Talking Banking Matters
Episodes
Talking with Jeremy Fox-Geen, CFO of Circle
03 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The blockchain-based fintech Circle is perhaps best known as the issuer of USDC stablecoins, but the company is much broader than that. In the words o...
Talking with Craig Saks, CEO of Bottomline
19 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The longtime business payments company seeks to transform B2B money movement and related activities, creating new revenue streams and better cashflow....
Talking with Soups Ranjan, cofounder and CEO of SardineAI
21 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As digital payments make up a growing share of money movement, payments fraud is becoming more frequent and complex, requiring a broader range of ever...
Talking with Daragh Murphy, founder and CEO of Imprint
30 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As more retailers and other consumer-facing companies look to offer customer loyalty payment cards with rewards and easier shopping experiences, the c...
Talking with the founder of Featurespace, David Excell
28 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The fraud and financial-crime prevention company’s machine-learning approach uses adaptive behavioral analytics to identify and root out imprope...
Talking with Flywire CFO Cosmin Pitigoi
16 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
One of the key challenges finance departments face is connecting the various bits of data generated when money moves into or out of the business. This...
Talking with Johan Tjärnberg, Group CEO of Trustly: Breaking barriers
12 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the payments industry, open banking and account-to-account payments have faced slower adoption in certain markets as they compete with card-based a...
A new breed of payment processors
12 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Talking Banking Matters, McKinsey payments sector expert Roshan Varadarajan speaks with one of the entrepreneurial technologists wh...
Financial services beyond the bank
12 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Embedded finance is one of the fastest-growing areas of financial services and e-commerce globally, yet it is still a nascent concept. In this episode...
Transforming mindsets: Nathan Bostock on banking transformations
26 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Throughout his 40-year career, Nathan Bostock has seen the financial services industry change in big ways—and has used these changes to his advantag...
After the surge: Tien-Tsin Huang on the future of payments
10 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The payments sector equity analyst discusses the industry’s evolution in the context of dwindling cash-to-card conversion, technological advances, a...
A question of identity: Talking with Socure’s Johnny Ayers
17 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The founder and CEO of digital identity verification and fraud prevention platform Socure describes the challenges and opportunities of AML, KYC, and ...
Build it and they will come: Talking with Marqeta’s Jason Gardner
02 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The payments company founder shares how he built an industry-disrupting company, why he handed off to a successor, and how he sees the industry’s fu...
The journey of building a neobank from the ground up
29 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Neobank founder and technologist Anne Boden talks about the changes in the banking landscape that prompted her to start a new institution from the gro...
Disruption for good: Talking with Forage’s CEO Ofek Lavian
29 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
An e-commerce veteran brings payments industry tech to the business of food assistance for low- and no-income people, promising easier grocery shoppin...
Carving out new territory in lending: A conversation with Pagaya CEO Gal Krubiner
29 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Pagaya cofounder Gal Krubiner talks about making “life-changing” financial products available to more people, and why starting a business with fri...
Banks’ core technology conundrum reaches an inflection point
29 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The founder and CEO of Thought Machine talks with McKinsey about how advances in cloud-based solutions are helping banks meet the technology challenge...
Leading with mobile: In conversation with ING’s Petri Nikkilä
20 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
ING’s head of retail markets leaders for the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg discusses the bank’s journey to a mobile-led model, and about ba...