Leaders In Payments

Hotels don’t lose money only on empty rooms. They lose it in the back office, where dozens of disconnected systems force teams into spreadsheets, manual checks, and month-end reconciliation marathons. We sit down with Brian Dass and John Jamieson of OneJourney to unpack a practical idea with big implications for hospitality operators: what if accounts payable could generate revenue, not just expense? We dig into how AI reconciliation can pull invoice data and property management system data ...

Trust gets harder when your company stops feeling small. When teams spread across time zones, layers appear, and acquisitions bring in new colleagues overnight, culture can turn mechanical fast unless leaders build it on purpose. We sit down with Angela Antrim, Chief Human Resource Officer at Payroc, to unpack what “trust at scale” looks like inside a high-growth fintech payments company and how a people-first culture can survive real operational complexity. We talk about the exac...

Stablecoins are no longer a side project for crypto-native companies, they’re turning into serious payment rails for global business. I sit down with Anna Kratky Strebl, CEO of Confirmo Group, to unpack what stablecoin payments look like when you move past hype and start solving real problems: accepting funds from customers worldwide, sending mass payouts to contractors and traders, and reducing the mess of maintaining countless local payment methods. Anna shares her path from working in inte...

Payments integrations have a reputation for being slow, fragile, and painfully dependent on specialists. We wanted to challenge that assumption, so we sat down with Casey Conley, Chief Product Officer at Payroc, to talk about a shift that’s quickly becoming impossible to ignore: agentic development and AI-driven developer experience for payments. Casey explains what’s actually changing when developers can describe what they want in plain language and let AI agents handle the mechanical work o...

Payments used to be the big unlock for vertical SaaS. Now it is the baseline, and the real question is what you build on top of it. I sit down with Sunil Sachdev, SVP and Head of Embedded Finance and Digital Assets at Fiserv, to get specific about how software platforms can expand from embedded payments into embedded banking, lending, and cash flow tools without losing focus or taking on unnecessary operational risk. We talk through how to define embedded finance in a way that makes sense to ...