Wrap Up

Stablecoins. AI agents. Cross-border payments. The future of money is changing faster than most companies realize. In this episode of the WRAP UP podcast, I sit down with David Rosa, General Manager at Rapyd , to discuss one of the biggest transformations happening across financial services today. We explore the launch of OpenUSD and what it means for the stablecoin market, why Rapyd believes stab...

In this episode of the WRAP UP podcast, I sit down with Raagulan Pathy, Founder & CEO of KAST and former Vice President at Circle . While most companies in crypto and stablecoins are focused on infrastructure, Raagulan believes the biggest opportunity lies elsewhere: building products for end users. We discuss why he left Circle to launch Kast, a stablecoin-powered neobank serving customers in...

I sat down with Myles Stephenson , CEO of Modulr, to talk through how the company evolved from powering early Revolut t to building a full-stack payments automation platform serving lenders, payroll providers, and travel companies. Modulr made a deliberate call two years ago to stop being a horizontal BaaS provider and go deep on specific verticals. They hold an EMI licence, settle at the Bank of...

This is my first-ever in-person episode, recorded live at Stripe Tour London. I sat down with Neetika Bansal, Business Lead for Connect, Money Management, and Crypto at Stripe. We covered a lot of ground: why Stripe doesn’t have its own stablecoin, what Stripe Treasury actually means for global startups, how AI agents are starting to transact at scale, and where the real stablecoin volume is comin...

Banks are not being replaced by AI. They are being rebuilt around it. Tim Rutten, Chief Marketing Officer at Backbase, joins me to break down what that actually means for your career and for the industry. Jamie Dimon wants fewer bankers and more AI builders. But what does that really mean for the thousands of finance professionals already in the workforce? Tim gives a more nuanced read, and it is...

In this episode, I sit down with Davi Strazza, Chief Business Officer at Lightspark and former President of North America at Adyen, to discuss why traditional payment infrastructure remains broken despite decades of innovation—and how Lightspark is using Bitcoin, Lightning, stablecoins, and AI to build a new financial network. We cover: Why 15% of online transactions still fail The limitations of...

In this episode of the WRAP UP Podcast, I sit down with Coinbase UK CEO Keith Grose to discuss why stablecoins, tokenized assets, and blockchain infrastructure are starting to move from the edge of finance into the core of the global financial system. We discuss why the UK is becoming one of Coinbase’s most important markets, how stablecoins could reshape cross-border payments and treasury operati...

In this episode of the WRAP UP Podcast, I speak with Tyler Allen, CEO of Unit21, about why AI agents may become one of the most important tools in the fight against financial crime. Tyler explains why traditional rules-based systems and machine learning models are no longer enough as fraud becomes faster, more automated, and more sophisticated. He also breaks down how AI agents can help compliance...

What happens when every bank, fintech, and enterprise launches its own stablecoin? In this episode of the WRAP UP Podcast, I sit down with Sam Broner, the CEO of The Better Money Company, a former investor at Andreessen Horowitz, and a former engineer at Microsoft, to discuss why he left venture capital to build a stablecoin company. Sam is building what he calls a stablecoin clearinghouse infrast...

In this episode of the WRAP UP Podcast, I sit down with David Messenger, CEO of Global Businesses at Pingpong Payments , to unpack what really happens behind cross-border payments and why moving money globally is still far more complex than most businesses realize. We explore how global payments infrastructure is evolving beyond simple money movement into a full-stack ecosystem of compliance, FX,...

In this episode of the WRAP UP Podcast, I sit down with Noah Levine, Partner at @a16z , to unpack one of the biggest emerging shifts in commerce: agentic commerce. We explore why agent-led transactions are not just about AI buying shoes or booking flights on behalf of consumers, but about a much deeper change in how commerce infrastructure may work. Noah explains why the near-term opportunity may...