Payments Innovation

Doing business across borders adds complex layers to your enterprise. But moving payments into other currencies? This should be simple. That’s what we think … and that’s what our latest guest thinks.

He’s built an entire business on the premise of ethical, common-sense trading.

On our latest podcast, Jeff Scanlon, CEO and President of Paymentearth joined us to unravel the complexities of FX payments. Previously, Jeff worked at Ruesch International overseeing the LA Territory,  and later at Commonwealth Foreign Exchange, where he quickly topped the chart in the sales department as customers enjoyed his ethical and transparent style.

After nearly 25 years in the FX industry, he and a colleague decided a better, simpler, more transparent option needed to be available to small and medium size businesses doing international payments.

That’s how Paymentearth was born in July of 2016.

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With the steady increase of Fintech start-ups, is there a sense of reliability with these financial services? How trustworthy are fintechs in general? Do they have any regulations like a bank?

These are challenges that fintech companies have to hurdle, when proving to consumers that they are a reliable source. And it all starts with transparency.

Joined with us today, we have financial technology expert, Rocky Motwani, president and cofounder of Jiko. We will discuss how fintechs try to become a trustworthy financial resource.

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Welcome to Payments Innovation! Today, Chris (Currency Cloud) is interviewing Bruce Parker (Modo Payments) about what he means when he says payment interoperability.

After two decades in the software side of the payments business, Bruce has seen a lot of technology and infrastructure challenges when it comes to managing data in payments… and navigating exchange between systems and networks among all the various participants in the payments ecosystem.

At Modo, he’s focused on how payment data gets exchanged—and, in particular, how to achieve interoperability. “What Modo does is connect the dots,” Bruce said. “We connect between the new and the old.”

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Most consumers, especially next-gen consumers, don't have access to the tools they need to live healthy financial lives. They grapple with problems such as erratic cash flow, limited savings, and access to responsible credit. Banks and fintechs offer no holistic solutions.

We interviewed Colin Walsh, CEO and co-founder of Varo, an app that integrates basic banking products with financial health tools. Before starting Varo out of his guest bedroom, Colin spent 25 years working in traditional financial services companies.

Varo's mission is to improve the financial life of the customer. They want to merge big bank capacity with startup fintech focus to create a bank that helps people live better.

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Money matters to small businesses.

Working capital can be hard to secure when operating a small business and BlueVine is helping to change that.

In our interview with Eyal Lifshitz from BlueVine, a FinTech company specializing in providing fast funding to small businesses, we talk about how they are passionate about helping customers and how their industry is evolving.

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For a lot of folks around the world, currency exchange isn’t something they think about.

The ease and feasibility of exchanging and sending currency across international borders never crosses the minds of most people.

On this episode of Payments Innovation, we sat down with Johnathan Holland, Founder and CEO of Curexe to talk about what it takes to tackle those initial steps of acquiring that initial bank account and get on the right path.

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For a lot of folks around the world, currency exchange isn’t something they think about.

The ease and feasibility of exchanging and sending currency across international borders never crosses the minds of most people.

On this episode of Payments Innovation, we sat down with Johnathan Holland, Founder and CEO of Curexe to talk about what it takes to tackle those initial steps of acquiring that initial bank account and get on the right path.

Money 20/20 is the who’s who of FinTech.

On this episode of Payments Innovation, we hear from Andrew Morris, who is Chief Content Officer of Money 20/20, the largest global FinTech conference.

Through Money 20/20, Morris gets to stay on the cutting-edge of issues that drive the direction of FinTech, and he’s here to share five of them.

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Many of us take for granted the opportunity for readily available, diverse, and quality financial services.

Others of us are not so lucky.

In our interview with Tatiana Delgado from BeeTech, a Brazilian FinTech, we learned of how people across the globe need payment innovation to increase their quality of life.

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Host Chris D’Antuono had an enlightening conversation with Wayne Akey from Agile Payments about why SaaS platforms should consider being part of a payment facilitator program, also known as PayFac.

Agile Payments has been involved in the payments landscape for about 20 years. In that time their niche has been partnering with software service platforms and embedding payments.

Here’s what we learned from Wayne’s expertise.

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