
Off the Rails from the U.S. Faster Payments Council - FPC
Hosted by the Faster Payments Council, FPC Executive Director Reed Luhtanen goes off the rails and chats with payments industry insiders on the latest trends and headlines in faster payments. Guests include experts from across the payments ecosystem who have been working to advance the U.S. market toward its faster payments future.
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Apr 24, 2025 • 30min
24 April 2025 Peter Davey of PaymentsJedi Advisory on killing checks, pay by bank, and Payments Beer Nerds
Join FPC Executive Director Reed Luhtanen as he goes off the rails with Peter Davey of PaymentsJedi Advisory. Reed and Peter dig into the factors that have persisted in keeping checks in circulation, the continued growth of pay by bank, and the San Diego beer scene. Join the FPC and register at fasterpaymentscouncil.org

Apr 10, 2025 • 25min
10 April 2025 Ross McFerrin of Trustly on Trump Executive Order Modernizing Payments to and from America's Bank Account
Join FPC Executive Director Reed Luhtanen as he goes off the rails with Ross McFerrin of Trustly. Reed and Ross dig into the recently announced Trump administration executive order that aims to significantly curtail the use of checks by the federal government, the rapid growth in usage of instant payments in the United States, and the NCAA tournament. FPC Spring Member Meeting is coming up! Join the FPC and register at fasterpaymentscouncil.org

Mar 27, 2025 • 33min
27 March 2025 Peter Tapling on Payments Headlines, Pay by Bank, and March Madness
Join FPC Executive Director and CEO Reed Luhtanen as he goes off the rails with Peter Tapling, Managing Director at PTap Advisory. Reed and Peter talk about topical headlines in the payments arena, the best places to grab a beer on this year's conference circuit (San Diego, Boston, and Portland, ME all in the same year!), and the growth of pay by bank. Register for the FPC's Spring Member meeting at www.fasterpaymentscouncil.org!

Mar 13, 2025 • 34min
13 March 2025 Tony Cook from First Bank and Donna Blum from BHMI on payments reconciliation
Join FPC executive director Reed Luhtanen as he goes Off the Rails with Tony Cook of FirstBank and Donna Blum of BHMI. The trio discusses the difficulties of payments reconciliation and the ways payments modernization can help streamline that process. They also discuss the recently released paper from the FPC's Operational Considerations Work Group. Find that paper here: https://fasterpaymentscouncil.org/blog/14393/Guideline-02-Operational-Considerations-for-Instant-Payments-Send-Side-Primer

Feb 27, 2025 • 22min
27 Feb 2025 Yamini Sagar of Instarails on Cross Border Payments
Join FPC Executive Director Reed Luhtanen as he goes off the rails with Yamini Sagar CEO and Founder of Instarails. Reed and Yamini talk about the market for cross border payments, how Yamini is working to enhance the user experience in that space, and their respective go-to karaoke songs.

Feb 14, 2025 • 55min
14 Feb 2025 Deepak Gupta from Volante Technologies
Join Reed Luhtanen, Executive Director and CEO of the FPC as he goes off the rails with Deepak Gupta talking about all the amazing data in the FPC's Faster Payments Barometer, sponsored by Volante Technologies.

Jan 30, 2025 • 32min
30 Jan 2025 Dave Glaser and Skyler Nesheim of Dwolla on retail payments, pay by bank, and Severance
Join FPC Executive Director Reed Luhtanen as he goes off the rails with Dave Glaser and Skyler Nesheim of Dwolla. The trio talks about retail use cases for instant payments, the need for a dispute resolution framework, pay by bank, and Skyler's Iowa State Cyclones basketball team, which looks pretty darn good. FPC Spring Member Meeting is coming up! Register at fasterpaymentscouncil.org

Jan 16, 2025 • 23min
16 January 2025 Raman Kumar of U.S. Bank on faster payments consumer use cases
Join FPC Executive Director Reed Luhtanen as he goes off the rails with Raman Kumar of U.S. Bank to talk about all the consumer use cases Raman sees for faster payments.Also, if you're able to help with a donation for fire relief in California, here is a link to the California Fire Foundation: https://www.cafirefoundation.org/

Dec 19, 2024 • 29min
19 December 2024 Holiday Special featuring Colin Parsons of Nasdaq Verafin on faster payments fraud
Join Reed Luhtanen, executive director of the U.S. Faster Payments Council, as he goes off the rails with Colin Parsons of Nasdaq Verafin. Reed and Colin talk about fraud mitigation tactics, fraud trends in other markets, and their favorite Christmas songs.The FPC Fraud Work Group released a new paper on 12/19/24. You can find that here: https://fasterpaymentscouncil.org/Guides-Research

Dec 12, 2024 • 34min
12 Dec 2024 Stephany Kirkpatrick and Dean Nolan on business to business faster payments
Join FPC Executive Director and CEO Reed Luhtanen as he goes off the rails with Stephany Kirkpatrick of Orum and Dean Nolan of SRM. The trio discusses the potential for B2B instant payments, in particular in light of the recent announcement from the clearing house increasing the RTP limit to $10M.Previous episodes featuring Stephany and Dean:Stephany: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/12-oct-2023-stephany-kirkpatrick-of-orum-on-account/id1553535872?i=1000631043284Dean: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/27-oct-2022-moa-agrell-of-trustly-and-dean-nolan/id1553535872?i=1000584042369
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