Fintech Insights & Conversations with Efi Pylarinou

About Fintech Insights & Conversations with Efi Pylarinou

Dr. Efi Pylarinou is a Top Global B2B Fintech & Tech Influencer, Thought Leader, and prolific content creator.No.1 Global Woman Influencer in Finance & the Data conversation by Refinitiv 2019 & 2020. She is included in Onalytica`s 2021, Top 20 Fintech Influencers & in their Top 20 in ‘ Who`s Who in AI’ professional influencers. In 2022, she was included in the Top 50 Digital Futurists list and Top 30 Linkedin Voice by Engatica. A seasoned Wall Street professional & a recognized technology thought leader on innovation topics.She has over 195,000+ followers on Linkedin and 20,000+ on Twitter. Join her on the social platforms https://linktr.ee/Efiglobal

Publisher

Efi Pylarinou

Category

business

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

19 Nov 2020

Latest episode

10 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

191 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   10 Sept 2026

   Paolo Sironi: The Machine's Biggest Hallucination Isn't What You Think!

   In 2021, Paolo Sironi slipped the word "conscious" into the subtitle of a banking book, three years before ChatGPT turned consciousness into the debate of the decade. Quantum Sapiens, his new literary novel, is where he goes deep into concepts that matter more than ever - like knowledge, wisdom, truth, consciousness. And the machine's biggest hallucination, he argues, isn't getting something wrong. It's convincing us it knows anything at all. Paolo has spent 25+ years in financial servi...

2. 

   2 Sept 2026

   On Open Weight Models with Sarbjeet Johal, One Day Before Nvidia Said It Is Buying Hugging Face

   We recorded this conversation with Sarbjeet Johal, top Silicon-Valley based Technology Analyst, the day before Nvidia reportedly agreed to buy Hugging Face, the primary hub for open-weight AI models, for $12.9 billion. That timing matters, because the entire conversation is about open-weight and open source models. Open-weight models are free to download, but Brex's Summer 2026 Benchmark highlighted the tech stack and cost that make open-weight models operational. Sarbjeet return...

3. 

   23 Jul 2026

   Agentic Banking: The Operating System Banks Need Now - with Driss Temsamani

   Agentic Banking is not another AI upgrade for banks. It's a new operating system and most incumbents are still running the old one. In this conversation, Driss Temsamani - Managing Director, Americas Head of Digital at Citi and author of The Agentic Bank which we discussed in the Fintech Book Club in June, explains what actually has to change for banks to become agentic, and why the gap is wider than most executives think. We cover: ▪️ Why 2022 was our Netscape moment — and why this shi...

Who has been a guest on Fintech Insights & Conversations with Efi Pylarinou

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Michael Borelli
• Tony McLaughlin
• Theo Lau
• Spiros Margaris
• Paul Chang

Reach and audience

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YouTube views

406,452

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Podcast Authority Score: 47 / 100

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Quality

49

Social presence

0

YouTube

86

Engagement

27