969. News: Griffin goes AI, Mastercard’s new partnerships, and the top stories live from Money20/20

Fintech Insider Podcast by 11:FS

About this episode:

Host David Barton-Grimley, Director of Strategy at 11:FS, is joined by a fantastic panel of guests live at Money20/20 Europe, to dive into the biggest announcements and news stories from the conference.

Stories covered on the podcast:

Griffin announces the launch of its MCP server, AI Griffin. Openpayd expands its offering into stablecoins with infrastructure designed to better move and manage money globally. Mastercard announces major partnerships to drive the adoption of tokenisation, Click to Pay, and passkeys. We also hear about GoCardless’s new outbound payments feature, payabl.’s virtual business card launch, and Zilch’s partnership with Visa to offer a physical card. Plus, our three panellists share some personal Money20/20 highlights.

This week's guests:

• David Jarvis - CEO at Griffin
• Lara Barbuto - Director of Compliance, Compliance Officer & MLRO at OpenPayd.
• Brice Van de Walle - Executive VP, Core Payments Europe at Mastercard

Also featuring voice notes from:

• Ruwani Hewa, Product & Propositions Director at GoCardless
• Laust Bertelsen, Co-founder of Banking Circle
• Ugne Buraciene, Group CEO of payabl.
• Philip Belamant -CEO and co-founder of Zilch

Timestamps/stories:

⁠Intro - (00:00)⁠

⁠⁠Griffin has announced the launch of its MCP Server, AI Griffin-(5.25)

⁠⁠OpenPayd launches stablecoin infrastructure to move and manage money globally- (15.39)

⁠⁠Mastercard has partnered with major players like Santander, Delivery Hero, N26, and Worldline to drive adoption of tokenization, Click to Pay, and passkeys⁠⁠-(26.47)

GoCardless expands payment platform with Outbound Payments-⁠⁠⁠⁠(37.08)

⁠⁠payabl. launches virtual Business Cards to empower smarter business spending-(38.08)

⁠⁠Zilch partners with Visa to accelerate growth and launch a physical card⁠⁠⁠⁠- (39.10)

Banking Circle Partners with Visa Direct to Boost Global Payments- (40.10)

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