The Payments Shed
Welcome to The Payments Shed, the podcast where payments, fintech and business leaders share the ideas shaping the future of commerce. Hosted by Grant Evans, Justin Hanna, Sarah Stapp, Kara Parkey, Liam Gray, Jasmine Chana, Jason Heister and Rogier Rouppe van der Voort, our team has held leadership roles at Global Payments, Worldpay, PayPal, Braintree, Aeropay, MX, Coast, AFT, VGS, Checkout.com, Plaid and PCN. Join a community of 200k+ LinkedIn followers and 350k+ YouTube subscribers for practical insights, honest conversations and strategies from the people building the future of business.
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Ep. 175 - The Hidden Engine: Cloud, Instant Payments and the Infrastructure Powering the Financial System, with Form3
<p>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 banking.</p><p>Mike takes us inside the engine room of modern payments, exploring the critical role Form3 plays in helping banks and fintechs move money securely and reliably at scale. While much of the industry's attention focuses on...
Ep. 174 - From the Racecourse to the Boardroom: Compliance, Grit and Team USA, with Highwater Bound, live from Money 20/20 USA 2026
<p>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 teach you about leadership, resilience and entrepreneurship.</p><p>Daniel takes us inside the journey from founding Chartwell Compliance to building Highwater Bound, reflecting on what motivated him to return to entrepreneurship after successfully exiting his previous...
Ep. 173 - From Marketplaces to AI Agents: Why Trust Is Becoming the New Payments Infrastructure, with Trustap's Conor Lyden
<p>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.</p><p>Conor takes us inside the story behind Trustap and its journey from marketplace payments to global transaction protection. Built around solving the trust challenges that exist between buyers and sellers, Trustap now supports transactions across hundreds of...
Ep. 172 - Break the Bundle: Why Merchants Are Building Their Own Payments Stack, with Evervault
<p>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 ownership debate.Shane explains why orchestrators struggle in smaller local markets, how cross-border fees can turn a few basis points into 2% or 3%, and why he would add PSPs one country at a...
Ep. 171 - What Merchants Will Demand From Payments in 2027, with payabl, live from Money 20/20 USA 2026
<p>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 that happens after checkout.</p><p>For years, merchants have been encouraged to adopt more payment methods, integrate additional providers and introduce new technologies to improve performance. But has all that choice actually made payments harder to manage...
Ep. 170 - When Merchants Can Switch: What Makes a Payments Business Defensible? With Oceanpayment, live from Money 20/20 USA 2026
<p>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 build a defensible payments business.</p><p>For years, payment service providers and acquirers have relied on deep technical integrations to build long-term merchant relationships. But as orchestration platforms make it easier for merchants to connect with multiple providers...
Ep. 169 - Raising a Financially Smarter Generation: Building GoHenry and the Case for Financial Education, with goHenry Founder and CEO Louise Hill
<p>When did you first learn how money works? </p><p>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. </p><p>And the first real lesson often comes on a credit card in their twenties.</p><p>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 Hanna are joined by Louise Hill, Founder and CEO of GoHenry, to talk about building the youth fintech category and...
Ep. 168 - One Rail, One Price: Taking the Credential out of Payments, with Mica, live from Money 20/20 USA 2026
<p>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 rethink how transactions are authorised and priced.</p><p>From traditional cards and bank accounts to stablecoins, loyalty points and digital wallets, the payments ecosystem has become increasingly complex. Every new way to pay seems...
Ep. 167 - AI Joins The Payments Team, with Pagos, live from Money 20/20 USA 2026
<p>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 solve some of the industry's most persistent challenges.</p><p>For years, payments teams have relied heavily on data analysts, technical specialists and complex reporting tools to understand what's happening across their payment infrastructure. Now, AI is beginning to c...
Ep. 166 - From Kount to Fi911: Brad Wiskirchen’s Next Chapter, live from Money 20/20 USA 2026
<p>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 risk and compliance is entering a new chapter.</p><p>Having previously served as the founding CEO of Kount, building the business through to its acquisition by Equifax, Brad is no stranger to scaling technology businesses in the payments...
