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Leaders In Payments
Episodes
525 episodes
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 merchant tries to launch across emerging markets and discovers that intern...
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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 Anderson, Senior Vice President of Compliance at Payroc, to get specific a...
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 leading up to Embedify ’26, the Embedded Finance Summit for vertical SaaS ...
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 where partnerships actually start. I’m joined by Amanda Beam, Vice President...
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 large parts of the industry. We sit down with the President and CEO of Input1 ...
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 at Payabli, to break down where AI is genuinely making a difference in paym...
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” upgrades like ISO 20022 into a stress test. Greg Myers sits down with Vijay Oddir...
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 until revenue dips. Greg Myers sits down with Klas Back,, CEO and Co-found...
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, Director of Platform Growth at Maverick Payments, to unpack how vertical SaaS...
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 movement in the United States still depends on slow, multi-hop workflows and how ...
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 leading up to Embedify ’26, the Embedded Finance Summit for vertical SaaS ...
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 payments stack can feel real-time and auto...
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 sit down with Marielle Mekkaoui, Head of Marketing at Payabli, to talk abo...
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 Ingenico, about what it takes to build technology that quietly works in the backg...
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 conversation with Ann Berkmeier, Chief Administrative Officer at Dash Solutions, ...
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 Compliance AI at ThetaRay, to unpack what it really takes to modernize AML an...
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 looks like across fintech. We sit down with Kim Molinaro, Head of ISV at Fis...
Women Leaders in Payments: The Future is Human with Kristin Reischel, Rapyd | Episode 507
Payments look like pure software until you move countries, get hit with fraud, or watch a “guaranteed” settlement date slip. That’s where the real story starts, and it’s why I loved talking with Kristin Reischel, Senior Director of Solutions an...
Women Leaders in Payments: The Future is Human with Clarice Leaman, dLocal | Episode 506
Payments don’t fail as an abstract metric. They fail for a freelancer waiting to get paid, a small business trying to accept the locally normal method, or a customer who gets told “we don’t support how you pay.” That’s why our conversation with...
Women Leaders in Payments: The Future is Human with Kimling Lam, Fortis | Episode 505
Payments are getting smarter and more automated, but the real question is simpler: are we making life easier for the humans behind every transaction? For Women Leaders in Payments Month, we’re joined by Kimling Lam, Chief Marketing Officer at F...
Women Leaders in Payments: The Future is Human with Rachel Costello, Maverick | Episode 504
Payments are getting faster and more automated, but the hardest part still isn’t the tech. It’s trust. We talk with Rachel Costello, VP of Platform Growth at Maverick, about why the future of payments is human and how leaders can keep em...
Women Leaders in Payments: The Future is Human with Alexandra Dolia, Akurateco | Episode 503
A failed payment is never just a technical error. It’s a customer stuck at checkout, a merchant losing revenue, and a moment where trust is either reinforced or broken. We sit down with Alexandra Dolia, co-founder and COO of Akurateco, to talk ...
Women Leaders in Payments: The Future is Human with Alex McCandless, Payroc | Episode 502
Payments look instant and invisible until something goes wrong. That’s when you find out whether you’re working with a faceless system or a team you can actually trust. We sit down with Alex McCandless, EVP of Marketing and Training at Payroc, ...
Women Leaders in Payments: The Future is Human with Gunita Bindra, Bottomline | Episode 501
Payments are getting smarter, faster, and more automated, but the stakes are still deeply human. I sit down with Gunita Bindra, CRO of Paymode New Business Development at Bottomline, to talk about wha...
The State of Payments: Shifts, Friction & The Road Ahead | Episode 500
In this milestone 500th episode of the Leaders in Payments Podcast, I bring together seven respected leaders from across the payments ecosystem for a special look at the state of the industry.Rather than a traditional one-on-one intervie...