The Payments Podcast

While the economy is turbulent, fraud levels are rising, and the payments landscape is constantly changing, companies on both sides of the pond seem quite resilient when managing their cash. They feel optimistic about experimenting with new payment types, changing payment terms and looking for ways to better protect their business payments. Gunita Bindra and Charles Bennett share their thoughts on the findings and the expectations of financial decision-makers over the next couple of years.

Our annual Business Payments Barometer Report offers insight into fraud statistics across Great Britain and North America. Our fraud panel discusses the findings and offers companies practical tips on how to safeguard against potential threats.

Having researched 1,600 corporate financial decision-makers from across the US and Great Britain, we chat through the findings from this year’s 2023 Business Payments Barometer such as what’s influencing change in payments – both present and future – such as the focus on adopting innovative technologies, new payment initiatives and tackling the relentless rise of fraud and financial crimes.

We chat with Bob Cohen of Ardent Partners on AP Automation and how it’s changed from a back-office function to a vital core process within a business – something the pandemic highlighted. He touches on the advances in technology, the opportunities, the challenges, what good looks like, and the journey from mere integration to ongoing evolution.

Nacha, the institution that governs the ACH Network in the United States, recently hosted their annual payments conference in Las Vegas. Attended by banks and corporates from across the globe, the theme for this year’s Nacha event was Smarter, Faster Payments. In this podcast episode, Bottomline’s Michelle Pasquerillo and Brian Hall chat to us about conversations around the room and some key take aways from the event.

Now all the ISO20022 deadlines and milestones are out of the way, what’s next? Payments expert, Edward Ireland, chats with us about how those that have migrated are getting on, what new services will it enable, what’s the next exciting phase for becoming ISO native and what will this enable?

Just out, is this year’s Treasury Fraud and Controls Report from Strategic Treasurer. In this episode Craig Jeffery, Managing Partner at Strategic Treasurer, and Bottomline’s payment fraud expert, Chris Gerda, chat about the report findings and delves into the wish list from banks of their corporate customers when it comes to preventing fraud.

Without doubt simplicity wins in the chess match against fraudsters. It takes an army. But a consolidated approach, across fraud teams, will unite prevention efforts and create efficiencies when it comes to outsmarting criminals in their next potential move. Fraud expert, Ruud Grotens, talks with us about how fraud investigators and analysts can easily manage and track all fraud cases from cross-functional areas in a single place. What's your next move?

Following the adoption of Confirmation of Payee (CoP) by financial institutions across the UK to prevent Authorised Push Payment (APP) fraud, Bottomline now brings this fraud prevention measure to businesses across the UK. In this episode we chat to Mark Bish, Product Manager and expert on CoP, to get some insight into how it differs from the bank offering, the use cases, benefits and we get a sense of urgency on adoption.

In celebration of International Women’s Day (#IWD), we speak with two inspirational women in fintech: Women of Fintech’s founder, Gemma Young and TechPassport’s CEO and founder, Layla White. In this episode, we spotlight women in the Fintech industry and look at how we can collectively achieve better equity – from empowerment, collaboration and mentorship to progression and overcoming challenges.