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Leaders In Payments
Hear directly from C-level executives in payments/fintech about industry trends, successful strategies, products, services, and what the future holds for the payments/fintech industry. We cover the entire industry from merchant acquiring, payment processing, ISOs, payfacs, fraud, security, issuing, b2b, fintech, to start-ups, if it goes on in payments we will be talking about it.
Episodes
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Turning Hotel AP Into a Profit Center with Brian Dass & John Jamieson from OneJourney | Episode 537
Hotels don’t lose money only on empty rooms. They lose it in the back office, where dozens of disconnected systems force teams into spreadsheets, manual…
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Special Series: The Trust Advantage - Building Trust Through People with Angela Antrim, Payroc | Episode 536
Trust gets harder when your company stops feeling small. When teams spread across time zones, layers appear, and acquisitions bring in new colleagues…
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Stablecoin Infrastructure for Real-World Payments with Anna Kratky Strebl, Confirmo | Episode 535
Stablecoins are no longer a side project for crypto-native companies, they’re turning into serious payment rails for global business. I sit down with Anna…
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Agentic Development For Payments with Casey Conley, Payroc | Episode 534
Payments integrations have a reputation for being slow, fragile, and painfully dependent on specialists. We wanted to challenge that assumption, so we sat down…
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Embedded Finance Series: Banking & Lending with Sunil Sachdev, Fiserv | Episode 533
Payments used to be the big unlock for vertical SaaS. Now it is the baseline, and the real question is what you build on top of it. I sit down with Sunil…
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Investable Embedded Finance with Jane Podbelskaya, Charge Forward & Jake Colognesi, Mamba | Episode 532
Your software might be the system of record, but if someone else owns the money movement, your growth is capped. Greg Myers sits down with Jane Podbelskaya…
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Payments Infrastructure Defined with Ben Griefer, Maverick | Episode 531
Payments doesn’t usually fail because of one big mistake. It fails quietly through a thousand small frictions: too many processing relationships, too many…
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Embedded Finance Special Series: From Features to Revenue Engine with Ali Mast & Ashley Willson, Revolv
Embedded finance can be the cleanest growth lever a software platform has, but most teams discover the hard way that launching payments is the easy part. Real…
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Embedded Finance That Scales with Jane Podbelskaya, Charge Forward | Episode 529
This conversation is part of a three-part series about Embedded Finance that Jane Podbelskaya and I are launching leading up to Embedify 2026, our summit for…
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The Trust Advantage with Andie Hill, Payroc | Episode 528
Trust can be the difference between getting “a couple test deals” and becoming the payments partner an agent builds a business on. Greg Myers sits down with…
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Embedded Finance Special Series: Embedded Accounting, the Next Big Fintech Product with Justin Meretab, Layer | Episode 527
QuickBooks and spreadsheets aren’t failing because small business owners don’t care. They fail because owners are busy running the business, and “keeping the…
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Embedded Finance: From Hype to Execution with Jane Podbelskaya, Charge Forward | Episode 526
This conversation is part of a three-part series about Embedded Finance that Jane and I are launching leading up to Embedify 2026, our summit for vertical SaaS…
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Verified Authority for Payments with Jeremy Blackburn, ChainIT | Episode 525
Real-time payments are finally delivering what everyone asked for: near-instant settlement. But when the buffer disappears, a new risk takes center stage: not…
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Going Local to Go Global with João Del Valle, EBANX | Episode 524
Your “global” checkout is only as strong as its most local payment method. I’m joined by João Del Valle , CEO of EBANX, to unpack what really happens when a…
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Special Series: The Trust Advantage - When Trust Wins in Payments with Darrel Anderson, Payroc | Episode 523
Trust is the hidden advantage that decides which payments companies earn bigger merchants, stronger partners, and more room to innovate. Greg Myers sits down…
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Embedded Finance Special Series: Owning the Payments Experience with John Badovinac, Flute | Episode 522
This episode is part of our Embedded Finance Podcast Series, exploring the strategies, opportunities and challenges shaping the future of embedded finance. The…
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Skip the LinkedIn FOMO and Go To WSAA 2026, with Amanda Beam, Exectras | Episode 521
Your LinkedIn feed will be full of “great to see you” posts after WSAA 2026, but the real value happens before the photos, in the hallways and late-night…
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Insurance Payments Simplified with Todd Greenbaum, Input 1 | Episode 520
Insurance payments are one of the last places you’d expect to still see mountains of paper checks and yet that’s exactly what Todd Greenbaum says is happening…
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Embedded Finance Special Series: Where AI Really Works in Embedded Payments with Ankita Chowdhry, Payabli | Episode 519
Payments is full of “after-the-fact” reporting, but we want a world where the system warns you before the damage is done. I’m joined by Ankita Chowdhry, AI…
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Modern Payments Infrastructure For Banks with Vijay Oddiraju, CEO & Co-Founder of Volante | Episode 518
Legacy payments platforms do not usually fail with a dramatic outage. They fail by slowing every change request, inflating every integration, and turning…
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Payments Performance That Moves Revenue with Klas Bäck, CEO & Co-Founder of Pagos | Episode 517
Payments can be your second or third biggest cost line and one of your biggest levers for growth, yet most companies still treat payment performance like an…
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Embedded Finance Special Series: How vSaaS Turn Payments into Growth with Marni Mullikin, Maverick | Episode 516
Embedded finance is booming, but most platforms miss the point: customers do not want more financial products, they want fewer steps. We sit down with Marni…
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Instant Bank-to-Bank Payments with Arpit Goel, CEO of Root | Episode 515
Waiting three to five days for funds isn’t just annoying, it quietly reshapes entire business models. I sit down with Arpit Goel, CEO of Root, to unpack why…
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Embedded Finance Special Series: Embedded Payments That Work with Conn Byrne, Payroc | Episode 514
This episode is part of our Embedded Finance Podcast Series, exploring the strategies, opportunities and challenges shaping the future of embedded finance. The…
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Building the Trust Layer for Payments with Noam Izhaki, CEO of Ballerine | Episode 513
Merchant onboarding is where growth goes to die, and where fraud quietly sneaks in. We sit down with Noam Izhaki, Co-founder and CEO of Ballerine, to unpack…
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Women Leaders in Payments: The Future is Human with Marielle Mekkaoui, Payabli | Episode 512
Payments is getting smarter, faster, and more automated and that makes one question feel urgent: where does trust come from when the tech starts acting on our…
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Women Leaders in Payments: The Future is Human with Jaime Hawkins, Ingenico | Episode 511
Checkout is getting faster, smarter, and more invisible, but the stakes feel more human than ever. We talk with Jaime Hawkins, Managing Director, North America…
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Women Leaders in Payments: The Future is Human with Ann Berkmeier, Dash Solutions | Episode 510
Payments are getting smoother on the surface, but the real story is what happens underneath when something changes, breaks, or needs to scale fast. That’s why…
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Women Leaders in Payments: The Future is Human with Garima Chaudhary, Thetaray | Episode 509
AI is racing into payments, but the uncomfortable truth is that speed without trust turns into risk fast. We sit down with Garima Chaudhary, VP of Financial…
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Women Leaders in Payments: The Future is Human with Kim Molinaro, Fiserv | Episode 508
Payments are not just transactions anymore. They are software experiences, API connections, and full business operating systems, and that shift changes what…
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Women Leaders in Payments: The Future is Human with Kristin Reischel, Rapyd | Episode 507
Payments look like pure software until you move countries, get hit with fraud, or watch a “guaranteed” settlement date slip. That’s where the real story…
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Women Leaders in Payments: The Future is Human with Clarice Leaman, dLocal | Episode 506
Payments don’t fail as an abstract metric. They fail for a freelancer waiting to get paid, a small business trying to accept the locally normal method, or a…
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Women Leaders in Payments: The Future is Human with Kimling Lam, Fortis | Episode 505
Payments are getting smarter and more automated, but the real question is simpler: are we making life easier for the humans behind every transaction? For Women…
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Women Leaders in Payments: The Future is Human with Rachel Costello, Maverick | Episode 504
Payments are getting faster and more automated, but the hardest part still isn’t the tech. It’s trust. We talk with Rachel Costello, VP of Platform Growth at…
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Women Leaders in Payments: The Future is Human with Alexandra Dolia, Akurateco | Episode 503
A failed payment is never just a technical error. It’s a customer stuck at checkout, a merchant losing revenue, and a moment where trust is either reinforced…
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Women Leaders in Payments: The Future is Human with Alex McCandless, Payroc | Episode 502
Payments look instant and invisible until something goes wrong. That’s when you find out whether you’re working with a faceless system or a team you can…
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Women Leaders in Payments: The Future is Human with Gunita Bindra, Bottomline | Episode 501
Payments are getting smarter, faster, and more automated, but the stakes are still deeply human. I sit down with Gunita Bindra, CRO of Paymode New Business…
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The State of Payments: Shifts, Friction & The Road Ahead | Episode 500
In this milestone 500th episode of the Leaders in Payments Podcast, I bring together seven respected leaders from across the payments ecosystem for a special…
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What Would It Take For Insurers To Go Fully Digital? with Ian Drysdale, CEO of One Inc. | Episode 499
Checks still power a shocking amount of insurance money movement, and that single fact creates slow claims, higher operating costs, and an open door for fraud…
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The Financial Connectivity Layer with Jose Bethancourt, Co-Founder & CEO of Method | Episode 498
Mailing checks to pay off a credit card in 2026 sounds like a joke, but it is still a real debt consolidation workflow at scale. Greg Myers sits down with Jose…
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Fighting Fraud with Tamas Kadar, Co-Founder & CEO of SEON | Episode 497
Fraud doesn’t usually announce itself with a flashing warning sign. It shows up as a chargeback, a fake account that looks “normal,” or an account takeover…
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Merchants Can Get Paid Instantly While Cutting Fraud with CEO, Marshall Greenwald, IoniaPay | Episode 496
A “successful” card payment can still leave merchants waiting days to actually access their money, paying layers of fees along the way, and carrying fraud risk…
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Automating B2B Accounts Receivable with Thomas Cecil, Co-Founder of PAYRA | Episode 495
A $400,000 B2B card payment sounds simple until a processor flags it, the finance team cannot reconcile it, and the invoice sits open while DSO creeps up. That…
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AI You Can Trust, Audit and Keep with Russell Moore, Co-Founder & CEO of Amotivv | Episode 494
AI is moving from “helpful assistant” to autonomous actor, and payments leaders are about to feel the difference. I sit down with Russell Moore, Co-Founder and…
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Customer Engagement Through Payments with Mike Milotich, CEO of Marqeta | Episode 493
Payments don’t fail because teams lack ambition, they fail because the infrastructure can’t keep up with what customers expect. We sit down with Mike Milotich…
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How BNY Simplifies Global Money Movement With Jennifer Barker, Global Head of Payments & Trade & Depositary Receipts | Episode 492
Payments are speeding up everywhere, but the real story is what that speed breaks and what it demands from the people running the rails. I’m joined by Jennifer…
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The Disbursements Playbook with Stephen Faust, CEO of Dash Solutions | Episode 491
Paper checks are the easiest payment method to hate and one of the hardest to remove. They are slow, expensive, fraud-prone, and deeply baked into legacy…
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Inside Institutional Payments At Scale with Debo Sen, Head of Payments, Services, Citi | Episode 490
Moving money is easy to describe and brutally hard to do well at global scale. When your network supports thousands of clients across 90+ countries and touches…
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The Mid Market Tech Gap with David Robinson, Founder of Stratos Development Group | Episode 489
The mid-market is where tech decisions get dangerous. You are big enough that uptime, security, and delivery speed matter every day, but you are not big enough…
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Stablecoin Rails For Real-World Payouts with Cyril Mathew, Co-Founder & CEO of Latitude | Episode 488
Cross-border payouts are one of those problems everyone complains about and then quietly accepts: high fees, slow settlement, and endless workarounds to get…
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Special Series: The Trust Advantage - Surcharging Done Right with Jim Oberman, CEO, Payroc | Episode 487
A “credit card fee” can protect your margins or quietly create compliance risk, and the difference usually comes down to one word: clarity. We sit down with…
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How Banks Can Make Stablecoin Payments Safe & Compliant with Peter Glyman, Founder & CEO at Coinbax | Episode 486
Final settlement sounds great until you’re the one holding the fraud and compliance risk. That tension sits at the heart of my conversation with Pete Glyman…
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Gift Cards As Payment Rails with Alex Preece, CEO & Co-Founder of Tillo | Episode 485
Gift cards have a branding problem and it’s costing the payments world a big idea. Alex Preece, CEO and Co-Founder of Tillo, joins us to make the case that…
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Stablecoins For Enterprise Payments with Tony Tom, CRO and Co-Founder of Stable Sea | Episode 484
“Instant” payments are usually a well-designed illusion. The customer experience feels real-time, but behind the scenes money still crawls through delayed…
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How vSaaS Platforms are Reshaping Business Operations & the Critical Role of Payments with Brad Pinneke at Worldpay | Ep 483
Vertical SaaS wins when it feels like it was built by someone who has actually done the job, and that same principle is reshaping payments and fintech. We sit…
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Rich Clow, Head of Innovation & Strategy, Global Payments Solutions at Bank of America | Episode 482
The payments world is full of shiny objects. The hard part is deciding what actually matters to clients and then delivering it safely at global scale. I’m…
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Get Paid Faster with Garima Shah, President and Co-Founder of Biller Genie | Episode 481
Waiting 47 days to get paid for work you already finished is more than annoying, it’s a cash-flow killer. I sat down with Garima Shah, President and Co-Founder…
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Special Series: The Trust Advantage with Brock Robertson, Chief Revenue Officer at Payroc | Episode 480
Owning payments sounds like a power move until the real bill shows up. We sit down with Brock Robertson, CRO at Payroc, to unpack how payment strategy for…
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The Signal: Embedded Finance - The real value: ISV customer retention and stickiness with Whitney Ganibegovic, Worldpay | Episode 479
Payments alone rarely make a software platform unforgettable. The moment merchants start using your product to access working capital, manage cash flow, move…
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Stopping Subscription Churn with Charles Rosenblatt, CEO of Butter | Episode 478
Your churn dashboard might be accusing your product of something your payments stack actually did. When a renewal charge fails, customers can disappear even if…