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Money Travels
by Visa Direct
Money Travels explores the stories and people behind the extraordinary innovations in payments, money movement, and digital finance, while examining the impact they’re having on our lives and on economies across the world.
Episodes
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When Legacy Banking Meets the New Global Payments Economy
For decades, migrant workers were forced to navigate incredible friction just to send money home because legacy banks shied away from serving them. This exclusion triggered a wave of innovation, allowing emerging economies to leapfrog the West with mobile wallets and real-time networks. But it…
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Retailers Are Racing to Become Marketplaces. Their Payments Aren’t Ready.
For decades, the retail equation was simple: a business sold a product to a customer. But today, realising they can no longer survive on their own inventory, traditional retailers are transforming into vertical marketplaces, hosting thousands of third-party sellers. As the Head of Technology…
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When Stablecoin Hype Meets Payments Reality: Inside the Paysend Pilot on Visa Direct
Stablecoins are everywhere in the conversation about the future of money—but what happens when they enter real payment systems? In this episode, Abdul Abdulkerimov, founder & Executive Chairman Paysend along with Vira Platonova, Global Head of Visa Direct, join host Maxime Guirauton to discuss…
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Why Finance Keeps Solving the Wrong Problems — And How That’s Changing
For years, the financial technology sector has operated at the bleeding edge of innovation — from embedded finance to stablecoins and AI. But product strategist and fintech thought leader Jas Shah argues that in the rush to adopt new technologies, it can be easy to lose sight of the human…
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Why Small Businesses Get the Worst Financial Services — And How That’s Finally Changing
The financial system operates on a paradox: the biggest companies get the best rates and fastest service, while the real economy—the painters, carpenters, and small suppliers—pay more for a poorer service. With a background in humanitarian aid and finance, Stable Sea founder Tanner Taddeo is…
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Why Money Gets Lost in Translation — And How Global Payments Are Fixing It
For decades, the global financial system has been a Tower of Babel, with banks, wallets, and blockchains each speaking their own language, unable to work together efficiently. This fragmentation has caused massive inefficiencies, trapping billions of dollars in dead money and excluding billions…
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Why It’s Easier to Pay Than Get Paid — And How That’s Changing
For decades, the global financial infrastructure was designed as a one-way street: excellent at collecting money from consumers, but slow and inefficient at giving it back. Rodney Robinson, a 40-year veteran of the payments industry, recognized that for the digital economy to work, money needed a...
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When Stablecoins Meet Africa: What the World Is Missing
Money Travels Podcast Season 4, Episode 1 With the global financial system often failing to serve emerging markets, Chris Maurice, CEO and Co-Founder of Yellow Card, has built an innovative solution from the ground up. What started as a personal mission to solve crippling remittance fees evolved...
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What We Learned From 10+ Hours With Top Voices in Money Movement
Money Travels Podcast Season 3, Episode 14 What does the "edge of money" actually look like? In our Season 3 finale, hosts Rich and Max look back at the most groundbreaking conversations of the year—from the digital transformation of aid in conflict zones to how AI is finally giving creators the...
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10+ Hours of Money Movement Insights in 26 Minutes
Money Travels Podcast Season 3, Episode 14 What does the "edge of money" actually look like? In our Season 3 finale, hosts Rich and Max look back at the most groundbreaking conversations of the year—from the digital transformation of aid in conflict zones to how AI is finally giving creators the...
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How Aavance Is Driving Financial Inclusion for Migrants in Latin America with Digital Wallets
With 7.7 million Venezuelan refugees globally and 2.9 million in Colombia alone, the challenge of distributing humanitarian aid effectively is huge. Using cash is slow and risky, and lacks transparency, raising problems for NGOs and migrants alike. In this episode, we’re joined by the team from...
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How TerraPay Solves Fragmented Global Payments with Interoperability
Money Travels Podcast Season 3, Episode 12 For migrant workers sending remittances back home, cross-border payments can be slow, complex and expensive. It was this challenge Ambar Sur set out to solve when he left his telecom background and co-founded Terrapay in 2014. Inspired by telecom’s...
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How Paysend is Solving the Single Biggest Challenge in Financial Services
Money Travels Podcast Season 3, Episode 11 As CEO at Paysend, Ben Chisell is revolutionising how money moves across borders. 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…
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How Agentic AI is Changing the Financial Health of Millions
Money Travels Podcast Season 3, Episode 10 With so many people struggling to manage their finances effectively, the financial services industry is steadily shifting its focus from increasing financial inclusion to improving financial health. For more than two decades, Jennifer Tescher has been...
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How the Gates Foundation Brings Financial Access to Billions
Money Travels Podcast Season 3, Episode 9 As the former Chief Architect of the SWIFT network, which is still used to handle $4 trillion in daily transfers, Kosta Peric helped to transform the global financial landscape. Now at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Kosta is helping to increase...
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Payments and the Rise of Agentic Commerce
The mobile revolution of the 2000s didn’t just redefine the way we communicate, it fueled innovation, redefined industries, and transformed our lives in ways few could have predicted. Working in mobile at the time, Checkout.com CMO Rory O’Neill sensed a similar transformation was about to grip…
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Colin & Samir Reflect on Life and the State of the Creator Economy
Back in 2011, Colin and Samir's decision to build a YouTube business creating Lacrosse videos seemed risky, baffling friends and family alike. But by building a loyal community and learning to monetize their content, they soon turned their passion into a thriving business, selling their Lacrosse...
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How DailyPay Is Reshaping The Financial Lives Of Americans
Money Travels Podcast Season 3, Episode 6 Since WWII, America’s two-week pay cycle has seen ordinary workers having to wait for their paycheque to pay their bills, put food on the table, and cover any expenses. With anywhere from 30-77% of Americans living paycheque to paycheque, this antiquated...
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Her Genius Plan to Solve Asia Cross-Border Trade Challenges
Money Travels Podcast Season 3, Episode 5 In Asia’s fragmented payments landscape, cross-border trade can be challenging for small businesses. As CEO of the Emerging Payments Association Asia, Camilla Bullock is on a mission to change that. Using what she calls “the network effect”, Camilla…
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His Brilliant Idea to Change Global Payments
Money Travels Podcast Season 3, Episode 4 In March 2020, as the world braced for a global pandemic, Jaco Veldsman gave up his comfortable career in finance to go it alone with the launch of Paytron, the cross-border payments platform. Three years later, Paytron’s mission to transform global...
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Why Singapore Fintech Wants To Solve Financial Access
Money Travels Podcast Season 3, Episode 3 With its unique approach to public-private partnership and obsessive focus on innovation, Singapore has established itself as a global fintech hub. Helping to drive that innovation is Varun Mittal, whose work as founder of Fintech Nation, has given him...
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How Singapore’s Fintech Boom Is Changing Lives
Money Travels Podcast Season 3, Episode 2 In the highly diverse economies of South East Asia, Singapore stands out as an economic powerhouse. This success has paved the way for the explosive growth of the country’s fintech sector, with a combination of Singapore’s unique history and central...
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How JP Nicols Broke the Bank with Fintech Innovation
Money Travels Podcast Season 3, Episode 1 Guest: @JPNicols co-founder Alloy Labs, co-host Breaking Banks podcast on @provokefm In 2007, the release of the first iPhone helped trigger a major shift in what customers expect from the finance industry. Established banks quickly found their…
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Money Travels Season 3 Podcast Trailer
Money Travels explores 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. Hosts: Maxime Guirauton and Richard Arundel Subscribe so you don't miss a single episode…
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How Small Businesses Are Making Big Money Moves
Season 2, Episode 12 of Money Travels presented by Visa. #VisaDirect #MoneyMovement #MoneyTravels #SmallBusiness #SMB Small and mid-size businesses are among the main drivers of employment growth and change, especially in parts of the world that involve developing countries. There, their…
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When Gaming Becomes Income: Money Movement’s Next Play
Season 2, Episode 11 of Money Travels presented by Visa. #VisaDirect #MoneyMovement #MoneyTravels #Gaming #Roblox #Olympics In this episode, we explore the state of the gaming industry and where it's headed by talking to Brad Foxhoven, CEO of EverGame Media, and Matt Story, VP @Visa Global Brand...
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Keeping Up with Foreign Exchange in Real Time
Season 2, Episode 10 of Money Travels presented by Visa. #VisaDirect #MoneyMovement #MoneyTravels #ForeignExchange #CrossBorderPayments #CurrencyCloud Timing when to exchange money from one currency to another is something we've probably all experienced. Domestic payments are getting faster and...
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How Karat is Educating and Financing the Creator Economy
In this episode we explore the creator economy which continues to grow rapidly. This growth represents an opportunity for money movement businesses, but it also presents some unique challenges. To take us into this rapidly evolving landscape, we'll talk to Eric Wei and Will Kim co-founders at…
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Beyond the Piggy Bank: Financial Literacy for Kids & Adults
Season 2, Episode 8 of Money Travels presented by Visa. #VisaDirect #MoneyMovement #MoneyTravels #FinanciaLliteracy #FinancialEducation #Acorns #GoHenry Welcome to Money Travels, presented by Visa. Years into the FinTech revolution, many people still struggle with money management and learning…
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How Online Gaming Money Movement Is Leveling Up
Season 2, Episode 7 of Money Travels presented by Visa. #VisaDirect #MoneyMovement #MoneyTravels #SportsBetting #OnlineGaming #Nuvei #KindredGroup #LeoVegas In this episode we explore the explosion of the online platforms for gaming, and the challenges and opportunities that they present for…
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Banking the Underbanked: Making Money Movement More Inclusive
Season 2, Episode 5 of Money Travels presented by Visa. #VisaDirect #MoneyMovement #MoneyTravels #Remittances #PaySend #Fintech In this episode, we're going to learn about remittances in different parts of the world. We are joined by Jairo Riveros, managing director for The Americas and global…
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Seas of Change: Digital Money Movement and the Cruise Industry
Season 2, Episode 6 of Money Travels presented by Visa. #VisaDirect #MoneyMovement #MoneyTravels #Remittances #Brightwell #CruiseShips Some of us are bitten by the travel bug and can't get enough of the adventures and new experiences that being on the move provides. For many that travel bug…
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One-Stop Shop: The Reach of Tencent with Money Movement Integration
Season 2, Episode 4 of Money Travels presented by Visa. #VisaDirect #MoneyMovement #MoneyTravels #WeChat #SuperApp #DigitalWallets Tencent is a multinational technology conglomerate and one of the world's largest social media companies. @WeChatApp or #Weixin, as the app is known in Mainland…
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Unleashing AI Superpowers in the Fight Against Fraud
Season 2, Episode 3 of Money Travels presented by Visa. #VisaDirect #MoneyMovement #MoneyTravels Fast money movement requires fast security. As money moves more and more quickly, the technical challenges to secure the transactions grow for all parties involved. We have to predict behavior and aim...
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Staying Ahead of Fraudsters: Protecting Your Digital Identity
Season 2, Episode 2 of Money Travels presented by Visa. #VisaDirect #MoneyMovement #MoneyTravels In today's internet age, our identity has gone digital. We use our email addresses, phone numbers, social media account logins, and even digital versions of our biometrics to identify ourselves and...
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The Future of Money Movement: Collaboration & Connections
Season 2, Episode 1 of Money Travels presented by Visa. #VisaDirect #MoneyMovement #MoneyTravels For Season 2 we're taking a broad look at the global money movement landscape and thinking about what changes the next year might bring. Where are the opportunities for growth? What kind of friction…
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A Changing Landscape: Transforming P2P with the Visa Alias Directory
Season 1, Episode 6 of Money Travels presented by Visa. #VisaDirect #MoneyMovement #MoneyTravels Serge Elkiner and Lucho Torres discuss the security concerns of mobile payment services and the innovations that are helping increase security in money movement. The digitization of money movement has...
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Unexpected Departures: P2P Money Movement in Ukraine
Season 1, Episode 9 of Money Travels presented by Visa. #VisaDirect #MoneyMovement #MoneyTravels Explore the invisible infrastructure that enables money movement after a crisis with Gouranga Dhanagare and Valeriy Danylenko. When a crisis hits, traditional means of getting money become impossible...
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A Borderless World: Cross-Border Money Movement
Season 1, Episode 10 of Money Travels presented by Visa. #VisaDirect #MoneyMovement #MoneyTravels #Fiserv Join Richard Meszaros and Robert Clayton to examine the growing list of reasons why companies need better cross-border money movement solutions. No matter where a business is located, there…
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When Money Travels Without Permission: Fraud Protection and Security
Season 1, Episode 7 of Money Travels presented by Visa. #VisaDirect #MoneyMovement #MoneyTravels 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. We are all well aware of the risks of entering...
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Frequent Flyers: The Microtisation of Remittances
Season 1, Episode 8 of Money Travels presented by Visa. #VisaDirect #MoneyMovement #MoneyTravels Join Deepan Dagur and Aswin Phlaphongphanich for a deeper look at global remittances in Asia Pacific. Remittances span beyond overseas workers sending money back home. With more and more of our...
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Taking Off: Digital Wallets for a Digital World
Season 1, Episode 12 of Money Travels presented by Visa. #VisaDirect #MoneyMovement #MoneyTravels Pankaj Sharma and Ani Sane examine the rise of mobile wallets and what it means for behavioral economics as our finances go digital. Whether your wallet is tucked into your pocket, thrown in your...
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Fintechs: Money’s Superhighway
Season 1, Episode 11 of Money Travels presented by Visa. #VisaDirect #MoneyMovement #MoneyTravels Anastasia Serikova and Stergios Tsalis explore some of the enablers of the FinTech revolution and the resulting disruption of traditional financial services. FinTechs innovate how we pay and get…
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Expressway to Payday: Earned Wage Access
Season 1, Episode 4 of Money Travels presented by Visa. #VisaDirect #MoneyMovement #MoneyTravels Mike West, Paul Simpson, and Nick Newman discuss the latest developments in wage access that help employers pay their employees fast. From gig workers to full-timers, it seems people need to get paid...
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From Local to Global: Building a Borderless Network for Banks
Season 1, Episode 5 of Money Travels presented by Visa. #VisaDirect #MoneyMovement #MoneyTravels Norman Butler and Parikshit Bhattacharya reveal the infrastructure needed to move money across borders at the scale and speed we’ve come to expect. We put our money in banks to keep it safe, and maybe...
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Sending Money Home: Remittances in an Instant World
Season 1, Episode 3 of Money Travels presented by Visa. #VisaDirect #MoneyMovement #MoneyTravels Breno Andrade and Enrique Perezalonso discuss the unique needs of those who rely on remittances and the innovations being developed to address them. Migration has been a feature of human history for…
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En Route to Real-Time: Moving Money from Me to Me
Season 1, Episode 2 of Money Travels presented by Visa. #VisaDirect #MoneyMovement #MoneyTravels 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. Technology has enabled us to send money to friends...
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Why the World Needs a Better Global Money Movement Network
Season 1, Episode 1 of Money Travels presented by Visa. #VisaDirect #MoneyMovement #MoneyTravels Global Head of Visa Direct, Ruben Salazar Genovez, is here to chat about the challenges associated with building a worldwide money movement network. Through the digitization of money movement around…
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Money Travels presented by Visa (Podcast Trailer)
Welcome to Money Travels, presented by Visa, a podcast that is trekking across the globe and exploring the nuances of real-time¹ payments. Thanks to technology, we live in a world that becomes more interconnected every day, and as we grow closer, we not only see our similarities, but we also see...
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Money Travels explores the stories and people behind the extraordinary innovations in payments, money movement, and digital finance, while examining the impact they’re having on our lives and on economies across the world.
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