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June 3, 2022
Episode 169 - Catching Up on the State of Payments - Robin Gandhi, Nium
George and Yvette welcome back Robin Gandhi in this episode of Payments on Fire®. Formerly of TripActions (Episode 146), Robin is now the chief product officer of Nium, a firm specializing in bringing cross-border payments capabilities to banks, fintechs, and large and medium enterprises.
May 12, 2022
Episode 167 - Combating Fraud - Patrick Chen, Spec
In this episode of Payments on Fire®, Yvette Bohanan is joined by Patrick Chen, co-founder of Spec, to discuss payments risk, fraud, and the age-old question of good versus evil. Listen in to hear how organizations can combat fraud while still providing the best customer journey.
April 29, 2022
Episode 166 - Payments Trends & Best Practices - Casey Klyszeiko, Fiserv
In this episode of Payments on Fire®, George Peabody and Yvette Bohanan are talking payment trends and best practices with Fiserv’s Casey Klyszeiko, Head of Carat and eCommerce at Fiserv.
Tune in to hear Casey, a Payments Boot Camp alum himself, discuss the consumer payments journey and the questions merchants should be asking in order to deliver the right payments experience for their customers.
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January 13, 2022
Episode 161 - AI-ML and Bias - Ismini Psychoula, OneSpan
2022 just started and we got so much to see and learn this year. But, we are not alone in this learning journey. Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence are here to stay, so we also should learn why and how it works for the payments industry.
October 21, 2021
Episode 158 - The High Pain of Push Payment Scams - PJ Rohall, Featurespace
We all know that there are risks in payments. When the controls we put in place to manage risk fail, fraud is the result. Fraud, or fraud prevention, is now an industry using many of the same tools to defeat our controls that we use to defend our payments systems.
August 16, 2021
Episode 156 - How to Make Financial Health a Reality - Mimi Joy, Financial Health Network
This podcast with Mimi Joy explores consumer financial wellbeing in the US and initiatives to improve access to quality affordable financial services for low and moderate income Americans. Mimi shares her perspective as Head of Partnerships at the Financial Health Network, a leading authority in the space.
July 8, 2021
Episode 154 - Fighting Disruption in Merchant Services with Payments Tech - Kyle Pexton and Nick Starai, NMI
If you want to understand the incumbent merchant services business, the industry that puts payments capabilities into the hands of merchants, take a listen to this Payments on Fire® episode. It focuses on the realities facing the major stakeholders in that portion of the payments industry through a discussion with NMI, a payments technology provider.
July 2, 2021
Episode 153 - How to Make B2B Payments in a Few Lines of Code - Brady Harris and Adam Steenhard, Dwolla - Payments on Fire® Fintech Series
The fintech phenomenon and the ability of software developers and their enterprise customers to embed payments capability into business processes relies on multiple forms of access.
June 21, 2021
Episode 152 - The Fast Payments Imperative - Elizabeth McQuerry, Glenbrook and Craig Ramsey, ACI Worldwide
Fast payments are “must haves” in most economies. Their key attributes make them superior to other bank-led, open-loop systems. The speed of money has caught up with the speed of our communications. As Glenbrook’s Elizabeth McQuerry puts it, “this is a convergence of ideas around the world, a commonality, around this single approach in payments.”
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 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.
February 18, 2021
Episode 144 - Innovation in Fast Money: 4th Annual RTP Network Update - Steve Ledford, The Clearing House
Realtime Retail Payments (RTRP) systems are a global phenomenon. These systems exist or will soon in over 50 countries around the world. Some have been in operation for decades. The UK's Faster Payments system, operated by Mastercard's Vocalink unit, has been in operation for over ten years. Still others are still in the design stage.
February 5, 2021
Episode 141 - The Data Driven Money Supply Chain - Keith Smith, CEO, Payability - Payments on Fire® Risk Series
The Fintech Phenomenon is rarely about doing something entirely new. It's about doing things in a new way that better fits the needs of the target market. The fintech model also enables the provider to reach underserved market segments.
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