Payments on Fire® Podcast
1) Episode 276 - Fanning the Flames - Stablecoin Economics
The three major takeaways from stablecoins are that they are fast, global, and low cost. But why are they low cost? Thus began our quest to dive into the economic ecosystem of stablecoins. When creati...Show More
2) Episode 275 - The Criticality of Optimizing the Payments Experience, with Anne Hay and Mike Kaplan, PayNearMe
In this episode of Payments on Fire, Chris Uriarte welcomes Anne Hay, Chief Marketing Officer, and Mike Kaplan, Chief Revenue Officer, from PayNearMe to discuss the evolution and optimization of the p...Show More
3) Episode 274 - Looking through the Fog: Investing in Times of Great Uncertainty, with Timothy Chiodo, UBS, and Christopher Kim, Capital Group
In this episode, Bryan Derman welcomes two highly respected members of the investment community who represent the two sides of that business: Tim Chiodo, Managing Director and Lead Analyst for Payment...Show More
4) Episode 273 - The Hard Science of Fraud Investigations, with David Maimon, SentiLink
“97.0% for those whose full personal information was freely available on the darknet” experienced identity theft attempts, according to a key finding in SentiLink’s recent report on the probability of...Show More
5) Episode 272 - Fanning the Flames - 2025 Mid-Year Payments Industry Trends Update
In our 2024 Wrap Up episode, we looked into our crystal ball to predict how different payments themes may evolve in the coming year; however, this industry delivers headlines at a rapid-fire pace (by...Show More
6) Episode 271 - Sufficiently Solving the Non-Sufficient Funds Puzzle with Chanan Lavi, Kipp
In this episode, Drew Edmond is joined by Chanan Lavi, CEO and Co-founder of Kipp, to discuss solutions to one of the most common card decline reasons - non-sufficient funds. Listen in as they talk ab...Show More
7) Episode 270 - Fanning the Flames - Beyond “Behind”: Rethinking US Instant Payments
How fast is fast enough? When we look at fast payments data across countries, the US comes in pretty far behind in transactions per capita. And on the surface, this makes sense. FedNow is still new, ...Show More
8) Episode 269 - Designing Digital Financial Services for Women is Designing for All, with Sonja Kelly, Women's World Banking Institute
In our third episode in a series to spotlight the latest in global developments in payment systems from a financial inclusion lens, Sonja Kelly, Global Head of Women’s World Banking Institute, joins J...Show More
9) Episode 268 - Rethinking Payment Optimization Through the Merchant of Record Model, with Rehman Baig, FlexFactor
In this episode, Rehman Baig, Chief Product Officer at FlexFactor joins Drew Edmond to talk about how FlexFactor is rethinking payments optimization through a Merchant of Record model. For most people...Show More
10) Episode 267 - Fanning the Flames: Agentic Commerce
Would you let a software agent, powered by AI, search, select, and complete a purchase on your behalf? Will a merchant be able to tell if there’s a human or robot behind the transaction? What about ri...Show More