Wrestling Payments
Wrestling Payments is a podcast for professionals working at banks, credit unions, and FinTechs who are responsible for managing ACH and payment operations. In each episode, members of NEACH guide conversations to help professionals examine the challenges of modernizing payment operations. Ultimately, the stories uncovered through guest interviews and solo episodes will highlight industry trends and identify how organizations can build their payment operations for the future.
Episodes
78 episodes
1857 Called. It Wants Its Fraud Back
EPISODE SUMMARYJoe Casali uses this solo episode to argue that the proposed Stop Payments Fraud Act of 2026 is a useful but limited step against check fraud. He compares today’s check fraud problem to the 1800s, when thousands of ban...
Governance Before Technology: A Framework for Stablecoins and Tokenized Deposits with Guest David Dwumah
Episode Summary In this episode of Wrestling Payments, host Joe Casali welcomes David Dwumah, Founder & CEO of OurFiin and faculty member at the WPI Business School, for a conversation about one of the most impor...
True Crime Fighters: Why Your Ops Team Is on the Front Line
Nanci McKenzie, MLS, JM, AAP, APRP, CAMS, payments expert in Capital One’s commercial bank treasury management group, joins Joe ahead of her session at NEACH’s End User Payments Fraud Symposium. First party fraud is the one where your account h...
One Employee, Five Branches: The Wire Room Reality
One Employee, Five Branches: The Wire Room RealitySHORT SUMMARYNPG surveyed roughly 45 banks about how they actually run wires and found almost no consensus. Sean Carter walks through the numbers, including the 32 pe...
Fighting Back Against Credit Push Fraud: New ACH Rules for Originators
Jordan Bennett, AAP, APRP (Senior Director, ACH Network Risk Management at Nacha) joins Joe ahead of NEACH's End User Fraud Symposium to break down the new ACH rules targeting social engineering fraud — and for the first time, they put real obl...
Unlocking Data and Decision Making in Banking: A Conversation on AI-Driven Insights
How can community banks compete with the largest financial institutions in an AI-driven world?In this episode of Wrestling Payments, host Joe Casali sits down with Sean Carter, President & CEO of NEACH, and Toli Amare, co-founder of...
The Fintech Regulation Cage Match
Understanding the Future of Fintech Regulation: The Cage Match BeginsIn this episode of Wrestling Payments, Joe Casali dives into the recent executive order that aims to overhaul fintech regulation. As the landscape shifts, understanding how re...
FedNow Goes Global: How Proposed Reg J Changes Could Enable Cross-Border Instant Payments
Episode DescriptionThe Federal Reserve just proposed changes to Regulation J that would allow FedNow participants to designate intermediary banks — opening the door for cross-border payments over FedNow for the first time....
Conversations from The Clearing House Conference
Episode SummaryIn this episode of Wrestling Payments, host Joe Casali sits down with Phil Robin, SVP of Strategy at The Clearing House. They explore how financial institutions are approaching the challenges of modernizing payment ope...
Washington Update
Episode SummaryWrestling Payments kicks off 2026 with a trip to the Hill. Host Joe Casali sits down with William Sullivan, Associate Managing Director of Government and Industry Relations at Nacha, for a wide-ranging Washington up...
The OCC Charter Loophole: An Illegal Hold on Community Banking?
Episode SummaryWrestling Payments kicks off 2026 with a critical conversation. Host Joe Casali is joined by Brian Laverdure and Mickey Marshall from the Independent Community Bankers of America (ICBA) to unpack the growing regulat...
Building a Stablecoin Strategy: Steve Wasserman and Larry Pruss Weigh In
Episode Summary In this episode of Wrestling Payments, Joe Casali sits down with Steve Wasserman of Vments and Larry Pruss of Strategic Resource Management for an urgent conversation about the seismic shifts happening in payments right n...
Locked In or Moving Forward: Rethinking Core Renewals
EPISODE SUMMARYIn this episode of Wrestling Payments, host Joe Casali sits down with Rich Carty from Remedy to dig into the realities of core technology contracts in banking and payments. Rich shares how financial institutions wei...
Jordan Thaeler on Merchant Choice and the True Cost of Payments
EPISODE SUMMARYIn this episode of Wrestling Payments, host Joe Casali sits down with Jordan Thaeler to explore how embedded payments lock merchants into costly, inflexible systems. Jordan explains why many software providers bundl...
Stablecoins vs. SWIFT: The Revolution in Cross-Border Payments
While domestic payments are faster than ever, international transactions remain stuck in the past. In this episode, Monex Chief Economist John Min explains why cross-border payments are often slow, costly, and unpredictable.GUEST-...
How AI Is Changing Fraud Detection in Modern Payments
AI is changing the world as we know it. I'm please to present a great conversation i had with Brian Keef of Nice Actimize who are a leader in many things, but AI in Banking. In this Wrestling Payments episode, host Joe Casali interviews Brian K...
Compliance v Sales: Wrestling with Pay by Bank Growth
EPISODE SUMMARYIn this episode of Wrestling Payments, host Joe Casali sits down with Sarah Stapp, Chief Commercial Officer, and Geoff Scott, Head of Compliance, at Aeropay. Together, they dive into the ongoing push and pull between s...
The Send Side of Instant Payments: How RTP® is Transforming Business
EPISODE SUMMARYIn this episode of Wrestling Payments, Jim Colassano, Senior Vice President at The Clearing House, joins host Joe Casali to discuss the transformative impact of the Real-Time Payments (RTP) network. He expla...
Breaking the Silo Surface: Uncovering the People-Powered Currents of FinTech Strategy
Episode Summary Mid-market banks and credit unions are trapped between agile FinTechs and mega banks, held back by internal silos. On Wrestling Payments, host Elyssa Morgan explores how these institutions can break barriers and leverage ...
Revenue in the Water: Turning FinTech Strategy into Profit
Episode SummaryFinancial institutions struggle to identify and monetize revenue opportunities through FinTech partnerships while justifying upfront costs to leadership. Wrestling Payments host Elyssa Morgan speaks with Scott Goldt...
Into the Depths: Busting the Myths About FinTech “Tech” Readiness
Episode SummaryMany financial institutions feel stuck, believing technology myths hold them back from innovation. In this Wrestling Payments episode, host Elyssa Morgan talks with Brian Anderson, VP of Banking Transformation at Fi...
FinTech Waves Ahead: Navigating Growth with Risk in Mind
Episode SummaryFinancial institutions face a critical challenge: modernizing payment operations through FinTech partnerships without compromising compliance. On Wrestling Payments, host Elyssa Morgan explores practical strategies ...
FinTech in Open Water – Seize the Opportunity While Maintaining Control
EPISODE SUMMARYIn this episode of Wrestling Payments, Host Elyssa Morgan talks with Dr. Angela Murphy from Pidgin about the shift from competition to collaboration between financial institutions and fintechs. They explore ...
Introducing Mascoma Technologies - From Legacy Cores to Agile Banking Platforms
Episode Summary In this episode of Wrestling Payments, Joe Casali from NEACH sits down with Raphael Reznek and Ingrid Hebert from Mascoma Bank and Mascoma Technologies to explore an incredible success story: how a community bank built it...
Behind the Network: Treasury Software's Role in Payment Processing
EPISODE SUMMARYIn this episode of Wrestling Payments, host Joe Casali from NEACH speaks with Glenn Fromer of Treasury Software about solving the critical "last mile" disconnect between small businesses and the ACH network....