Waters Wavelength Ep. 327: Standard Chartered’s Mo Rahim

- By Wei-Shen Wong and Anthony Malakian
- 14 Aug 2025

Wei-Shen Wong, Asia editor, and Anthony Malakian, editor-in-chief of WatersTechnology, record a weekly podcast touching on the biggest stories in financial technology.

Waters Wavelength Podcast · Episode 327: Standard Chartered’s Mo Rahim

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This week’s guest is Mo Rahim, group chief data officer at Standard Chartered

0:00 – Tony and Shen talk about recent shows they’ve watched

9:00 – Mo Rahim joins the podcast

13:30 – Understand your core identity

17:00 – People and literacy

19:00 – Get your data right

25:00 – Standard Chartered’s research, partnerships, and innovation pillar

29:00 – Building AI in a safe and responsible way

32:30 – AI is your plus one

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Past 10 episodes:

Episode 326: Connectifi’s Nick Kolba

Episode 325: Octaura’s Brian Bejile

Episode 324: A philosophical conversation about AI

Episode 323: MarketAxess’s Chowdhury and Burke (plus some Cusip updates)

Episode 322: Navigating air travel and cybersecurity

Episode 321: AccessFintech’s Par Cassells

Episode 320: Tradeweb’s Chris Bruner

Episode 319: Bloomberg IB chat and operational resiliency

Episode 318: Hamilton Lane’s Griff Norville

Episode 317: Bitdefender and Transilvania Quantum

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