"Mike's career at the heart of the UK's payments infrastructure and his wide perspective on the evolution of the space are invaluable to those of us developing strategies in the field." Dave Birch
Brad Pitt, Bitcoin & Banter
Brad Pitt, Bitcoin & Banter🎙️ Welcome to the second episode of Sixty Seconds!⏱️ Inspired by the legendary Just a Minute on BBC Radio 4, Sixty Seconds is the fast-talking, side-splitting comedy game show where payments meet pure chaos and laughter. The rules? Simple — speak on a payments topic for 60 seconds without hesitation, repetition… or fraud (okay, “deviation,” but we like our fintech spin 😏). Hosted by Mike Chambers, channeling his inner Nicholas Parsons with a fintech flair, each show dives into lively, topical payments themes — from Faster Payments to frictionless checkout, and everything in between. 🎧 In this episode: We welcome back returning champion Zhenya Winter, joined by Laura McCracken and Teresa Connors for another round of payment-themed hilarity. Plus — you’ll finally find out what Laura said to Brad Pitt when he called her about some Bitcoin. 👀💸 Expect laughs, insights, and a dash of payment banter you won’t find anywhere else. |
Payments:Unpacked
"Mike's career at the heart of the UK's payments infrastructure and his wide perspective on the evolution of the space are invaluable to those of us developing strategies in the field." Dave Birch
Mike Chambers is joined by Richard Ransom, Head of Solution Consulting for Corporates at Bottom Line, for a wide-ranging conversation covering the most important topics in UK payments right now. Richard and Mike talk about….. Faster Payments turning 18 — the bold decision to go real-time in 2008, the missed opportunity in B2B payments, and where it goes next. Then Direct Debit — still processing billions of transactions after half a century, but what needs to change around the first payment...
Beta: We are trialing Payments:Unpacked's Substack newsletter in Kit.If you have multiple subscriptions you may receive more than one email (apologies) - please let us know what you think about this Kit version of Payments:Unpacked. In this newsletter we explore UK tokenisaton and stablecoin regulation with a guest blog from John Bertrand - huge thanks to John for contributing this guest blog. Be sure to subscribe to visit John on LinkedIn: John Bertrand UK tokenisation and stablecoin...
Beta: We are trialing Payments:Unpacked's Substack newsletter in Kit.If you have multiple subscriptions you may receive more than one email (apologies) - please let us know what you think about this Kit version of Payments:Unpacked. 18 Candles, 5 Billion Transactions. Faster Payments, We Salute You A bold step into the unknown The UK’s Faster Payments system was the world’s first modern real-time interbank payments system. It went live on 27 May 2008. Real-time account-to-account payments are...