All Episodes
Off the Rails from the U.S. Faster Payments Council - FPC — 116 episodes
14 May 2026 Steve Ledford on Pay by Bank, Instant Payments Adoption, AI, Stablecoin
23 April 2026 Erin West of Operation Shamrock on Payments Scams
9 April 2026 Caroline Cypriano of JJ4Tech on QR Codes, Transaction Monitoring, and Surfing
26 March 2026 Cole Augustine on the Treasurer Perspective, personas vs use cases, and watersports
12 March 2026 Brian Dammeir of Plaid on Open Banking, Standards, Fraud/Risk, Pyramids, and the Oscars
26 February 2026 Steve Stevens with ASC X9 on the FPC/X9 Partnership
12 Feb 2026 Carl Slabick from BNY on driving corporate demand for instant payments, stablecoins, and Hamnet
29 Jan 2026 Kevin Olsen from Pidgin on Stablecoins, New Nacha Rules, Innovation, and Mumford and Sons
15 Jan 2026 Jim Filice from Visa on Visa Direct Real-Time Payments, Stablecoin, AI
18 Dec 2025 Mike Bilski of North American Banking Company Instant Payments Visa Direct Mastercard Send FedNow RTP Minnesota Twins Eggnog
4 Dec 2025 Craig Ramsey of ACI Worldwide on Stablecoins, Instant Payments, Cloud computing, and Formula 1
20 Nov 2025 Kyle Caldwell and Keith Melton from The Clearing House on the RTP Network and new Fraud Services from TCH
13 Nov 2025 Emanuela Saccarola from Citi on Cross Border Payments, Stablecoins, AI, and Skiing
23 Oct 2025 Dharshan Shanthamurthy from SISA on forensics-driven cybersecurity, AI, and Ironman
9 Oct 2025 Aaron McPherson of AFM on Stablecoins, Agentic AI, and Making Music
25 Sept. 2025 -- Carl Slabicki from BNY on cross border, AI, and open banking
EPISODE 100 -- Featuring special guest Reed Luhtanen, interviewed by ACI's Bridget Hall
28 August 2025 Greg Lloyd from Endava on AI, Stablecoins, B2B Payments and Seafood
14 August 2025 Kirsten Trusko from Payments as a Lifeline on Disaster Relief Payments, Digital Assets, and rehabbing a historic home
24 July 2025 Peter Tapling on Stablecoins, AI, Agentic Payments, QR Codes, and the NL Central
10 July 2025 Vishal Pasari of Euronet on International Learnings for Instant Payments and Squid Game on Netflix
26 June 2025 Karen Brown from CGI on Instant payments adoption, successes, and renovating historic homes
12 June 2025 Chris Harmse of BVNK on stablecoins, cross border payments, and skydiving
22 May 2025 Phillipa Wilson of Mastercard on cross border, business to business/B2B, AI, and the NBA playoffs
8 May 2025 James Watts of Mitek on Check Fraud, Payments Fraud, Dispute Resolution, and the Juicy Lucy
24 April 2025 Peter Davey of PaymentsJedi Advisory on killing checks, pay by bank, and Payments Beer Nerds
10 April 2025 Ross McFerrin of Trustly on Trump Executive Order Modernizing Payments to and from America's Bank Account
27 March 2025 Peter Tapling on Payments Headlines, Pay by Bank, and March Madness
13 March 2025 Tony Cook from First Bank and Donna Blum from BHMI on payments reconciliation
27 Feb 2025 Yamini Sagar of Instarails on Cross Border Payments
14 Feb 2025 Deepak Gupta from Volante Technologies
30 Jan 2025 Dave Glaser and Skyler Nesheim of Dwolla on retail payments, pay by bank, and Severance
16 January 2025 Raman Kumar of U.S. Bank on faster payments consumer use cases
19 December 2024 Holiday Special featuring Colin Parsons of Nasdaq Verafin on faster payments fraud
12 Dec 2024 Stephany Kirkpatrick and Dean Nolan on business to business faster payments
21 Nov 2024 Jim Colassano of The Clearing House on the RTP Network, Instant Payments Use Cases, and Thanksgiving Favorites
14 Nov 2024 Sumner Francisco from BNY on Open Banking and Pay by Bank
24 Oct 2024 Jane Hennessy of Finzly on all things faster payments implementation
10 Oct 2024 Anthony Serio of Sphere Labs on Web3 and Cross Border Faster Payments, Access to 5G, and Disneyland
26 Sept 2024 Yinglian Xie of Datavisor on all things faster payments fraud
12 Sept 2024 Sarah Hoisington from Matera on QR Codes for faster payments, fraud prevention, and the Detroit Lions
22 Aug 2024 Vishal Pasari of Euronet on driving adoption, predictions for the future, and skydiving
8 Aug 2024 Kaue Tozzi of Banked on pay by bank, the need for standards, and The Last of Us
25 July 2024 Fred Fuller of Endava on Faster Payments, Standards, and the top hits of the 1990s
11 July 2024 Matt Friend from JP Morgan Chase on pay by bank, standards, consumer protections, and the Baltimore Orioles
27 June 2024 Bridget Hall of ACI Worldwide on Instant Payments Trends, International Lessons Learned, and the joys of having a swimming pool
13 June 2024 Alex Gonthier of Trustly on Pay by Bank, Open Banking, Security
23 May 2024 Steve Wasserman, Elspeth Bloodgood, Kevin Olsen, and Travis Dulaney on the new book Smart Instant Payments
9 May 2024 Josh Karoly of Netflix and Andrew Gomez of Lipis Advisors on real-time recurring payments and the benefits of standards to drive usage and adoption
25 April 2024 Steve Mott of BetterBuyDesign on Faster Payments Standards, Mortgage Payments, and (literally) a Vespa
11 April 2024 Sam Aarons from Modern Treasury on the need for standards, catalyzying usage, and reality television
28 March 2024 Kirsten Trusko from Payments as a Lifeline on disaster relief payments, fraud, and doing well by doing good
14 March 2024 Kalpa Gupta of Knekxt Group on Fraud, Fraud Prevention
22 Feb 2024 John Drechny from the Merchant Advisory Group on instant payments for merchants
8 Feb 2024 Lee Kyriacou of The Clearing House and Amanda Compton of Arvest Bank on instant payments fraud, trust, and crochet
25 Jan 2024 Peter Davey from Alloy Labs on Instant Payments, FedNow, RTP, Fraud, Open Banking, APIs, and DMB
11 Jan 2024 Barry Tooker and Jonathan Holland on Cross Border Faster Payments, CBDCs, and Formula 1
21 Dec 2023 Colin Parsons from Verafin on faster payments fraud, check fraud, fraud prevention, and bagpipes
14 Dec 2023 Lou Grilli of PSCU and Jorge Jimenez of Juniper Payments, a PSCU Company on Instant Payments for Credit Unions, Fraud, and Guardians of the Galaxy
30 Nov. 2023 Dean Nolan with Strategic Resource Management on Instant Payments, Monetization, and Hawai'i
9 Nov 2023 Shaun Ferrari of Currency Research on Cash, Faster Payments, 90 Day Fiance, and more!
26 Oct. 2023 Art Brieske from Wells Fargo on The Keys to Faster Payments Adoption, Updates from Wells Fargo, and More
12 Oct 2023 Stephany Kirkpatrick of Orum on Account Verification, Time to Money, Artificial Intelligence, and getting enough sleep
28 Sept 2023 Mike Vigue on Instant Payments, FedNow, RTP, and New England in the winter
14 Sept. 2023 Jonathan Shiery of Guidehouse on Real Estate Payments, Blockchain, RTP, FedNow, and 4th grade math
24 August 2024 Carl Slabicki of BNY Mellon on instant payments, FedNow, open banking, financial inclusion, and Mission: Impossible
10 August 2023 Josh Karoly from Netflix on instant payments, recurring payments, user experience
27 July 2023 Jim Colassano of The Clearing House on the RTP Network, Interoperability, Instant Payments Use Cases, and Indiana Jones
13 July 2023 Dr. Angela Murphy, "Payments Elsa," on faster payments, data, AI, payments experiences, musical theatre
22 June 2023 Bradley Wilkes of Open Payment Network on On-boarding, interoperability, fraud, and pickleball
8 June 2023 Miriam Sheril of Form3 on Interoperability, Payments Technology, APIs, and Pocket Aces
25 May 2023 ChatGPT and Peter Tapling on Generative AI, Faster Payments, Financial Inclusion, and Micropayments
11 May 2023 Chris Jewell and Trev Wistaff of Zepto on Australia's NPP, faster payments use cases, and zero turn mowers
27 April 2023 John Drechny from the MAG on Faster Payments for merchants, use cases, ecommerce, point of sale, and mountain biking
13 April 2023 Mark Majeske of Alacriti on Faster Payments Use Cases, Fraud, and chainsaws
23 March 2023 Alex Gonthier CEO and Founder of Trustly on Instant Payments, Irrevocability, and dining in Paris
9 March 2023 Steve Wasserman from Vments and Charles Harkness from Corporate One FCU on Faster Payments Education, Use Cases, Digital Assets, and Healthy Eating
23 Feb 2023 Phillipa Wilson of Mastercard on payments infrastructure, financial inclusion, and faster payments use cases
9 Feb 2023 Lana Swartz Prof. at the Univ. of Virginia and Author of New Money: How Payment Became Social Media
26 Jan 2023 Joanne Strobel and Sumit Arora of Wells Fargo on ISO 20022, faster payments use cases, cryptocurrencies, and more
12 Jan 2023 David Dwumah from OurBanc on Financial Inclusion, ESG, community, and barbecue
29 Dec 2022 Mark Field of Liberty Bank on Instant Payments, FedNow, Fraud, Liability, and It's a Wonderful Life
15 Dec 2022 Dan Baum from the Federal Reserve on FedNow, Instant Payments, Fraud, Risk, use cases
1 December 2022 Jack Baldwin of BHMI and Nathan Churchward of Cuscal on Faster Payments in Australia, Lessons Learned, and a top NYC restaurant to hit
17 November 2022 Matt Howarter of Walmart on Instant Payments, point of sale, ecommerce, user experience, fraud, irrevocability
27 Oct. 2022 Moa Agrell of Trustly and Dean Nolan of Fifth Third Bank on faster payments APIs, irrevocability, point of sale, ecommerce, FedNow, RTP
13 Oct. 2022 Kevin Christensen of Shazam on FedNow, RTP, Community Financial Institutions, CBDCs
22 Sept 2022 Anthony Walton of Iliad solutions on ISO 20022, blockchain for faster payments, fraud
8 Sept. 2022 Al Bodine of Bankers' Bank on the role of a bankers bank, the important of faster payments, blockchain, and APIs
25 August 2022 Srinivas Chintakrinda of Volante Technologies on payments overload, ISO 20022, use cases, and digital assets
11 August 2022 Gail Hillebrand from NCL and Adam Rust from NCRC on Financial Inclusion, CBDCs, faster payments use cases
28 July 2022 Scott Green of Shazam and Steve Mott of BetterBuyDesign on QR Codes for Faster Payments, Interoperability, Point of Sale, and premium whiskeys
14 July 2022 Rusiru Gunasena of Jack Henry on faster payments implementation, use cases, APP fraud, NFTs
30 Jun 2022 Art Brieske of Goldman Sachs and Jim Magats of PayPal on Pay by Bank, Open Banking, CBDC, and irrevocability
9 June 2022 Mike Bilski from North American Banking Company on faster payments, crypto, community banks, RTP, FedNow, and the future of payments
26 May 2022 Vlad Jovanovic from PSCU and Jorge Jimenez from Juniper Payments on payments modernization, automation, use cases, digital assets, and crypto
12 May 2022 Sumit Arora from Wells Fargo on payments modernization, fintechs, and faster payments
28 April 2022 James Sellick of Ripple and Barry Tooker of iSoftware4Banks on cross border payments, international, crypto, and digital assets
14 April 2022 Deborah Baxley of Paygility and Andrew Haskell of BNY Mellon on faster payments fraud, the metaverse, and mobile payments
24 Mar 2022 Kevin Miyamoto from Identifee on faster payments training, data, banks, and education
10 Mar 2022 Eric Foust from Trustly on open banking, RTP transactions, FedNow, and faster payments trends
24 Feb 2022 Peter Tapling from PTap Advisory on faster payments directory, corporate treasurers, and businesses
10 Feb 2022 Carl Slabicki from BNY Mellon on FedNow, point of sale, instant payments use cases, and RTP
27 Jan 2022 Peter Davey from The Clearing House on RTP, instant payments, cryptocurrency, and payments data
13 Jan 2022 Charles Harkness Corporate One and Steve Wasserman Vments on faster payments education and awareness, RTP, FedNow, QR Code payments, and directory services
20 Dec 2021 Elizabeth McQuerry and Sam Levitt from Glenbrook Partners on business payments, barometer, FedNow, RTP, Instant Payments
22 Nov 2021 Hope Hacker from Nationwide and Josh Karoly from Netflix on recurring payments, FedNow, RTP, instant payments, real-time payments, corporate treasurer
28 October 2021 Booshan Rengachari from Finzly on bank payments, RTP, FedNow, cost, interoperability, user experience
5 October 2021 Connie Theien from the Federal Reserve System on business end users, FedNow, instant payments
31 Aug 2021 Ross McFerrin from Trustly on instant payments, open banking, fraud
29 July 2021 Craig Ramsey of ACI Worldwide on payments hubs, central bank digital currency, user experience, international payments
21 June 2021 Krish Chandrashekaran from Mindgate Solutions and Tony Cook from FirstBank on instant payments adoption, obstacles, fintechs, financial institutions, payment user experience
19 May 2021 Carl Slabicki from BNY Mellon on instant payments interoperability, ubiquity, use cases, RTP and FedNow
29 April 2021 FPC Spring Conference Recap
24 Mar 2021 Joe Casali from NEACH on financial institutions, fintechs, banking as a service
16 Feb 2021 Steve Ledford from The Clearing House on RTP Real-time payments, instant payments, use cases