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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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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
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 into Africa's leading stablecoin...
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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 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
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 and receiving money. We explore the...
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How Agentic AI is Changing the Financial Health of Millions
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 pursuing this cause with the Financial Health...
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How the Gates Foundation Brings Financial Access to Billions
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 financial inclusion across the globe…
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How DailyPay Is Reshaping The Financial Lives Of Americans
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 model has seen many go into debt, with...
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Her Genius Plan to Solve Asia Cross-Border Trade Challenges
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 brings together regulators, thought leaders…
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His Brilliant Idea to Change Global Payments
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 payments for its customers was turbo-charged…
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Why Singapore Fintech Wants To Solve Financial Access
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 extraordinary insight into the country’s...
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How Singapore’s Fintech Boom Is Changing Lives
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 government initiatives helping to make it the...
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How JP Nicols Broke the Bank with Fintech Innovation
Money Travels Podcast Season 3, Episode 1 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 traditional model was no longer working – and that other companies were better placed to give...
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Money Travels Season 3 Podcast Trailer
We're back with Season 3 of the Money Travels podcast. Follow along as 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.New Hosts: Maxime Guirauton and...
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How Small Businesses Are Making Big Money Moves
Welcome to the final episode of Money Travels season 2. 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 economies are mainly powered by SMBs, and SMBs are often the catalysts...
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When Gaming Becomes Income: Money Movement’s Next Play
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 Partnerships & Advocacy. This conversation gets into how creators are engaging in the online gaming space and how online...
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Keeping Up with Foreign Exchange in Real Time
Timing when to exchange money from one currency to another is something we've probably all experienced. Domestic payments are getting faster and cheaper in many countries. The challenge now is to link those systems together and make cross-border payments as fast and as seamless as the best…
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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
Welcome to Money Travels, presented by Visa. Years into the FinTech revolution, many people still struggle with money management and learning how to use all these new tools at their fingertips and with money going digital in many instances, how do we teach our kids who really benefit from a...
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How Online Gaming Money Movement Is Leveling Up
In this episode we explore the explosion of the online platforms for gaming, and the challenges and opportunities that they present for money movement. From dealing with evolving regulations to the vast differences and payout amounts, and the critical importance of speed, the online gaming space…
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Seas of Change: Digital Money Movement and the Cruise Industry
Welcome to Money Travels season 2 where we explore money movement around the globe. 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 results in a career like for those that work on cruise...
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Banking the Underbanked: Making Money Movement More Inclusive
Welcome to Money Travels presented by Visa. 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 head of strategy at Paysend, a global fintech company, and Lucciana Alvarez Ruiz to...
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One-Stop Shop: The Reach of Tencent with Money Movement Integration
Welcome to Money Travels. In episode 4 of season 2 we talk to some of the experts who are building the tools that will transform the next generation of money movement. Tencent is a multinational technology conglomerate and one of the world's largest social media companies. WeChat or Weixin, as…
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The Fight Against Fraud: Unleashing AI Superpowers
Welcome to Money Travels Season 2, Episode 3. 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 to stop fraud before it happens, often with the…
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Staying Ahead of Fraudsters: Protecting Your Digital Identity
Welcome to episode 2, season 2 of Money Travels. 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 these digital identifiers can be sent anywhere to...
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The Future of Money Movement: Collaboration & Connections
Welcome to Money Travels. 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 is still slowing things down? What might successful partnerships in…
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Taking Off: Digital Wallets for a Digital World
Whether your wallet is tucked into your pocket, thrown in your purse, or a swipe away on your smartphone, the way you handle your money has an effect on your actions - whether intentional or not. Today, Pankaj Sharma, Global Lead, Wallets, Product & Commercialization, Visa Direct at Visa and Ani...
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Fintechs: Money’s Superhighway
FinTechs innovate how we pay and get paid. And their meteoric rise would not have been possible without networks like Visa Direct that help modernize payments by enabling transparent, real-time* money movement through eligible debit cards. Today, hear about the infrastructure behind the rise of...
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A Borderless World: Cross-Border Money Movement
No matter where a business is located, there is a high chance that business has customers in other places around the world. In addition to those goods and services crossing boundaries, so can the payment and the payout. Today, Richard Meszaros, Vice President and Head of Cross Border Money…
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Unexpected Departures: P2P Money Movement in Ukraine
When a crisis hits, traditional means of getting money become impossible and refugees fleeing dangerous situations often leave everything behind - including documents that are needed to access their money in a different country. Join Gouranga Dhanagare, the new VP, Head of Visa Direct for the…
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Frequent Flyers: The Microtisation of Remittances
Remittances span beyond overseas workers sending money back home. With more and more of our financial transactions going digital, people are remitting money to pay for overseas education, property, healthcare, or tourism. Dive deeper into global remittances, particularly in Asia Pacific, with...
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When Money Travels Without Permission: Fraud Protection and Security
We are all well aware of the risks of entering sensitive personal information online, but the pull of convenience can often be stronger than our fears of being defrauded. Sue Onians, Vice President of Visa Direct Ecosystem and Risk, joins Indre Viskontas to discuss the evolution of financial…
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A Changing Landscape: Transforming P2P with the Visa Alias Directory
The digitization of money movement has made cash and checks virtually obsolete, but moving money from point A to point B still often means that sensitive banking information has to change hands. Indre Viskontas is joined by Serge Elkiner, CEO of YellowPepper and Head of Product at Visa Direct…
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From Local to Global: Building a borderless network for banks
We put our money in banks to keep it safe, and maybe watch it grow. But now that the digital revolution is here, and we’ve gotten a taste for real-time money movement, we want that same ease to be in place when we bank. To show us how it’s done, Indre Viskontas is speaking with Norman Butler, the...
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Expressway to Payday: Earned Wage Access
From gig workers to full timers, it seems people need to get paid faster than ever these days. That's why Visa Direct is helping businesses across the globe strengthen their workforce and increase retention by giving employees fast access to the money they've earned. On this episode of Money...
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Sending Money Home: Remittances in an Instant World
Migration has been a feature of human history for as long as we’ve been able to track it, but payment methods have not kept up with the need for safe and efficient ways to send funds home to loved ones. On this episode of Money Travels, presented by Visa, host Indre Viskontas is joined by Breno...
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En Route to Real-Time: Moving Money from Me to Me
Technology has enabled us to send money to friends or buy something in-store with the tap of a button. So why is it still so difficult to move money between our own accounts? On this episode of Money Travels, presented by Visa, host Indre Viskontas is joined by Nicole Stiller, VP Head of Domestic...
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Why The World Needs a Better Global Money Movement Network
Through the digitization of money movement around the world, a time-consuming process that lacked transparency has slowly improved. But how do we build an even better global money movement network? On this episode of Money Travels, presented by Visa, host Indre Viskontas is joined by the Global...
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Welcome to Money Travels presented by Visa
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 the unique needs of people in every corner of the globe. So, the question begs to be asked, how can we use the very innovations that have...
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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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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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