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Visa Direct Money Travels podcast
On Money Travels, we explore the stories and people behind the extraordinary innovations that are transforming digital finance and examine the impact they’re having on our lives and on economies across the world.
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Welcome to Money Travels, presented by Visa, a podcast that is trekking across the globe and exploring the nuances of payments.
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Embark on a global odyssey of payments and human connection with the Money Travels podcast, presented by Visa.
How AAvance Advances Inclusion for Migrants in Latin America
In this episode, we’re joined by the team from AAvance, a fintech working with Visa to tackle this problem head-on. We’ll explore how their digital wallet is replacing insecure cash with prepaid cards, giving dignity and financial freedom to migrants.
Tune into more about AAvance
How TerraPay Fixed Fragmented Payments with Interoperability
In this episode, we talk to Ambar about his Terrapay journey and how digital wallets are reshaping financial ecosystems to meet UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Learn more about interoperability
How Paysend Is Solving Finance’s Biggest Challenge
In this episode, we talk with Ben about his personal journey, his passion for improving financial inclusion, and the challenges faced by millions when it comes to sending and receiving money.
Dive into Paysend’s solution
How Agentic AI is Changing the Financial Health of Millions
In this episode, Jennifer explains what consumers stand to gain from these advances, how banks will benefit too, and how the work being done now is laying the foundation for a more equitable financial future.
Listen about Agentic AI and financial health
How the Gates Foundation Brings Financial Access to Billions
In this episode, Kosta explains how these payment systems empower individuals, foster economic growth, and benefit businesses across the developing world, as progress accelerates toward the 2030 goal of full financial inclusion.
Hear more on the Gates Foundation
Payments and the Rise of Agentic Commerce with checkout.com
In this episode, we speak to Rory about his journey from mobile tech to payments, and how the current wave of innovations are once again helping to shape the way the world lives and works.
Learn more about agentic commerce
Colin and Samir Reflect on Life and the State of the Creator Economy
In this episode, we speak to Colin and Samir about their inspiring rise and the lessons they’ve learned. We’ll hear how they built two successful ventures from scratch, the principles of building a creator business and discover the importance of building an audience. We’ll also ask why creators face so many logistical challenges—and what the financial services industry can do to support them.
Dive into the creator economy
How DailyPay is Reshaping the Financial Lives of Americans
DailyPay’s former Chief Commercial Officer, Ryan Mang, explains the innovations behind this transformation and the impact it's having on employees, employers and the wider economy – both in America and beyond.
Unlock earned wage access
Her Genius Plan to Solve Asia Cross-Border Trade Challenges
Camilla Bullock, CEO Emerging Payments Association Asia, explains why data is both the key to progress and one of the biggest hurdles in payments, why diversity is essential for better innovation, and how an emerging technology could hold the key to unlocking smoother payments for businesses across the region.
Learn her genius plan
His Brilliant Idea to Change Global Payments
Jaco Veldsman, Global Head of Non-FX Revenue at OFX, shares his motivations for striking out alone, the customer challenges he’s working to solve, and how his thirst for innovation and desire to simplify payments for all still drive him to this day.
Explore how to simplify payments
Why Singapore Fintech Wants To Solve Financial Access
In this episode, Varun Mittal, founder Fintech Nation, shares his experiences as an innovator, along with his views on the consumer challenges fintech has solved successfully and the work the industry still has to do to give customers what they really need.
Learn about Singapore fintech innovations
How Singapore’s Fintech Boom Is Changing Lives
Reuben Lim, CEO of the Singapore Fintech Association, is helping fintech companies meet the varied needs of consumers across South East Asia, from the well-banked of Singapore to the hard-to-reach communities of rural Thailand, Indonesia and beyond.
Discover the impact of Singapore fintechs
How JP Nicols Broke the Bank with Fintech Innovation
In 2007, JP Nicols helped pull his established bank from the center to the edge of money, to meet customers where they were. He pioneered innovations to give customers what they wanted, redefining the bank-customer relationship and transforming the banking industry in the process. 18 years on, he’s still at it, helping established banks and fintechs work together to meet the ever-growing expectations of the consumer.
See the fintech innovation
The Future of Money Movement: Collaboration and Connections
Maria “Luli” Peyrelongue, VP, Visa Direct, discusses their collaborative approach to simplifying money movement and the role their infrastructure plays in helping make money movement more affordable and accessible.
See the future of money movement
Staying Ahead of Fraudsters: Protecting Your Digital Identity
Visa Direct VP Matthieu Charpentier explains the delicate balance between stopping fraud and causing friction for users.
Learn how we fight fraudsters
Unleashing AI Superpowers in the Fight Against Fraud
Michael Jabbara, VP, Global Head of Fraud Services at Visa, discuss how AI is the not-so-secret weapon helping Visa Direct identify fraud within a sea of legitimate transactions.
See how we fight fraud with AI
One-Stop Shop: The Reach of Tencent with Money Movement Integration
Wenhui Yang, regional general manager of Tenpay Global Asia Pacific discusses the ways that Weixin has integrated financial features into the consumer app experience.
Learn about finance in super apps
Banking the Underbanked: Making Money Movement More Inclusive
Jairo Riveros, managing director for The Americas and global head of strategy at Paysend, a global fintech company, discusses financial inclusion in money movement.
See our work in financial inclusion
Seas of Change: Digital Money Movement and the Cruise Industry
Brightwell CEO, Larry Hipp shares how their fintech is accomplishing a sea of change with cross-border payments in the cruise industry.
Explore money movement at sea
How Online Gaming Money Movement Is Leveling Up
Warren Tristram from Nuvei, Mickael Marceau of Kindred Group, and Christian Reinheimer from LeoVegas explore the explosion of the online platforms for gaming, and the challenges and opportunities that they present for money movement.
Explore the gaming boom
Beyond the Piggy Bank: Financial Literacy for Kids and Adults
Louise Hill of GoHenry, and Kennedy Reynolds from Acorns, explore some ways to bridge the gap in financial literacy for kids and adults alike.
Bridge the gap in financial literacy
Rise of the Creator Economy and Creator Led Businesses
Eric Wei and Will Kim of Karat Financial, and Brian McMullin at SamCart, explore the creator economy which continues to grow rapidly.
Discover the Creator Economy
Keeping Up with Foreign Exchange in Real Time
Piers Marais from Visa explores the challenge of making cross-border payments as fast and seamless as customer expectations are for fast money movement.
See more about Foreign Exchange
When Gaming Becomes Income: Money Movement’s Next Play
We explore the state of the gaming industry and where it's headed with Matt Story, VP Visa Global Brand Partnerships & Advocacy.
See the future of gaming commerce
How Small Businesses Are Making Big Money Moves
Jaspreet Singh, head of Consumer Funded Flows at Visa Direct, discusses the unique needs for Small Businesses in the money movement space and how Visa Direct is meeting those needs.
Learn more about Small Businesses
En Route to Real-Time: Moving Money from Me to Me
Visa Direct’s Nicole Stiller and Step’s Horacio Diaz Adda talk about making account-to-account transfers simple and fast for a tech-savvy generation.
Hit play for real-time payments
Sending Money Home: Remittances in an Instant World
Breno Andrade and Enrique Perezalonso discuss the unique needs of those who rely on remittances and the innovations being developed to address them.
Explore remittance innovation
Expressway to Payday: Earned Wage Access
Mike West, Paul Simpson, and Nick Newman discuss the latest developments in wage access that help employers pay their employees fast.
Unlock faster employee payments
From Local to Global: Building a Borderless Network for Banks
Norman Butler and Parikshit Bhattacharya reveal the infrastructure needed to move money across borders at the scale and speed we’ve come to expect.
Listen to building a borderless network
A Changing Landscape: Transforming P2P with the Visa Alias Directory
Serge Elkiner and Lucho Torres discuss the security concerns of mobile payment services and the innovations that are helping increase security in money movement.
Tune in to secure P2P payments
When Money Travels without Permission: Fraud Protection and Security
Sue Onians, VP of Visa Direct Ecosystem and Risk, speaks about the growth of financial fraud in the digital age and keeping your personal data safe.
Safeguard personal data with Visa
Frequent Flyers: The Microtisation of Remittances
Join Deepan Dagur and Aswin Phlaphongphanich for a deeper look at global remittances in Asia Pacific.
Dive deeper into global remittances
Unexpected Departures: P2P Money Movement in Ukraine
Explore the invisible infrastructure that enables money movement after a crisis with Gouranga Dhanagare and Valeriy Danylenko.
Discover P2P’s impact in a crisis
A Borderless World: Cross-Border Money Movement
Join Richard Meszaros and Robert Clayton to examine the growing list of reasons why companies need better cross-border money movement solutions.
Turn a local business into a global success
Fintechs: Money’s Superhighway
Anastasia Serikova and Stergios Tsalis explore some of the enablers of the FinTech revolution and the resulting disruption of traditional financial services.
Uncover what's behind the FinTech revolution
Taking Off: Digital Wallets for a Digital World
Pankaj Sharma and Ani Sane examine the rise of mobile wallets and what it means for behavioral economics as our finances go digital.
Learn all about digital wallets
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