Totally humbled and privileged to be talking to the APAC CIO and Managing Director of Daiwa Capital Markets John Zendano today. He started his career with the United States Air Force loading C130 cargo planes and got his first taste of finance and Investment Banking by working for Nomura as an Operations Clerk in 1983. He has since been making

Often in our line of work as Tech Recruiters, we tend to work with HR professionals but we mainly see them as “interview coordinators” or the ones who eventually come up with the salaries after all the interviews are done. But, there’s plenty more to HR and today on the podcast, we have Mugdha Karanjekar who was an HR business

Today on the podcast we have Anik Dey who is the Head of Product at EMOS.ai which is an AI startup backed by Hong Kong Science Park and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and aims to accurately detect human emotions by analyzing verbal and non-verbal cues in a video. We want to ask Anik a few questions about

Today we have Chet Bondada on the show. He’s head of Prime Finance Tech for Deutsche Bank in Hong Kong. He’s also someone who’s extremely passionate about Finance Technology in general and a mentor to FinTech startups in Hong Kong. Today, the goal of our podcast is to unpack some of the jargon we hear about FinTech. We’re going to

As we are trying our best to accomplish various things in life like climbing up the career ladder or trying to run the next ultra marathon or planning the next awesome vacation, we sometimes tend to take life for granted. We assume we will continue to be hale and healthy, we assume that nothing will rock the boat of our

Today on the podcast I have Daniel Bar with me. He is an entrepreneur  who is particularly interested in disruptive technologies in the FinTech space. He is the co-founder of the blockchain community Bitfwd and a co-founder of Tenzorum, a start-up that aims to use key management protocols to ensure safe personalized access to blockchain technologies Daniel’s background: Can you

How to write a good technical CV? In this podcast, we cover what it takes to write a good technical CV. Topics covered: Why should you write a Technical CV What is a Technical CV Meat of the podcast CLEAR – Clarity, Length, Explanation / Expansion, Accuracy, Relevance Common Mistakes people make on their CVs FAQ: Should we put a

Stephen Langley was in a leadership role with IBM (London) in the past and after his move to Hong Kong, he became the deputy CIO of the Securities and Future Commission (SFC). He did that for close to 5 years before moving onto a different role within SFC. He now leads the Data Analytics team at SFC.   His Linked

“High Frequency Trading” /  “Market Making” – we’ve heard that term quite a lot in the Electronic Trading Systems space but what does it exactly mean and what does it take to be a good HFT trader or a market maker?   We’ve got Scott Christensen, the CIO Hanpa Trading to help answer those questions. Scott used to work as

Today on the podcast we are honored to have with us Lukas Petrikas who is the co-head of Innovation at Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited or better known as HKEX. His Linked In profile summary explains what he does best. “I look for creative business models and disruptive technology innovations that can deliver value and open new opportunities for