nations, Econ 2.0, Parallel Forces

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2019/07/15

Aashish Khullar is the first (now former) elected official on our Podcast though he doesn't fit its usual definition. He works with the UN system on global governance for sustainable development, specifically on environmental and economic issues. He formerly represented the United Nations Major Group for Children and Youth at various intergovernmental and multistakeholder processes. Extremely passionate for sustainable development, the importance of intergovernmental cooperation, and ecological

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56:03

S3 Ep40: Policy Winds, Land Rights, And Wrongs

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2019/07/08

Land Rights constitute one of the most complex and controversial policy issues afflicting Modern India. And Ankit Bhatia, an alumnus from IIT Kharagpur, from the Centre for Policy Research (CPR) has had a front-row seat while trying to deconstruct the problems at hand to make them part of mainstream discourse. Ankit and folks at CPR Land Rights Initiative started their journey over four years ago by analyzing 1,200 plus historical Land Acquisition-related Supreme Court cases to identify the biggest

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51:40

S3 Ep39: Gap, Consumption, Credit

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2019/07/01

When Mayank Kachhwaha initially dabbled with India's credit market as a wannabe entrepreneur (back from a six year stint at Capital One), he was keen to explore peer-2-peer lending. Thus started IndiaLends in March 2015. But soon the realization dawned upon them that India doesn't really have a credit supply problem. Rather, it is the structural issues in the customer cycle itself which need fixing. Be it the high cost of origination or the technological capabilities to adequately price risk. With

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