Voices In Payments - By PaymentGenes

• ‍From hype to utility: Why stablecoins have moved beyond speculation and are now being used for real payment applications. The difference between volatile crypto assets and asset-backed stablecoins, and how value stability unlocks everyday use cases.‍
• Cross-border payments and remittances: How stablecoins reduce costs, settlement delays, and intermediaries. The growing relevance for merchants, treasurers, and consumers sending funds across borders.‍
• Micropayments and automation: The emergence of use cases such as small online purchases, machine-initiated transactions, and programmable money flows that traditional rails do not support efficiently.‍
• Industry adoption: The role of fintechs, banks, payment providers, and tech giants. Why companies like Stripe, PayPal, and Circle are taking the lead, and how Visa, Mastercard, and Swift are adapting.‍
• Regulation and geography: A look at the United States, Europe, and the United Kingdom. How the US is encouraging innovation, how MiCA affects European development, and how the UK is positioning itself in between.‍
• Stablecoins and CBDCs: Why they are seen as complementary rather than competing. CBDCs as a settlement layer and public infrastructure, and stablecoins as programmable and innovation-driven instruments.‍
• The consumer perspective: Why end users will not need to understand the underlying technology. Wallets, platforms, and apps will hide complexity and make digital money feel familiar.

In this episode we covered topics including:

🌎Omnichannel strategy in Europe: Why omnichannel is an omnichallenge. What omnichannel means for different European countries. How regulatory, technology and cultural differences affect its application, and a discussion on cash vs digital payments in different parts of Europe.

💡Alternative Payment Methods: the role of A2A payments, digital wallets, and Alternative Payment Methods in shaping the future of omnichannel commerce in Europe. A discussion on the growth of APM in Europe.

❓The biggest thing for payments in 2025: what is about to take centre stage in the payments world, and what is going to change in 2025? Most importantly, how can professionals in payments get ready for the change?

Her insights further shed light on the current role of Worldpay and its strategies to stay ahead in innovations.

The conversation provided fascinating insights on:

📱 The Evolution of Carrier Billing: How this payment method has grown from a niche solution to a widely adopted option in Europe, particularly for subscriptions like Netflix and Google Play.

🌍 Balancing Local Expertise with Global Reach: DIMOCO’s approach to blending traditional payment methods with carrier billing, serving merchants worldwide while addressing regional needs.

🚀 Supporting Scale-Ups: The challenges businesses face when payment setups limit growth and how addressing these issues can unlock new opportunities.

🤖 The Role of AI in Payments: How automation and personalization are reshaping the industry and what that means for the future.

Here’s some topics we have covered:

🚗 Transforming Mobility Payments: Exploring VISA’s role in facilitating seamless payment solutions within the evolving mobility sector.

🌐 Innovation in Fleet Operations: The impact of mobility trends, such as increased adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) and sustainable public transit, on the payment landscape, and vice-versa.

📊 Future Trends in Fleet and Mobility: Examining emerging innovations and the opportunities they bring to the fleet and mobility industries.

Ready to learn how payments drive innovation in mobility?

Tune in now!

This Episode covers an interview with Geert Van Kerckhoven, the CEO of Oper Credits, a SaaS company specializing in mortgage technology solutions. Key points discussed include:

1. Digitizing Mortgages: Geert explains that Oper Credits provides software to streamline the mortgage origination process for banks across Europe. Their goal is to make the experience more efficient and user-friendly for both borrowers and loan officers.

2. Challenges in the Mortgage Industry: Despite recent technological advancements, the mortgage process remains largely paper-based and fragmented. Regulatory constraints and legacy systems in financial institutions contribute to slow adoption of digital solutions.

3. Role of AI and Open Banking: Geert sees AI as transformative for the mortgage sector, though it faces significant compliance hurdles. Open banking offers direct access to borrowers' financial data, enhancing accuracy and efficiency in loan applications. However, issues with inconsistent data and system integration remain obstacles.

4. Embedded Experiences: Geert advocates for an integrated, seamless mortgage experience that connects property browsing and financing—a concept well-developed in e-commerce but still lagging in the mortgage sector.

5. The Future of Mortgages and Fintech: Looking ahead, Geert envisions digital tools that enable real-time decisions for borrowers and closer collaboration with payment providers to leverage valuable data. Such integration could help banks make quicker, better lending decisions. Nonetheless, achieving this vision will require cooperation across regulatory, technological, and financial domains.

This discussion highlights the opportunities and ongoing challenges in creating a seamless, borrower-friendly mortgage journey in Europe’s evolving digital landscape.

Listen to the podcast to find out:

• What is next in the world of DeFi
• The challenges the cryptomarket is facing
• Cryptocurrency wallets
• And more!

Want to learn more about cryptocurrency and crypto wallets? Reach out to Kellogg Fairbank for a conversation!

About Kellogg Fairbank

Kellogg Fairbank is CEO of Nash, a fintech that makes cryptocurrency and decentralized finance easily available by bridging the gap between traditional banking and blockchain. An experienced technology executive and entrepreneur, he has more than a decade of experience in senior leadership roles in the fintech and payments industries, including positions at Braintree / Venmo and PayPal.

About PaymentGenes's "Voices In Payments" - The Future of Payments podcast:

The “Voices in Payments” Podcast, is an initiative launched by PaymentGenes to positively impact the payments community, by educating and connecting the market with vertical-specific industry expertise.

Growth by providing expertise-driven Recruitment, Contracting, Greenfield Consultancy. These services all resolve and intersect around payments. Learn more about how we can help your business here.

Listen to the podcast to find out:

• How Cloud facilitates seamless payments
• Cloud data storage and protection capabilities
• The latest developments in the world of Cloud

And more!

Want to learn more about all things Cloud? Reach out to Luc Schamhart for a conversation!

About Luc Schamhart  

Luc is a Seasoned expert with multiple years of experience working for tech giants such as IBM, Microsoft, Salesforce and now Google Cloud.

About PaymentGenes's "Voices In Payments" - The Future of Payments podcast:

The “Voices in Payments” Podcast, is an initiative launched by PaymentGenes to positively impact the payments community, by educating and connecting the market with vertical-specific industry expertise.

Growth by providing expertise-driven Recruitment, Contracting, Greenfield Consultancy. These services all resolve and intersect around payments. Learn more about how we can help your business here.

Listen to the podcast to find out:

• The use cases of AI in FinTech
• Combating financial crime 
• The developments in AI in recent years
• And more!

Want to learn more about all things AI in the FinTech world? Reach out to João Moura for a conversation!

About João Moura

With close to fifteen years of experience in top academic and industry settings, he has acquired strong theoretical knowledge during his PhD studies in Artificial Intelligence.

About PaymentGenes's "Voices In Payments" - The Future of Payments podcast:

The “Voices in Payments” Podcast, is an initiative launched by PaymentGenes to positively impact the payments community, by educating and connecting the market with vertical-specific industry expertise.

Growth by providing expertise-driven Recruitment, Contracting, Greenfield Consultancy. These services all resolve and intersect around payments. Learn more about how we can help your business here.

• How players in the FinTech ecosystem can best contribute to the DNB’s vision.

• What the Digital Euro is and why it’s important

• The potential conflict with DNB entering into the domain of commercial banks

• How the DNB balances ensuring the trust of the financial system while stimulating innovation and competition with the major developments in the AI, Blockchain, Cloud and data

• What we can learn of Asia’s innovation in FinTech

• The state of financial inclusion in the Netherlands

• The most promising developments in the market, and how both companies and consumers can benefit from them

If you are interested in learning more about the role Inge van Dijk or the DNB play in the mentioned topics, feel free to reach out to Inge van Dijk for a conversation.

About Inge van Dijk

Inge is a Managing Director with a track record in the banking and payments industry. She is skilled in interim management, business transformation, organisational change management, digitalisation, supervisory board, Instant Payments; Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA), complex stakeholder management and program management.

About PaymentGenes's "Voices In Payments" - The Future of Payments podcast:

The “Voices in Payments” Podcast, is an initiative launched by PaymentGenes to positively impact the payments community, by educating and connecting the market with vertical-specific industry expertise.

Growth by providing expertise-driven Recruitment, Contracting, Greenfield Consultancy. These services all resolve and intersect around payments. Learn more about how we can help your business here.

Listen to the podcast to find out:

• How globalization is shaping FinTech
• Selecting the right acquirer
• Optimizing and visualizing transactional data
• And more!

Want to learn more about all things acquired in a globalized world? Reach out to Rodney Bain for a conversation!

About Rodney Bain

Rodney Bain is a payments expert, global partnerships manager, new technologies hunter, and commerce enabler. 

About PaymentGenes's "Voices In Payments" - The Future of Payments podcast:

The “Voices in Payments” Podcast, is an initiative launched by PaymentGenes to positively impact the payments community, by educating and connecting the market with vertical-specific industry expertise.

Growth by providing expertise-driven Recruitment, Contracting, Greenfield Consultancy. These services all resolve and intersect around payments. Learn more about how we can help your business here.