Podcast profile
By Greg Myers
Hear directly from C-level executives in payments/fintech about industry trends, successful strategies, products, services, and what the future holds for the payments/fintech industry.
Latest episode
42 min
Topics
Payment rails, cards, wallets, transfers, merchant systems, and payment infrastructure.
Financial APIs, ledgers, compliance systems, fraud controls, and modern financial infrastructure.
Digital banking products, bank technology, financial services transformation, and banking platforms.
Formats
Host-led conversation where a guest supplies most of the subject matter.
Audience level
Assumes basic technology literacy and familiarity with common products, roles, and terminology.
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Embedded finance can be the cleanest growth lever a software platform has, but most teams discover the hard way that launching payments is the easy part. Real success comes down to adoption, ownership, and building a customer experience that makes payments and other financial products feel native, not bolted on.
This conversation is part of a three-part series about Embedded Finance that Jane Podbelskaya and I are launching leading up to Embedify 2026, our summit for vertical SaaS leaders on October 13 in Lehi, Utah. Embedded finance sounds simple until you try to scale it.
Trust can be the difference between getting “a couple test deals” and becoming the payments partner an agent builds a business on.
QuickBooks and spreadsheets aren’t failing because small business owners don’t care. They fail because owners are busy running the business, and “keeping the books” becomes a second job with high stakes.
This conversation is part of a three-part series about Embedded Finance that Jane and I are launching leading up to Embedify 2026, our summit for vertical SaaS leaders on October 13 in Lehi, Utah. AI is making software faster to build, easier to copy, and harder to price with the old per-seat subscription model.
Real-time payments are finally delivering what everyone asked for: near-instant settlement. But when the buffer disappears, a new risk takes center stage: not “was the credential valid,” but “did the actor have authority to create the obligation.”
Your “global” checkout is only as strong as its most local payment method. I’m joined by João Del Valle, CEO of EBANX, to unpack what really happens when a fast-growing merchant tries to launch across emerging markets and discovers that international card acquiring alone is not enough.
Trust is the hidden advantage that decides which payments companies earn bigger merchants, stronger partners, and more room to innovate.
This episode is part of our Embedded Finance Podcast Series, exploring the strategies, opportunities and challenges shaping the future of embedded finance. The series is leading up to Embedify ’26, the Embedded Finance Summit for vertical SaaS leaders, taking place October 13 in Lehi, Utah.
Your LinkedIn feed will be full of “great to see you” posts after WSAA 2026, but the real value happens before the photos, in the hallways and late-night conversations where partnerships actually start.