0256 - Talking about Fintech with Dan Evison from Manakau

Today’s hosts are Isabelle Howard and Adam Golden. We are very pleased to welcome Dan Evison, Founder and CEO of Manakau, a Financial Services Delivery and Consulting company based in Ireland.Thank you for coming in to speak to us today Dan. Can you tell us a little about yourself and the story behind starting Manakau?·       You’ve spent your career working in finance.  Could you tell us about the types of financial markets and activities you’ve been involved with? ·       Now let’s get to the premise for this series of talks: For a career in financial markets, can you make a case for the value of knowing a bit about programming (e.g. python)? ·       I want to become a quantitative analyst; What 3 technologies do you consider must-have?·       How is AI going to affect careers in financial services? ·       What advice would you have for a student who wants to work at one of the top financial firms, whether in Dublin, London, Tokyo or New York?   Followed by questions from the audience… Notes, extra questions, and further reading:Manakau - https://www.manakau.comGTD or Getting Things Done - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getting_Things_Done  Disciplined Entrepreneurship by Bill Aulet - https://www.d-eship.comSimon Willison’s blog is a long-running, practical, technical, openly documented experiments with all the AIs and up to the minute-of-the-day review of new GenAI developments -  https://simonwillison.net Getting started on prompt engineering: O’Reilly’s “Prompt Engineering for Generative AI” book by James Phoenix and Michael Taylor AcknowledgementsMusic Title: First TakeArtist: Debajyoti Biswas and Michael O'NeillSource:  mis.aup3License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 Cover Art Title: Complex collageArtist: Allen HigginsSource: DanManakau.pptxLicense: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 Podcast LicenseDesign Talk (dot IE) CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 The license can be viewed at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0By taking part you give permission for your voice to be recorded, for the recording to be edited, and for it to be posted and published as a podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.