Mike Massaro is the CEO of Flywire, a Boston-based payments company.

Flywire has raised over $140 million from leading investors including Spark Capital, Fidelity’s F-Prime, Bain Capital, Temasek, Accel Partners and QED Investors.

In this conversation, Mike and I discuss the drivers and implications of recent consolidation in the payments industry, existential threats to payments incumbents and the trend of payments integration into vertical software platforms.

Mike Massaro is the CEO of Flywire, a Boston-based payments company. Flywire has raised over $140 million from leading investors including Spark Capital, Fidelity’s F-Prime, Bain Capital, Temasek, Accel Partners and QED Investors. In this conversation, Mike and I discuss the drivers and implications of recent consolidation in the payments industry, existential threats to payments incumbents and the trend of payments integration into vertical software platforms.

Consolidation in Payments, Existential Threats to Incumbents and Vertical Software with Mike Massaro

Financial innovation, technology advances, and social changes are sending shockwaves through the financial services industry.

In an age of increasingly rapid change, important questions, debates and developments are unfolding before our eyes. These ideas, and the choices we make in response to them, will shape our future.

Technology is vastly powerful, creating new industries in response to – or sometimes in anticipation of – changing customer expectations.

Rebank explores the trends, developments and challenges that define our age and shape the future role of money, banking and financial services.

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Financial innovation, technology advances, and social changes are sending shockwaves through the financial services industry. In an age of increasingly rapid change, important questions, debates and developments are unfolding before our eyes. These ideas, and the choices we make in response to them, will shape our future. Technology is vastly powerful, creating new industries in response to – or sometimes in anticipation of – changing customer expectations. Rebank explores the trends, developments and challenges that define our age and shape the future role of money, banking and financial services.

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