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Leaders In Payments
Episodes
485 episodes
Stablecoins For Enterprise Payments with Tony Tom, CRO and Co-Founder of Stable Sea | Episode 484
“Instant” payments are usually a well-designed illusion. The customer experience feels real-time, but behind the scenes money still crawls through delayed settlement, fragmented rails, and market-by-market workarounds. That gap is exactly where...
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How vSaaS Platforms are Reshaping Business Operations & the Critical Role of Payments with Brad Pinneke at Worldpay | Ep 483
Vertical SaaS wins when it feels like it was built by someone who has actually done the job, and that same principle is reshaping payments and fintech. We sit down with Brad Pinneke, Head of Enterprise Business Development at
Rich Clow, Head of Innovation & Strategy, Global Payments Solutions at Bank of America | Episode 482
The payments world is full of shiny objects. The hard part is deciding what actually matters to clients and then delivering it safely at global scale. I’m joined by Rich Clow, Head of Innovation and Strategies for Global Payments Solutions at <...
Get Paid Faster with Garima Shah, President and Co-Founder of Biller Genie | Episode 481
Waiting 47 days to get paid for work you already finished is more than annoying, it’s a cash-flow killer. I sat down with Garima Shah, President and Co-Founder of Biller Genie, to talk about the unglamorou...
Special Series: The Trust Advantage with Brock Robertson, Chief Revenue Officer at Payroc | Episode 480
Owning payments sounds like a power move until the real bill shows up. We sit down with Brock Robertson, CRO at Payroc, to unpack how payment strategy for software platforms is shifting again and why so many ve...
The Signal: Embedded Finance - The real value: ISV customer retention and stickiness with Whitney Ganibegovic, Worldpay | Episode 479
Payments alone rarely make a software platform unforgettable. The moment merchants start using your product to access working capital, manage cash flow, move money through payouts, and keep reconciliation tight, the relationship changes. I sit ...
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...
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
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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, ...
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. ...
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...
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
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...
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...
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...
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...
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-...