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June 10, 2021
Episode 151 - The Fintech Network Built for SMB Payments - Marwan Forzley, Veem
We continue our fintech series on how fintechs deliver payments services that were formerly brought to market by banks or were just unavailable.
April 28, 2021
Episode 149 - Bringing Data to Secure A2A Transactions - Eli Polanco, Nivelo
The U.S. is moving faster than ever into seamless, account-to-account payments. That means enterprises and their payments providers are able to initiate a payment from one bank account and direct it to another. Think payroll. Think supply chain.
April 21, 2021
Episode 148 - The Fintech Bringing Crypto and Diem to Payments Users - Ran Goldi, First
2021 will be remembered as the year that cryptocurrencies become a full time presence on Wall Street and a top agenda item at the world’s central banks.
The potential for cryptocurrencies to digitally enable the financial lives of world’s 1.7 billion unbanked is gaining interest as well as increasing incumbent concern.
March 19, 2021
Episode 147 - The Apps of the Card World: Closed Loop Prepaid - Dom Morea, Fiserv
Prepaid cards are the "apps" of the card world. Join George and Fiserv's Head of Prepaid Dom Morea as they introduce prepaid's twin modalities - open loop and closed loop - and then dive into how the gift card industry has morphed into a far broader set of uses cases. And plan to return for the next episode as they discuss open loop's evolution.
March 3, 2021
Episode 146 - Multiplayer Fintech Builds a Winning B2B Service - Robin Gandhi, TripActions
In our payments education workshops, we make the point that today's fintechs rarely do something entirely new. At the macro level, our activities and the transactions they produce haven't changed. We buy food and clothing. We pay rent.
September 25, 2020
Episode 132 - Glenbrook's Erin McCune Talks B2B with Cit's Tony McLaughlin
This Payments on Fire® podcast is a joint production of Citibank and Glenbrook. Tony McLaughlin of Citibank interviewed our partner Erin McCune about the U.S. payments market and business transactions in particular.
March 31, 2020
Episode 118 - Third Annual RTP Network Update - TCH's Steve Ledford
Welcome to Payments on Fire® and to our third, now annual, discussion with Steve Ledford, SVP Products and Strategy at The Clearing House, and the leader of his company's Real Time Payment Network initiative.
November 19, 2019
Episode 108 - B2B Payments for the Massive Insurance Segment - Jeff Brown, VPay
Join Jeff Brown, president of VPay, a firm specializing in insurance claims payments, and George Peabody of Glenbrook Partners in this deep dive discussion of how the work of claims processing is done and how he approaches B2B payments, compliance, and the value-added services needed by the company's customers.
October 18, 2019
Episode 104 - The Complex World of Healthcare Payments - Ian Drysdale, Zelis Payments
Take a listen to Ian Drysdale of Zelis Payments and George as they discuss how complex the payments process is in the healthcare industry.
April 12, 2019
Episode 90 - PSD2 Enables Fintech Competitors - Myles Stephenson, Modulr
The U.K. and the EU take a very different approach to payments industry evolution than here in the States; the former directed by government mandate, the latter by marketplace dynamics and the lighter touch of regulators. But both are responding, at different speeds, to the need of fintechs and enterprises for access to bank-based data and services.
March 26, 2019
Episode 89 - Growing a Fintech Business for Small Business Cross-Border Payments by Outgrowing the Blockchain - Marwan Forzley, Veem
Cross-border B2B payments are frustrating, time consuming, and expensive, especially for small and medium businesses. To dig into why and what's being done to overcome those concerns, join George and Marwan Forzley, CEO of Veem, for an explanation.
October 25, 2018
Episode 81 - Real-Time Payments Network Update - Steve Ledford, TCH
For those of you who didn't make it to Money20/20 and want to hear the latest on The Clearing House's Real-Time Payments Network (RTP), take a listen to this update conversation with Steve Ledford, SVP at The Clearing House for the RTP Network.
January 24, 2018
Episode 71 - The Tech Bringing B2B Fintech to the Mid-tier Bank - Lisa Shields, FI.SPAN
Mid-market financial institutions have enormously strong relationships with their banking customers. But their size makes home grown IT difficult because it is simply too hard, and too costly, to meet all the B2B finance needs of their enterprise customers.
January 19, 2018
Episode 70 - Real-time Cross-border Payments - Laurence Cooke of nanopay
"Digital cash" has been a dream of the internet age for, well, almost the entire internet age. That goal requires instant payment settlement. It's more than just sending a message that a payment has happened; it means the money has actually moved.
October 19, 2017
Episode 64 - B2B Payments Innovation - Modulr
The intersection of new tech, faster payments capabilities, and forward looking regulation is enabling significant innovation in B2B, and consumer, payment services in the UK and EU.
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