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
479 episodes
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 they still want what you sell, and that “involuntary churn” quietly drains ARR, wrec...
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Season 7
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Episode 478
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23:00
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 Saraf, SVP and Global Chief Product Officer for Merchant Solutions at
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Season 7
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Episode 477
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23:24
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 Grushkowsky, Co-Founder and CEO of MassPay, to unp...
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Season 7
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Episode 476
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21:55
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 countries, different regulations, different checkout habits, and a constant pressure ...
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Season 7
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Episode 475
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20:03
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 a pragmatic path from point products to a unified embedded finance stack that actual...
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Season 7
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Episode 473
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34:36
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 platform...
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Season 7
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Episode 473
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23:54
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 Series, brought to you by Payroc, host Greg ...
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Season 7
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Episode 472
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37:48
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 power the modern creator economy from a $99 templ...
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Season 7
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Episode 471
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28:01
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 what it truly takes for payments companies and ISOs t...
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Season 7
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Episode 470
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25:03
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 the rapidly evolving world of online com...
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Season 7
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Episode 469
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33:09
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 seamless as a card transaction. We sat down with Aarati Soman, Head of Product at Parafin, ...
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Season 7
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Episode 468
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23:51
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, transaction logic, or refund flows can be scaled into thousands of attacks overnight. ...
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Season 7
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Episode 467
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25:24
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 Instit...
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Season 7
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Episode 466
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26:36
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, Senior Director of B2B Partnerships and Strategy at
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32:55
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 House, to break down how CHIPS, ACH (EPN...
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Season 7
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Episode 462
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25:43
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 the biggest platform-payments shifts h...
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Season 7
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Episode 463
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29:26
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 tokenized dollars are moving from crypto headlines to th...
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Season 7
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Episode 462
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23:48
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 merchant-first approach that puts transparency, servic...
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Season 7
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Episode 461
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28:04
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 stablecoins and tokenized deposits are reshaping cross-...
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Season 7
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Episode 460
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23:02
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 platform by stripping out friction, investing in hum...
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Season 7
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Episode 459
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26:09
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 trust-first approach can transform ACH, RTP, and FedN...
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Season 7
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Episode 458
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22:46
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 B...
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Season 6
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Episode 457
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22:15
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 Shruti Patel, Chief Product Officer for Business Banking at
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Season 6
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Episode 456
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21:42
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 trust or slowing product velocity. With NMI’s CMO Pet...
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Season 6
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Episode 454
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33:35