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.com
• GTD or Getting Things Done - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getting_Things_Done  
• Disciplined Entrepreneurship by Bill Aulet - https://www.d-eship.com
• Simon 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

Acknowledgements

Music 

Title: First Take

Artist: Debajyoti Biswas and Michael O'Neill

Source:  mis.aup3

License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Cover Art 

Title: Complex collage

Artist: Allen Higgins

Source: DanManakau.pptx

License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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