The Payments Space™

Stephanie Hottle, AAP, APRP, Director, Payments Education, joins host Anne-Marie Leake to unpack changes to the Nacha Operating Rules in 2024 and 2025 that support the fight against fraud, laying the groundwork for a Part II discussion of the fraud monitoring rules going into effect in 2026. This episode's compliance insight is vital to all ACH participants and stakeholders.

Host Anne-Marie Leake is joined by ePayAdvisors' Crissy Terry and Amber Schweiger to talk about why DIY may not be the right approach when your institution’s compliance and risk management are at stake. Listen in to find out the importance of a testing vs. inquiry only approach and why It can pay off for your institution in the long run to outsource these very important tasks to outside experts.

In the last of the episodes recorded at Nacha's Payments 2024, guest host Peter Davey, The Payments Jedi, sits down with Dean Jenkins, Principal Digital Strategist for Q2, one of ePayResources' Vendor Partners. Listen in as they discuss the holistic approach to improving the workflow of payments; driving SMB adoption from the outside in; and how technology levels the playing field.

Recorded in the ePayResources booth at Payments 2024, guest host Peter Davey, The Payments Jedi, poses some important questions to Joe Proto, payments industry influencer, innovator, and leader, and recipient of ePayResources' first-ever Lifetime Achievement Award in 2022. Listen in as Joe shares invaluable insight from his decades as a payments senior executive and fintech entrepreneur, including why the fintech-FI relationship is so important and what the new generation of CFOs is looking for.

Host Anne-Marie Leake is joined by ePayAdvisors’ Crissy Terry, Vice President, Payments Consulting, to continue the discussion of overcoming barriers to instant payments. The Early Adopter ship has sailed, but you can still be a Fast Follower! Crissy provides important insight into how to hear what your customers or members need even if they aren’t asking for instant payments by name; how to address the number one stumbling block - fraud - by using systems' features and by partnering with solution providers for additional tools; and what ePayResources and ePayAdvisors offer to help you develop your payments strategy and to guide you towards successful implementation. 

In her decades with the Federal Reserve Bank, Nell Campbell-Drake, Vice President in Industry Relations of the Federal Reserve Financial Services enterprise, has been an invaluable partner of the Payments Associations and other industry stakeholders. Our guest host Peter Davey, The Payments Jedi, got to visit with Nell at Payments 2024 to discuss the expansion of the U.S. payments ecosystem during her career; the current focus on financial inclusion; and the importance of recognizing generational differences in the marketplace.

In this fascinating episode recorded at Payments 2024, guest host Peter Davey, the Payments Jedi, sits with Caroline Cypriano, Co-Founder & COO of Miami-based JJ4Tech, a fintech member of the U.S. Faster Payments Council and Nacha's Payments Innovation Alliance. Caroline gives us the inside scoop on the success of Pix, the Brazilian instant payments system that has experienced remarkable growth since its launch in 2020.