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TRANSFIN. LongShorts with Nikhil Arora and Sharath Toopran

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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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S5 Ep98: The Rise of Digital Lending Platforms in...

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2021/01/28

Our guest this week is Tushar Aggarwal, the Founder and CEO of StashFin, a digital lending platform offering flexible loan products in India. Digital lending has enjoyed a meteoric rise during recent years, propelled by credit starvation in non-conventional cohorts, rising spends, and changing consumer behaviour thanks to a rapidly expanding digital footprint bringing in newer aspirations. A seasoned financial services professional and entrepreneur with a CV that includes the who's who of global

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49:30

S5 Ep97: Understanding the World of Neobanks with...

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2020/12/24

It's about time we speak of neobanks, no? Guess we were just waiting for the right person. :) Well now that's no longer an excuse. Presenting a super interesting chat with Jitin Bhasin, Founder and CEO of SaveIN - a neobank "aimed at simplifying Finance, Banking, Investments." A former senior fintech leader with stints at BankBazaar.com and RupeeRedee, Jitin distills over a decade of experience in fintech and banking industry to walk us through the web of data, business models, and

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S5 Ep96: How to Advise Small Businesses During the...

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2020/12/17

Our guest this episode is Jitesh Agarwal, with whom we discuss how startups and SMEs in India are functioning and the challenges they continue to face in the wake of COVID-19. The pandemic has brought about a lot of changes in management and investment attitude, and this has no doubt forced the SME sector to adapt accordingly. Jitesh is the co-founder of Treelife Consulting, a Mumbai-based multi-disciplinary business consulting firm for startups and SME companies in India. Its pitch is simple: To

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45:26

S5 Ep95: Breaking Down Factor Investing in Indian...

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2020/12/03

We do a deep dive into Factor Investing with Hersh Tolani. Factor investing, a purely mathematical framework, can add much needed discipline and structure to your investing process. Segued (as expected) into a wider discourse around investing - touching many facets ranging from quantitative vs. qualitative approaches, deep value school to more traditional philosophies. Investing is an ocean (assume the cover art would now make more sense!) with often no right or wrong answers. The key is to

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49:31

S5 Ep94: Should Value Investing in India be...

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2020/11/23

Vivek Mashrani is a proud value investing and financial freedom proponent. He believes that both Technical Analysis and Fundamentals bring their own set of unique perspectives to the investing process and would rather combine them through a "TechnoFunda" route. In this super interesting chat, we challenge Vivek on value investing's recent perceived loss of relevance within contemporary financial markets. While agreeing with us in principle, Vivek takes a more nuanced approach towards how popular

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42:02

S5 Ep93: Why Fintech Companies in India are Just...

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2020/11/16

We speak with Madhusudanan R, reflecting upon the evolution of fintech in India over the past decade - starting from the initial hype around peer to peer lending platforms and e-wallets to how this new age sector has, naturally and by regulations, gravitated towards the traditional banking sector. As founder and CEO of YAP, an API platform acting as a technology layer connecting businesses with banks, he shares his thoughts on the interesting marriage between public infrastructure and private

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51:22

S5 Ep92: How to Lend to Small Businesses with...

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2020/11/02

Shachindra Nath looks at SMEs loans through a uniquely granular sectoral lens. As Executive Chairman and MD of U GRO Capital - a listed SME lender with a loan book of c. INR850cr, Mr. Nath has been busy deploying his vision over the last three years to serve this challenging and grossly underpenetrated segment. In today's chat he shares his thoughts on: - How to view SME lending/SME financing through U GRO's model - The role of digital infrastructure in pricing risk - Information asymmetry:

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51:21

S5 Ep91: Musings on Low Interest Rates and Skewed...

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2020/10/26

It has been nearly ten years of printing money and near-zero interest rates in most developed markets. Thanks to COVID, the phenomenon is now spreading to the emerging world as well. What was envisaged to be an emergency maneuver has now become the status quo. How has this central bank approach worked? Where did it come short? How should one think about the side effects of Quantitative Easing on the world economy? We chat with Colin Lloyd, a markets veteran (plus writer behind In the Long Run, a

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47:47

S5 Ep90: What We Now About Coronavirus vs What We...

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2020/10/19

This is a follow up chat with Dr Arun K Chopra on Covid-19. We spoke six months ago (remotely) when Coronavirus had just struck India to gain his early perspective on the challenges at play. As a Senior Cardiologist and member of Fortis Amritsar's Covid-19 response team, he now shares a refined view under the framework of what we now know vs what we thought we knew. From Covid's starting perception as a plain pneumonia-like condition to its evolution into a complicated disease spanning

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41:37

S5 Ep89: How Indians Can Benefit from Investing in...

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2020/10/08

Viram Shah has been helping Indians invest in the US stock markets through Vested Finance, a company he started in 2018. We (at TRANSFIN.) have always found this theme rather interesting, considering US equities' global leadership when it comes to innovation and market dominance (exhibit A). Aside from the obvious diversification and foreign exchange market benefits (in most cases), listed US companies often set the tone for the rest of the world when it comes to superior disclosures, liquidity,

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S5 Ep88: How Does the Stock Market Work in India with...

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2020/10/01

Vivek Bajaj is a third generation Financial Markets participant and co-founder of StockEdge, a research and analytics platform aiming to become the 'Bloomberg' for retail investors in India. We talk about the wide range of things like: - How Indian stock markets have been technology challenged - How price is as good as the quality of data backing it - High conviction themes / sectors when it comes to buying Indian equities post Covid - The importance of 'selling' discipline - Why investors

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S5 Ep87: Cracking FinTech, Credit and Digital...

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2020/09/28

Avinash Godkhindi comes from an interesting vantage point overlooking both traditional Finance and modern Technologies. The former probably got ingrained during his stint heading product for Citi's PremierMiles credit cards. The latter most definitely came from his present tenure as CEO of Zaggle, a B2B fintech company digitising spends. We started with a conversation on the evolution of his business, but quickly segued into a wider chat on the contemporary evolution and challenges within

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S5 Ep86: How to Earn Money Online with Kinner N...

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2020/09/17

In this one we talk with Kinner, CEO at Knorish, an online education platform to create your own online store to sell courses and content. Before the lockdown, Knorish had around 500 content creators, a number which has now skyrocketed by over 12x to 6,500, illustrating how Covid has accelerated the transition of content monetisation away from the offline world to online. Kinner shares fascinating case studies on several "academies" created on Knorish, be it by chefs, yoga instructors,

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S5 Ep85: How Edtech Startups in India Became the Next...

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2020/09/10

The embrace of technology by fields of learning and education has transpired on an accelerated basis during COVID-19, allowing startups in India with a strong edtech core, including equipment for virtual online classes and smart classrooms, to be well positioned to benefit from this behavioural shift. Testbook.com - an end-to-end learning platform with a focus on Government job entrance exams, is one such company. Luckily we had a chance to catch up with Testbook's Co-Founder and CEO Ashutosh

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S5 Ep84: Conversation with YouTuber Mukul Malik on...

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2020/09/03

Mukul Malik runs Asset Yogi, a Finance focused YouTube channel with over 1.45 million subscribers. We try to understand his secret sauce to crack video content on finance and his take on the Indian markets in a post-COVID world through this fascinating chat. Mukul talks about his journey to-date, his strategy on content and business, the market pain points when it comes to financial awareness, and the commitment it takes to figure out one's audience. As fellow content creators, we loved every

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S5 Ep83: How Agriculture in India Went Right and...

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2020/08/31

Aneesh Jain runs an agricultural value chain services business which serves over 150,000 Indian farmers across six states. With a front row seat to the impact of recent agriculture reforms announced by the Government...he's a credible sounding board to talk of the so-called rural revival narrative resonating in mainstream business media in the months after the coronavirus pandemic struck. Aneesh brings to light the complex undercurrents making agriculture in India what it is, thus preferring a

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S5 Ep82: Post Pandemic Global Markets and A Strategy...

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2020/08/24

Abhijeet Awasthi's LinkedIn page describes him as a Corporate Dealer (FX & Interest Rates) at FirstRand Bank...but it is his ability to write great emails that got us in touch. He sends a fascinating email to his clients each morning, with commentary and his take on significant happenings affecting world markets. Wanting to put a differentiated spin to this rather tedious morning ritual, he took an unconventional approach when it came to structuring and positioning his content. Over time, the

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S5 Ep81: Elliot Alderson on Aarogya Setu Privacy...

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2020/08/11

Baptiste Robert (aka Elliot Alderson aka @fs0c131y) has developed somewhat of a cult personality and following in India i.e. ever since he flagged data security and privacy issues within COVID-19 contact tracing Aarogya Setu app and the much wider Aadhaar ecosystem. We catch up with Baptiste to learn his take on the Government's tricky relationship with citizens' data, the philosophy (and process) behind his work as an ethical hacker, and his thoughts on the privacy debate raging within India and

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S5 Ep80: Watching Indian Startups Amid the...

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2020/07/08

In the latest "work-from-home" episode of LongShorts, we catch up with "serial entrepreneur" Yatin Thakur, probably one of the most positive speakers we've ever had on our Podcast! As the Managing Director of Global Entrepreneurship Network India and Founder of coworking office space startup CoworkIn (which incidentally happens to be where we at TRANSFIN. have set shop), Yatin is no stranger to startup ventures. He began his entrepreneurial journey when he was only 16. So, back in 2003 when the

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S5 Ep79: Demise of Movie Theaters Amidst the Rise of...

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2020/05/29

We catch up with Professor Madhu Viswanathan, Assistant Professor of Marketing from ISB Hyderabad to discuss his journey - starting as an engineer to a gig as a CAT/GMAT instructor to working in software to becoming a B-School Prof! On the way we touch upon the ever changing shades of News and Entertainment content through the lens of product, brand building, business models, and pricing. Madhu was previously an Assistant Professor at the University of Arizona, and has a Phd from the University

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