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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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Agentic Commerce Explained with Sanjay Saraf, SVP & Global Chief Product Officer for Merchant Solutions at Fiserv | Episode 477
The moment AI agents can buy things for us, payments stop being a simple “click to pay” problem and become a trust problem. Greg Myers sits down with Sanjay…
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Ran Grushkowsky, Co-Founder & CEO of MassPay | Episode 476
Most payments teams obsess over money in, then act surprised when slow payouts drive churn, support tickets, and lost growth. Greg Myers sits down with Ran…
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Cihan Duezguen, CEO & Co-Founder of Green Banana | Episode 475
Your BNPL strategy can’t be “pick one provider and hope.” When you sell across borders, buy now pay later becomes a payments infrastructure problem: different…
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The Signal: Embedded Finance - From Fragmented To Unified with Jaris Executives, Chris Aristides and Matt Thomas | Episode 474
Payments is full of noise: legacy processors, vendor sprawl, duplicate onboarding, and merchants who just want their money faster. We cut through it by showing…
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The Signal: The Reality Behind Platform Fraud with Jess Kirkpatrick, Worldpay | Episode 473
Fraud doesn’t wait for your roadmap. We sat down with Jess Kirkpatrick, VP of Risk and Fraud at Worldpay now part of Global Payments, to unpack how platforms…
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Special Series: The Trust Advantage with David Edwards, SVP Information Security at Payroc | Episode 472
What does it actually take to secure a payments company in an era of sophisticated, well-funded cybercriminals? In this first episode of The Trust Advantage…
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Ismael Wrixen, CEO of Thrivecart | Episode 471
What if checkout was the growth engine instead of an add-on? We sit down with Ismael Wrixen, CEO of ThriveCart, to explore how a payments-first platform can…
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The Signal: Embedded Finance - Building the Infrastructure Layer with Jaris Founder & CEO Chris Aristides | Episode 470
In this first episode of a new series on the Leaders in Payments podcast, host Greg Myers sits down with Chris Aristides, Founder and CEO of Jaris, to explore…
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The New Rules of Ecommerce with Alex Dewison, Global Payments | Episode 469
In this episode of the Leaders in Payments podcast, host Greg Myers sits down with Alex Dewison, Director of Digital Solutions at Global Payments, to explore…
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The Signal: Embedded Finance: Lending as a Platform Feature with Aarati Soman, Parafin & Jaron Ruckman, NMI | Episode 468
Payments leaders are feeling the squeeze of shrinking margins, price-driven churn, and rising expectations from merchants who want funding that feels as…
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The Signal: The Real "Payment Meets Fraud" Journey with Brian Rust at Worldpay | Episode 467
Fraud hasn’t disappeared - it got smarter. Organized rings now aim upstream at SaaS platforms and ISVs that embed payments, where a single gap in onboarding…
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Viktoria Soltesz, Founder & CEO of PSP Angels | Episode 466
Ever launched a beautiful product only to watch payments derail the experience? We sat with Viktoria Soltesz - founder of PSP Angels and the Soltesz Institute…
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The Signal: Untangling B2B Payments: Why Complexity Persists & How to Fix It with Fauwaz Hussain, Global Payments | Episode 465
If your AR feels like a maze of phone calls, spreadsheets, and “we’ll match it later,” this conversation shows a cleaner path. We sit down with Fauwaz Hussain…
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Special Series: The Future of Modern Payments with Pat Antonacci, Chief Product Officer at The Clearing House | Episode 464
Money keeps moving while the world sleeps, and the rails behind it are evolving fast. We sit down with Pat Antonacci, Chief Product Officer at The Clearing…
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The Signal: What's New for Platforms & Payments featuring Matt Downs of Global Payments | Episode 463
In this Signal Series episode of the Leaders in Payments Podcast, I sit down with Matt Downs, President, Integrated and Platforms at Global Payments, to unpack…
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Farooq Malik, Co-Founder & CEO of Rain | Episode 462
Money is changing faster than most teams can update a roadmap. We sit down with Farooq Malik, Co-Founder and CEO of Rain, to unpack how stablecoins and…
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Andrew Helms, CEO, USA at SumUp | Episode 461
Forget the hype - small merchants need tools that actually work when a line forms and a card won’t tap. Andrew Helms, CEO USA at SumUp digs into a…
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Edward Woodford, CEO and Founder of zerohash | Episode 460
Money that waits for Monday is losing ground to rails that never sleep. Greg sits down with Edward Woodford, CEO and Founder of zerohash, to explore how…
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Afshin Yazdian, CEO of Kurv | Episode 459
Payments shouldn’t feel like a maze. We sit down with Kurv’s CEO, Afshin Yazdian, to unpack how a legacy “lifestyle business” evolved into a modern payments…
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Keith Raphael, Co-founder & CEO of Straddle | Episode 458
What if account-to-account payments felt as dependable as swiping a card? We sit down with Keith Raphael, Co-founder and CEO of Straddle, to explore how a…
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Special Series: The Future of Modern Payments featuring Block and JP Morgan Payments | Episode 457
Cash flow used to mean waiting and worrying. Today, it can mean deciding and doing. We sit down with Ana Garcia of JPMorgan Payments and James Chi of Block to…
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THE SIGNAL: Payments as the Small Business OS with US Bank's Shruti Patel | Episode 456
The backbone of the economy is feeling both confident and squeezed, and we wanted to get specific about what actually helps. In this episode I sit down with…
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THE SIGNAL: Turning SaaS into a Payments Powerhouse with NMI | Episode 455
In this episode, we dig into how modern SaaS platforms turn payments into a core product, a revenue engine, and a defensible moat without breaking customer…
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Peter Dougherty, President of Spreedly | Episode 454
Growth shouldn’t stall at the border. We sit down with Peter Dougherty, President of Spreedly, to unpack how an open payments platform helps global brands…
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THE SIGNAL: SaaS is Dead, Long Live SaaS + Payments | Episode 453
Subscriptions aren’t enough anymore. We dig into why the next wave of software winners are building full commerce platforms where payments are invisible to…
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Robert Bueninck, CEO of Unzer | Episode 452
If you run a small or mid-sized retail business and feel stuck between legacy tools and rising customer expectations, this conversation is your playbook for…
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THE SIGNAL: Fraud Frontlines: The Fed's Perspective on Fraud Today with Mike Timoney | Episode 451
Fraud losses are climbing, checks are supposedly fading, and yet check fraud is hitting all-time highs. We sat down with Mike Timoney, a payments veteran now…
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THE SIGNAL: Embedded Payments, No Spin: From Integration to Innovation with NMI | Episode 450
Most software teams still think of payments as a chore. We take you inside the playbook that turns it into a growth engine. I sits down with NMI CTO Phillip…
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Episode 449 | Jess Houlgrave, CEO of WalletConnect
What if paying with crypto felt as effortless as tapping your card? We sit down with Jess Houlgrave, CEO of WalletConnect, to unpack how stablecoins, smarter…
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Paytech Women Leadership Summit Day 2 | Episode 448
Recorded live from the PayTech Women Leadership Summit in Atlanta, this episode brings together an inspiring cross-section of executives, founders, coaches…
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THE SIGNAL: Token Takeover, The Rise of Network Tokens with G+D, NMI and Mastercard | Episode 447
Payments shouldn’t break just because a card changes. We sat down with leaders from NMI, G+D and Mastercard to unpack how network tokenization has moved far…
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Miles Paschini, CEO of FV Bank | Episode 446
Money shouldn’t take days to arrive while business waits. We sit down with Miles Paschini, CEO and co-founder of FV Bank, to unpack how a licensed digital bank…
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Special Series: The Future of Modern Payments with Sal Karakaplan, Chief Strategy Officer at The Clearing House
Money doesn’t just move; it travels across rules, rails, and risk decisions that either create trust or destroy it. In the first of three episodes, we sit down…
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PayTech Women Leadership Summit Day One | Episode 444
Recorded live from the PayTech Women Leadership Summit in Atlanta, we bring you a rapid, energizing tour of leadership lessons from executives, board members…
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Special Series: Focus. Build. Win. with Andie Hill and John Barrett at Payroc | Episode 443
The fastest way to win more ISO and agent deals isn’t adding more vendors; it’s sharpening the story. We sit down with John Barrett and Andie Hill from Payroc…
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David Rintel, CEO of Finby | Episode 442
Europe isn’t one payments market; it’s dozens of overlapping preferences, currencies, and rails that can make cross‑border growth feel like threading a needle…
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Special Series: Focus. Build. Win. with James Derby, EVP, Merchant Facing Product at Payroc | Episode 441
In the second episode in our three part series titled: Focus. Build. Win, I sit down with James Derby, EVP of Merchant Facing Product at Payroc, to unpack how…
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THE SIGNAL: U.S. to LATAM — PPRO’s Cross-Border Advantage
The U.S.-to-LATAM corridor is heating up fast, and the rules of getting paid are changing even faster. We sit down with PPRO’s Therese Hudak to unpack fresh…
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Special Series: Focus. Build. Win. with Jim Oberman, CEO of Payroc | Episode 439
If you’ve ever tried to pivot a payments company from vendor sprawl to a product-led core, you know the hardest part isn’t the code - it’s the conviction. Greg…
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Kevin Sisk, President of Bill360 | Episode 438
Cash flow shouldn’t depend on how many supplier portals your customers force you to use. We sit down with Bill360 president Kevin Sisk to unpack how true…
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Ruston Miles, Founder, Chief Strategy & Development Officer at Bluefin | Episode 437
Ruston Miles, Founder and Chief Strategy and Development Officer at Bluefin and I start with the origin story: telecom roots, fiber‑rich Tulsa, and the…
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Special Series: Powering Payments Together with Leslie Legel, Dir. of Payments at CenterEdge Software | Episode 436
In the final episode of Powering Payments Together: How Payroc Helps ISVs Scale Smarter, we turn the spotlight on CenterEdge Software and their journey to…
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Special Series: Modern Finance with John Rubinetti, President of B2B Payments at Deluxe | Episode 435
Bridging the gap between Treasury, Accounts Receivable, and Accounts Payable represents the critical "last mile" in financial automation. John Rubenetti…
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Brandon Spear, CEO of TreviPay | Episode 434
Dive into the transformative world of B2B payments with Brandon Spear, CEO of TreviPay, as he reveals how their platform is revolutionizing trade credit for…
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Leigh Amaro, Head of North America at Swift | Episode 433
Swift's colossal impact on global finance remains largely invisible to most people, yet its messaging infrastructure moves the world's entire GDP every 2-3…
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Special Series: Powering Payments Together with Conn Byrne, Executive Director, Integrated Payments at Payroc | Episode 432
In this revealing conversation with Conn Byrne, Executive Director of Integrated Payments at Payroc, we uncover the secret sauce behind their remarkably…
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Modern Finance: AP Automation with Steve Buchberger and Heather Dawood from Deluxe | Episode 431
Our Modern Finance series continues with episode three, featuring Steve Buchberger and Heather Dawood from Deluxe. We explored why more than 80% of businesses…
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Special Series: Powering Payments Together with Adam Oberman, President of Payroc | Episode 430
In the first episode of our three-part series with Payroc, Powering Payments Together: How Payroc Helps ISVs Scale Smarter, I sit down with Payroc President…
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John Caplan, CEO of Payoneer | Episode 429
What happens when you give ambitious entrepreneurs around the world the financial tools previously reserved for multinational corporations? John Caplan, CEO of…
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Jonathan O'Connor, Division President, Third-Party Payments at Synovus | Episode 428
Jonathan O'Connor brings a unique global perspective to the payments landscape as Division President of Third-Party Payments at Synovus, the oldest bank in…
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AI in Payments Series: Featuring Payarc Co-Founder & President, Jared Ronski | Episode 427
Jared Ronski, Co-founder and President of Payarc, takes us behind the scenes of how modern payment technology is empowering independent sales agents and…
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Special Series: Modern Finance with Pat Moye, Executive Director of Product Innovation, Receivables at Deluxe | Episode 426
Pat Moye, Executive Director of Product Innovation at Deluxe, unveils the surprising reality of accounts receivable departments still trapped in manual…
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AI in Payments Series: Featuring Payarc VP of ISV, Zac Schneiderman | Episode 425
Zac Schneiderman shares a deeply personal journey from political science student to VP of ISV at Payarc, where he's become a driving force behind the company's…
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Taylor Lauber, CEO of Shift4 | Episode 424
Ever wonder what it takes to transform a basement startup into a global payments powerhouse processing over a quarter trillion dollars annually? In this…
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Eyal Lifshitz, CEO of Bluevine | Episode 423
Stepping into the world of small business banking requires a fresh perspective, and that's exactly what Eyal Lifshitz brought when he founded Bluevine twelve…
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Special Series: Modern Finance with Yogs Jayaprakasam, SVP, Chief Technology & Digital Officer at Deluxe | Episode 422
We’re proud to kick off our four-part Modern Finance series with a conversation with Deluxe's Yogs Jayaprakasam, SVP, Chief Technology & Digital Officer. AI…
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James Neville, CEO of Yaspa | Episode 421
What happens when you combine lightning-fast payments with sophisticated identity verification? James Neville, CEO of Yaspa, reveals how his company is…
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Women Leaders inPayments: Alisa Barber, CMO at Paysafe | Episode 420
From her journey through marketing roles at large payments companies to building out the marketing function at Paysafe, Alisa Barber, CMO reveals the…
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Women Leaders in Payments: Monika Liikamaa, Co-Founder & Co-CEO at Enfuce | Episode 419
“This episode contains explicit language and may not be suitable for all audiences.” The journey from developer to co-CEO of a global payments provider isn't…
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Women Leaders in Payments: Kari Wilhelm, SVP of Data Strategy & Commercialization at Worldpay | Episode 418
Redefining leadership requires authenticity, cross-functional collaboration, and a willingness to embrace non-linear career paths. Kari Wilhelm, SVP of Data…