Leaders In Payments

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 books” becom

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 leaders on

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 “was the cr

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 fast-growing

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 with Darrel

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 series is

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 conversations wh

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 across larg

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 Product Lead a

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 “simple” upgrade

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 afterthought

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 Mullikin, Dir

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 money movemen

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 series is

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 why the payme

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 behalf? We

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 at Ingenic

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 our convers

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 Crime and Com

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 leadership lo