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The Next Generation of Fintech
IPA Payments Pod - May 03, 2024 15:28 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsIn this episode Ben Jackson, the IPA’s COO, discusses the future of fintech and payments with some of the people who will make it happen. He is joined by Scott Thompson and Garam Mansour, two current students with a strong interest in Fintech, and Laura Gibson, the executive director of the Ge...
CPI, the Company in Everyone’s Wallet
IPA Payments Pod - April 26, 2024 14:17 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsIn this episode John Lowe, CPI Card Group Inc.’s new president and CEO, discusses the future of the company and the future of the way people pay. We talk about the importance of physical payments cards for fintechs and banks, the role of digital cards for a card manufacturer, and CPI’s approac...
IPA’s Government Update Podcast April 2024
IPA Payments Pod - April 19, 2024 12:30 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsIn this episode Brian Tate, the IPA’s CEO, and Ben Jackson, the COO, discuss regulatory and legislative developments at both the state and federal levels. They cover bills on EWA in Kansas, the department of Treasury’s green book, and a court case involving PayPal and the CFPB. This podcast...
IPA Book Club: Going Infinite By Michael Lewis
IPA Payments Pod - April 12, 2024 13:55 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsIn this episode Brian Tate, the IPA’s CEO, and Ben Jackson, the COO, discuss Michael Lewis’s most recent book Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon, by Michael Lewis. They talk about what happened to the company, the role of Sam Bankman-Fried, and the lessons the industry can learn...
Banks’ Next Best Action on AI
IPA Payments Pod - March 28, 2024 13:43 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsIn this episode Kiah Lau Haslett, the banking and fintech editor for Bank Director magazine, discusses her report “Artificial Intelligence, a Real World Approach.” She covers how banks can include AI in their strategy, what they need to do to prepare, and how they can guard against potenti...
Financial Education Can’t Solve Everything
IPA Payments Pod - March 08, 2024 14:04 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsIn this episode Dr. Billy Hensley, the president and CEO of the National Endowment for Financial Education, discusses NEFE’s Personal Finance Ecosystem, which is a framework to show the different factors that affect a person’s financial well-being. You can find the ecosystem here: https...
IPA’s February Government Relations Update
IPA Payments Pod - February 22, 2024 14:25 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsIn this episode Brian Tate, the IPA’s CEO, discusses the regulatory, legislative, and court actions that will shape payments in 2024. He discusses outstanding proposed rules on overdraft and interchange, proposed state laws on earned wage access, and court cases against the Consumer Financia...
Illegal Transactions Hide in Plain Sight
IPA Payments Pod - February 08, 2024 14:14 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsIn this episode Sarah Craven, the product manager for transaction laundering detection products at G2 Risk Solutions, discusses how companies selling illegal or unsavory goods hide e-commerce transactions. We discuss how bad actors use various ruses to disguise what they are really selling...
Immediate Uses EWA to Build Financial Health
IPA Payments Pod - January 22, 2024 15:30 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsWhen a paycheck arrives can be just as important as its size. In this episode, we talk with Matt Pierce, the founder and CEO of Immediate, an earned wage access provider. He discusses what led him to found Immediate, how earned wage access contributes to financial health, and how EWA stacks up...
IPA’s Monthly Government Update January 2024
IPA Payments Pod - January 18, 2024 14:36 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsIn this episode of the IPA’s monthly government update podcast, the IPA’s CEO Brian Tate, and its COO, Ben Jackon, discuss the current state of regulation and what is coming in 2024. They talk about how payments companies should plan in light of the regulatory proposals from 2023 that are s...
The Context For Success in Outliers
IPA Payments Pod - January 09, 2024 13:53 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsIn this episode of the IPA book club, the IPA’s CEO Brian Tate, and its COO, Ben Jackon, discuss Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers. The book explores how being successful can depend on context, and how success is not always just a matter of hard work or having the best idea or strategy. We look ...
SMI’s Long Range Approach to Innovation
IPA Payments Pod - January 03, 2024 14:05 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsHelping low- and moderate-income people build wealth is a long-term process, and Systems and Methods Inc., or SMI as they are known, has a plan to do that. In this episode, Bo Stone, the chief strategy officer of SMI, and Wesley Stone, SMI’s director of government affairs discuss the company...
IPA’s Government Update December 2023
IPA Payments Pod - December 21, 2023 14:10 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsOver the past few weeks, regulators have released a variety of regulations that could reshape the payments industry and have plans for more in the new year. In this episode, Brian Tate, the IPA’s CEO, discusses proposed rules on interchange, open banking, and big tech companies. We also ta...
Tis the Season for Gift Cards
IPA Payments Pod - November 28, 2023 14:18 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsGift cards are expected to make up a larger part of holiday shopping budgets, according to new research from Blackhawk Network. In this episode, Jay Jaffin, chief marketing officer at Blackhawk, discusses the expected growth in gift card purchases, why cards benefit merchants and shoppers, and...
IPA’s Government Update November 2023
IPA Payments Pod - November 17, 2023 14:15 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsIn this episode, Brian Tate, the IPA’s CEO, and COO Ben Jackson discuss the latest proposed regulations that care coming out of Washington. They cover the Fed’s proposal to reduce the cap on debit interchange for issuers with more than $10 billion in assets. They cover the CFPB’s proposed open...
Handling Corporate Giving at the Holidays and Beyond
IPA Payments Pod - November 09, 2023 17:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsIn this episode, the IPA talks with Heather McElrath, the founder of Sandbox Communications, about corporate giving. We cover when and how companies should give money and other support to charitable causes, what the benefits and drawbacks are, and how companies should communicate about th...
What Baseball Can Teach Us About Innovation
IPA Payments Pod - November 03, 2023 12:42 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsIn this episode, the IPA Book Club returns to discuss Michael Lewis’s MoneyBall. The book describes how the Oakland A’s took a new approach to finding players, building a team, and playing the game of baseball. We explore what lessons the payments industry can learn from the new approach the t...
The Better Business Bureau Knows How People Get Scammed
IPA Payments Pod - October 24, 2023 16:51 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsDo you know what scams people fall for most often? Could you recognize a scam if someone was targeting you? In this episode, Melissa “Mel” Trumpower the Executive Director of BBB Institute for Marketplace Trust, discusses the findings from the Better Business Bureau’s Scam Tracker research. ...
IPA’s Government Update: October 2023
IPA Payments Pod - October 17, 2023 17:55 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsIn this episode, Brian Tate, The IPA’s CEO, and Chris Stromberg, the director of government relations, discuss both federal and state bills that could shape the payments industry. They discuss a potential bill on earned wage access, legislation on how banks can work with cannabis businesses...
Homeland Security Follows the Money Across Borders
IPA Payments Pod - October 12, 2023 14:11 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsCriminals don’t respect borders, so their crimes and the money they make often move internationally. Whether it is human trafficking, antiquities smuggling, or just plain fraud, when crime crosses boarders, the Department of Homeland Security gets involved. In this episode, Raul Aguila...
Is the CFPB Constitutional? The Supreme Court Heard Arguments This Week
IPA Payments Pod - October 06, 2023 12:47 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsArguments over the future of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau came to a head this week at the Supreme Court. The Court heard oral arguments in Consumer Financial Protection Bureau V. Community Financial Services Association of America. At issue is whether or not the CPFB’s funding is...
Deposits have Changed: The Age of Fintech has Reshaped a Basic Banking Product
IPA Payments Pod - October 03, 2023 13:47 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsTechnology has reshaped everything about banking, including one of its most basic products: deposits. In this episode, we discuss how Banking as a Service and fintechs have reshaped the landscape for consumer deposits, the regulatory response, and what this means for the risk profile of bank...
IPA’s Government Update For September 2023
IPA Payments Pod - September 14, 2023 13:22 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsAs summer winds down Earned Wage Access products are in the spotlight at multiple levels of the government. In this episode, Brian Tate, the IPA’s CEO, and Chris Stromberg, our director of Government Relations, discuss what is happening in the world of EWA regulation at the state and Federa...
The Art of War on Wall Street
IPA Payments Pod - August 24, 2023 13:03 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsIs business just another form of war? In this episode the IPA book club returns with a look at the intersection of business and military strategy. We read the ancient classic “The Art of War,” by Sun Tzu, and to put it in a business context, we also discuss the Oliver Stone film “Wall Street...
New Payments Rules Are Coming to Canada
IPA Payments Pod - August 10, 2023 13:36 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsCanada might seem like an easy first step into international expansion for U.S. companies, but they should not fall into the trap of thinking it is the 51st state. In this episode, Ron Morrow, executive director of Supervision at the Bank of Canada, discusses the regulatory requirements a...
Mastering Customer Service with Ubiquity
IPA Payments Pod - August 02, 2023 13:10 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsCustomer service is a critical department in any business because it can make or break both individual relationships and a company’s reputation. In this episode, Meg Porter, Executive Vice President of Enterprise Transformation at Ubiquity, discusses how to build a successful customer servi...
PayPal Versus CFPB Round 3
IPA Payments Pod - July 27, 2023 13:17 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsThe last round in the battle between PayPal and the CFPB took place in the DC District Court, and IPA’s Head of Government Relations, Chris Stromberg was there to hear the oral arguments. In this episode, he discusses the arguments with IPA’s CEO, Brian Tate, and they consider what the possi...
Payments AI 101
IPA Payments Pod - July 14, 2023 13:35 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsArtificial Intelligence has begun reshaping all parts of the business world, and payments is no exception. To help its members prepare for the changes that are coming, the Innovative Payments Association has asked payments expert Sarah Grotta to write a white paper that gives an overview o...
New Technology gives us “Tools and Weapons”
IPA Payments Pod - June 27, 2023 13:45 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsIn his book Tools and Weapons, Microsoft President Brad Smith, writes about how the growth of technology is changing everyone’s lives for better and worse. In the latest meeting of the IPA book club, we are joined by Sandi Piatz, the head of market for APS, an IPA member, to discuss the book...
Fifth Third’s Innovation Layer Cake
IPA Payments Pod - June 21, 2023 18:07 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsFifth Third Bank’s recent acquisition of fintech Rise Money builds on a long history of financial services innovation. In this episode, Tom Bianco, the general manager of embedded payments at Fifth Third, discusses the Rise acquisition and how it is part of a tradition developing new ...
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