The Payments Podcast

Payments have grown in importance in the Asia-Pacific region's entire banking environment, currently accounting for 44 percent of total banking revenues.

Eli Shoshani, who heads up the APAC region for Bottomline, talks to us on the revolution on business payments, and the spend and scale of digitization.

Does the introduction of Open Banking and variable recurring payments (VRPs)put existing payment options in question, or complement existing payment types and create more choice for users? Bottomline’s Strategic Customer Success Manager, Richard Ransom, offers us insight into the topic of Open Banking and its impact on Direct Debits.

Once considered a secondary threat, insider fraud is a growing challenge for banks, demanding urgent attention. Are banks in denial about acknowledging this significant issue, or do they have too many competing priorities on their plate? Bottomline’s Ruud Grotens chats with Elizabeth Humphrey of Themis on the recent Insider Fraud in Banks research

AP (Accounts Payable) automation has helped banks to be more efficient and tackle the expense of paper checks. But the time has come to spotlight AR (Accounts Receivable), the collections side of the business.

Nick Babinsky, SVP and General Manager of Billtrust’s Business Payments Network (BPN) talks to us about their mission to digitally transform AR and simplify B2B commerce.

One of the most financially destructive cyber-crimes is business email compromise (BEC), also known as email account compromise (EAC). Business email breach is hazardous enough to draw the attention of the FBI and other law enforcement organisations such as Interpol.

This podcast episode covers strategies to stop your business from becoming the target of such attacks. Chief security officer for Paymode-X, Chris Gerda, addresses the rise in BEC and other types of Accounts Payable fraud.

Although subscriptions are not new, how businesses, such as golf clubs and charities use them is undergoing an evolution. It’s a payment type that’s shown significant growth over the last 9 years, so its application goes beyond the traditional subscription businesses.

Listen to our expert Jon Rushton, GM for Bottomline Payment Services, to understand whether your business could adopt a subscription model for collecting cash and what considerations you should contemplate.

In the final part of the CBDC series, we chat to Marcus Hughes, Head of Strategic Business Development at Bottomline, who equips us with the developments of CBDC beyond the UK, their effect on data privacy, and considerations for CBDCs in practice.

Marcus Hughes, Head of Strategic Business Development at Bottomline, talks about all things we need to know about Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC’s). In this part 1/2, learn about CBDC’s, their risks, how they differ from other digital currencies, and much more.

This final episode in our 3-part series discusses the impact and benefits of Open Banking for different sized companies and the trends emerging in the Open Banking and Open Finance space. Marcus Hughes, Head of Strategic Business Development at Bottomline, shares his opinions.

In the second of three episodes, listen to Bottomline's Head of Strategic Business Development, Marcus Hughes, talk about the evolution of Open Banking to Open Finance and how it’s gaining traction. He discusses which countries are welcoming the change and their approach to adapting to new data rights and sharing