The Payments Podcast

For banks, it’s likely to be a year of rising interest rates, making customers pickier about where they put their money, one where technology modernization continues to drive forward. Bottomline’s CRO for Digital Banking, Kevin Pettet, dives into the details behind these statements.

Joining the global effort to promote International Fraud Awareness Week, we’re joined by two industry experts from the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners: President, John Gill, and Andi McNeal, Vice President of Education. In this discussion we get a sense of the bad actors that have brought occupational fraud to the forefront and look at the critical proactive approaches that banks and businesses can take to detect and protect against it.

Peter Davey has extensive experience in the banking and payments industry across all payment types, services and networks. After several years at The Clearing House driving product innovation and real-time payments, he’s recently teamed up with Alloy Labs to bring technology within reach of smaller financial institutions. We’re delighted to chat with Peter, an accomplished executive, thought leader, influencer, futurist, and corporate strategist, about his thoughts on real-time in the context of its momentum, B2B adoption, cross-border instant payments, APIs, financial fraud and open banking.

Chatting about the 6 Pillars of AP Automation, APA founder Jamie Radford leads the charge on transforming the Accounts Payable industry. He shares his thoughts on creating an effective payments process through people development, continuous improvement, winning technology, and best practice.

Sibos 2023 is behind us and the results of this year’s banking survey, which is all about financial institutions maintaining a competitive advantage, are now in. On the back of this, we spent time chatting with Zhenya Winter, author of the report, to get her take on key Sibos takeaways and how some of its content aligned with the 2023 survey findings.

Joining us to discuss real-time payments, from a truly global perspective, is the founder and CEO of Lipis Advisors, Leo Lipis. With over 25 years of experience in payment systems consulting and research on all six continents, Leo shares his in-depth knowledge about how this initiative is being implemented globally.

At a time when traditional banking infrastructures are strained, there’s a drive for FIs to find more scalable, reliable, and efficient systems. Is cloud computing and SaaS-based service models the future for financial institutions? To address this, we chat to two experts in global banking and financial messaging from Bottomline: Edward Ireland (London) and Frederic Viard (Switzerland).

With the Association of Finance Professionals conference approaching, it seemed the perfect time to chat with seasoned treasury professional Tom Hunt, who’s in charge of AFP’s Treasury Advisory Group. He shares his insight about how the role of corporate treasury is morphing into one that has truly elevated to embrace, initiate, and inform strategic input.

Managing and executing corporate liquidity throughout its entire lifecycle is a focus for every CFO and Treasury professional. In this episode, financial and treasury expert Craig Jeffery of Strategic Treasurer unpacks the world of Enterprise Liquidity Management (ELM) for us.

An overhaul of the UK's payment architecture is underway - from a more open environment, like Open Banking, to new payment rails and value-add overlay services. Industry expert Richard Ransom explores how prepared companies are for the change and what they can do to take advantage of the opportunities.