



Talking with Craig Saks, CEO of Bottomline
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
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-more-powerful security tools. SardineAI seeks to meet that need with an AI-powered fraud prevention and compliance platform that uses device intelli…

Talking with Daragh Murphy, founder and CEO of Imprint
As more retailers and other consumer-facing companies look to offer customer loyalty payment cards with rewards and easier shopping experiences, the co-branded card company Imprint seeks to simplify that process and offer it to a broader range of companies. In this episode Daragh Murphy, cofounder …

Talking with the founder of Featurespace, David Excell
The fraud and financial-crime prevention company’s machine-learning approach uses adaptive behavioral analytics to identify and root out improper payments.

Talking with Flywire CFO Cosmin Pitigoi
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 is especially true for small and midsize businesses. Although a profusion of digital payments providers has cropped up to help such companies, many …

Talking with Johan Tjärnberg, Group CEO of Trustly: Breaking barriers
In the payments industry, open banking and account-to-account payments have faced slower adoption in certain markets as they compete with card-based and peer-to-peer systems. In this episode McKinsey payments sector leader Roshan Varadarajan speaks with Johan Tjärnberg, the Group CEO of the open ba…

A new breed of payment processors
In this episode of Talking Banking Matters, McKinsey payments sector expert Roshan Varadarajan speaks with one of the entrepreneurial technologists who seek to solve multiple industry challenges including those of legacy payments technology systems, Zeta cofounder and CEO Bhavin Turakhia. Zeta offe…

Financial services beyond the bank
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 McKinsey payments sector leader Roshan Varadarajan speaks with Pedro Silva, CEO and cofounder of the embedded-finance platform company Alviere about…

Transforming mindsets: Nathan Bostock on banking transformations
Throughout his 40-year career, Nathan Bostock has seen the financial services industry change in big ways—and has used these changes to his advantage to usher in the next era of banking. He has led multiple full-scale transformations across several companies, including during his tenure CFO and CEO…

After the surge: Tien-Tsin Huang on the future of payments
The payments sector equity analyst discusses the industry’s evolution in the context of dwindling cash-to-card conversion, technological advances, and tighter credit markets.