The Payments Shed

AI agents are learning how to shop, negotiate and pay. But who is actually authorising them? In this special episode of The Payments Shed Podcast, filmed live at Money20/20 USA 2026 in Las Vegas, we're joined by Pat Kinsel, Founder and CEO of Proof, to explore one of the biggest challenges emerging from agentic commerce: establishing trust in a world where machines increasingly act on behalf of hu...

Checkout.com powers payments for some of the world's best-known brands, and most of the people paying will never know its name. That's the point. In this episode of The Payments Shed, Justin Hanna chats with Rory O'Neill, Chief Marketing Officer at Checkout.com live from Money 20/20 USA 2026, to talk about the thinking behind putting an "invisible" product in some of the worl...

In the latest episode of The Payments Shed Podcast, filmed live from our London studio , Grant Evans and Liam Gray are joined by Dr. Omer Dawelbeit, Principal Solutions Architect at AWS, and Victor Mithouard, Senior Director of Payments at Mambu , for a conversation exploring how artificial intelligence is transforming payment decisioning, reducing fraud and enabling financial institutions to move...

Modern Treasury likes to build in-house, but card data changes the maths. On the floor at Money20/20 USA in Las Vegas, Sarah Stapp sits down with Matt Craig (Product, Modern Treasury) and Shane Curran (Founder & CEO, Evervault) to talk about owning more of the stack. Matt explains why Modern Treasury has applied for a national trust bank charter and why building in-house is the default. He als...

In the latest episode of The Payments Shed Podcast, filmed live from our London studio , Liam Gray and Justin Hanna are joined by Lena Hackeloer, Founder and CEO of Brite Payments , for a conversation exploring the future of checkout, the rise of account-to-account (A2A) payments, European payments sovereignty and what it takes to build and scale a successful fintech. Lena takes us inside the chan...

In the latest episode of The Payments Shed Podcast, filmed live from our New York studio , Sarah Stapp is joined by Albert Periu, CEO USA of Super Payments , for a conversation exploring whether zero-cost payment processing can genuinely work, why merchants are paying more than they realise and what it takes to bring a disruptive UK fintech proposition into the US market. Albert takes us inside Su...

In the latest episode of The Payments Shed Podcast, filmed live from our London studio , Liam Gray and Justin Hanna are joined by Sami Doyle, CEO & Founder of TMU Management , for a conversation exploring why merchant risk management needs to change, how insurance could transform the acquiring industry and why traditional approaches to protecting against chargebacks may be holding good busines...

In the latest episode of The Payments Shed Podcast, filmed live from our London studio , Grant Evans and Justin Hanna are joined by Mike Walters, CEO of Form3 , for a conversation exploring the invisible infrastructure powering the global financial system, why instant payments are becoming the new normal and how cloud technology, operational resilience and emerging payment rails are reshaping bank...

In the latest episode of The Payments Shed Podcast, filmed live from Money20/20 USA 2026 in Las Vegas , Justin Hanna is joined by Daniel Weiss, CEO of Highwater Bound Capital and Compliance , for a special conversation exploring the realities of fintech licensing and compliance, the lessons learned from building and selling a successful business, and what competing as a Team USA triathlete can tea...

In the latest episode of The Payments Shed Podcast , Grant Evans and Jasmine Chana are joined by Conor Lyden, Founder & CEO of Trustap , for a conversation exploring why trust is becoming one of the most important foundations of modern commerce, how transaction protection is evolving beyond marketplaces and what happens when AI agents start buying and selling on our behalf. Conor takes us insi...

Should you build your own payments stack? Merchants usually hear one of two answers. Use one big PSP for everything, or use an orchestrator with dozens of PSPs underneath. Shane Curran thinks more merchants should own it themselves. In this episode of The Payments Shed Podcast, Sarah Stapp is joined by Shane Curran, Founder and CEO at Evervault, to take the other side of the orchestration versus o...

In the latest episode of The Payments Shed Podcast, filmed live from Money20/20 USA 2026 in Las Vegas , Sarah Stapp is joined by Ugne Buraciene, Group CEO of payabl. , for a special Walk & Talk exploring why payments have become increasingly complicated for merchants, how expectations of payment providers are evolving and why the next big opportunity in payments innovation could be everything...

In the latest episode of The Payments Shed Podcast, filmed live from Money20/20 USA 2026 in Las Vegas , Kara Parkey is joined by Dan Owens, Chief Strategy Officer at Oceanpayment , for a special Walk & Talk exploring how payment orchestration is reshaping the relationship between merchants and payment providers, why traditional merchant loyalty is being challenged and what it really takes to b...

When did you first learn how money works? For most of us it wasn't at school. Children pick up money habits early, yet many still leave school without being taught how to manage it. And the first real lesson often comes on a credit card in their twenties. So how do you teach a nine-year-old to earn, save, spend and give? In this episode of The Payments Shed Podcast, Grant Evans and Justin Hann...

In the latest episode of The Payments Shed Podcast, filmed live from Money20/20 USA 2026 in Las Vegas , Sarah Stapp is joined by Mike Ward, CEO of Mica , for a special conversation exploring why the payments industry continues to operate across fragmented rails, whether stablecoins really solve the problems they're promising to fix and why the future of payments could look very different if we...

In the latest episode of The Payments Shed Podcast, filmed live from Money20/20 USA 2026 in Las Vegas , Sarah Stapp is joined by Klas Bäck, Co-Founder & CEO of Pagos , for a special Walk & Talk exploring how artificial intelligence is changing the way merchants manage payments, why better visibility into payment performance is becoming essential and how collaboration could help businesses...

In the latest episode of The Payments Shed Podcast, filmed live from Money20/20 USA 2026 in Las Vegas , Svante Westerberg is joined by Brad Wiskirchen, Chief Commercial Officer at Chargebacks911 and CEO of Fi911 , for a special Walk & Talk exploring the future of fraud prevention, the growing role of artificial intelligence in dispute management and why the payments industry's approach to...

In the latest episode of The Payments Shed Podcast, filmed live from Money20/20 USA 2026 in Las Vegas , Jason Heister is joined by Zor Gorelov, CEO of Blue Language Labs , for a special Walk & Talk exploring the next evolution of agentic commerce, where AI agents move beyond simply making payments to negotiating agreements, placing orders and conducting business on our behalf. As artificial in...

In the latest episode of The Payments Shed Podcast, filmed live from Money20/20 USA 2026 in Las Vegas , Kara Parkey is joined by Spencer Levitt, Co-Founder of Coast , for a special Walk & Talk exploring how artificial intelligence is transforming product demonstrations, why selling complex financial technology is becoming increasingly challenging and what it takes to build trust in an AI-drive...

In the latest episode of The Payments Shed Podcast, filmed live from Money20/20 USA 2026 in Las Vegas , Jason Heister is joined by Pooja Shah, Head of Product at Rain , for a special Walk & Talk exploring how stablecoins are transforming card issuing, why traditional settlement infrastructure is holding businesses back and how Rain is building a new generation of global payments infrastructure...

In the latest episode of The Payments Shed Podcast, filmed live from Money20/20 USA 2026 in Las Vegas , Svante Westerberg is joined by Stephano Maciel, Co-Founder & CEO of ATTRUS , for a special Walk & Talk exploring the challenges of cross-border payments, the rapid evolution of Latin America's financial infrastructure and how businesses can unlock growth across the Americas. Every fi...

In the latest episode of The Payments Shed Podcast, filmed live from Money20/20 USA 2026 in Las Vegas , Jason Heister is joined by Jeff Hallenbeck, VP of Customer Advocacy at Adyen , for a special Walk & Talk exploring how AI agents are transforming commerce, why fraud is becoming increasingly complex and how payments data is creating new opportunities for merchants. With Adyen processing over...

In the latest episode of The Payments Shed Podcast, filmed live from Money20/20 USA 2026 in Las Vegas , Svante Westerberg is joined by Michael (Mike) Corigliano, US Team Lead, Partnerships at adjoe , for a special Walk & Talk exploring how fintech businesses can drive growth beyond transactions, build stronger customer relationships and unlock new revenue opportunities through engagement and r...

In the latest episode of The Payments Shed Podcast, filmed live from Money20/20 USA in Las Vegas , Sarah Stapp is joined by Joe Dowd, Principal Partner & VP, Americas , for a special Walk & Talk exploring what's really happening behind the scenes in payments recruitment, which businesses are winning the talent race and how emerging technologies are reshaping the industry's hiring p...

In the latest episode of The Payments Shed Podcast, filmed live from Money20/20 USA in Las Vegas , Jason Heister is joined by Matt Wren, Managing Consultant specialising in Fintech , for a special Walk & Talk exploring what it really takes for fintech businesses to win banking customers, navigate lengthy enterprise sales cycles and build the right teams to support international growth. With th...