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After growing technology businesses at every stage and across different industries, Daniel Marovitz joined Booking.com to introduce payments into its then-basic hotel-booking service. As senior vice president of fintech, Marovitz is enabling the company to achieve its vision to remove financial friction from travel. His cross-functional team focuses on the financial systems, payment solutions, and innovative financial products that strengthen Booking.com’s position as the platform of choice for customers worldwide to arrange lodging, transportation, and more. In this episode, he speaks with McKinsey partner and payments industry expert Uzayr Jeenah about what makes transactions especially complex in the travel industry and how streamlining payments eases customers’ pain points.
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The 2025 McKinsey Global Payments Report: Competing systems, contested outcomes (https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/financial-services/our-insights/global-payments-report)
Guardrails for growth: Building a resilient payments system (https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/financial-services/our-insights/guardrails-for-growth-building-a-resilient-payments-system)
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Read our Financial services blog: Banking & Securities Matters (https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/financial-services/our-insights/banking-matters)
Discover our latest insights with our LinkedIn community of 9,000+ financial services professionals: McKinsey Financial Services (https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/mckinseyfinancialservices/posts/?feedView=all)
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11 May 2026
Talking with Nigel Morris, cofounder of QED Investors
When Nigel Morris and his cofounder, Frank Rotman, started QED Investors in 2007 to support high-growth financial technology companies, the fintech world was just beginning to blossom. Today, QED is a leading venture capital firm specializing in early-stage and growth fintechs, backing more than 250 portfolio companies. The firm provides hands-on operational support, backing fintech start-ups in lending, payments, insurance, and banking. In this episode, Nigel speaks with McKinsey partner and payments industry expert about how the fintech landscape is shaping up in the face of AI and a younger demographic.
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The next age of fintech: AI, digital assets, and new paths to success (https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/financial-services/our-insights/the-next-age-of-fintech-ai-digital-assets-and-new-paths-to-success)
McKinsey Insights on Financial Services (https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/financial-services/our-insights)
Global Banking Annual Review (https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/financial-services/our-insights/global-banking-annual-review)
Stablecoins in payments: What the raw transaction numbers miss (https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/financial-services/our-insights/stablecoins-in-payments-what-the-raw-transaction-numbers-miss)
Financial services: M&A bounces back, with scale and capabilities at the center (https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/m-and-a/our-insights/financial-services-m-and-a-bounces-back-with-scale-and-capabilities-at-the-center)
Follow our banking and payments sector insights: Talking Banking Matters (https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/financial-services/our-insights/talking-banking-matters)
Read our Financial services blog: Banking & Securities Matters (https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/financial-services/our-insights/banking-matters)
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3 Mar 2026
Talking with Jeremy Fox-Geen, CFO of Circle
The blockchain-based fintech Circle is perhaps best known as the issuer of USDC stablecoins, but the company is much broader than that. In the words of its leaders, Circle seeks to build a foundational economic operating system for an AI-driven digital economy running on a blockchain-based payments infrastructure. In this episode Circle CFO Jeremy Fox-Geen speaks with McKinsey partner and payments industry expert Matt Higginson (https://www.mckinsey.com/our-people/matt-higginson) about the effect of the passage of 2025’s Genius Act on the future of stablecoin innovation, sources of future value, and how his background in philosophy informs his work and leadership style.
Related insights
The 2025 McKinsey Global Payments Report: Competing systems, contested outcomes (https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/financial-services/our-insights/global-payments-report)
Guardrails for growth: Building a resilient payments system (https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/financial-services/our-insights/guardrails-for-growth-building-a-resilient-payments-system)
The stable door opens: How tokenized cash enables next-gen payments (https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/financial-services/our-insights/the-stable-door-opens-how-tokenized-cash-enables-next-gen-payments)
Global Banking Annual Review 2025: Why precision, not heft, defines the future of banking (https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/financial-services/our-insights/global-banking-annual-review)
After the surge: Tien‑Tsin Huang on the future of payments (https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/financial-services/our-insights/after-the-surge-tien-tsin-huang-on-the-future-of-payments)
The future of the payments industry: How managing risk can drive growth (https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/risk-and-resilience/our-insights/the-future-of-the-payments-industry-how-managing-risk-can-drive-growth)
Follow our banking and payments sector insights: Talking Banking Matters (https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/financial-services/our-insights/talking-banking-matters)
Read our Financial services blog: Banking & Securities Matters (https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/financial-services/our-insights/banking-matters)
Discover our latest insights with our LinkedIn community of 9,000+ financial services professionals: McKinsey Financial Services (https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/mckinseyfinancialservices/posts/?feedView=all)
Find all of our Financial Services insights on McKinsey.com (https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/financial-services/how-we-help-clients)
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