Visa Spotlights

About Visa Spotlights

Welcome to Visa Spotlights, a podcast by Visa that provides a deep dive into the ever-evolving world of payments. This series is designed to provide you with Visa’s expert perspectives on the monumental shifts happening in the payments industry today – and with a view as to what’s emerging on the horizon.

Publisher

Visa CEMEA

Category

technology

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

30 Jan 2024

Latest episode

22 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

29 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   22 Sept 2026

   Always-On Money: The Stablecoin Shift

   In this episode of Visa Spotlights, we explore how stablecoins are moving from speculation to real-world utility—and what this means for the future of payments across CEMEA. Host Dan Baxter, Vice President of Corporate Communications, CEMEA at Visa, sits down with Shahebaz Khan, SVP Commercial and Money Movement Solutions, CEMEA, Visa. Together, they discuss how stablecoins can enable faster, always-on and programmable money movement, from cross-border remittances and business liquidity to pa...

2. 

   30 Jul 2026

   From Local Edge to Global Reach: Scaling Payments with Checkout.com

   In this episode, we explore how performance, scale, and partnership are redefining global payments in an era of rapid digital acceleration. Host Dan Baxter, Vice President of Corporate Communications for Central and Eastern Europe, Middle East & Africa (CEMEA) at Visa, sits down with Matthieu Barral, Global Head of Partnerships at Checkout.com, during the Visa Payments Forum in Paris. Together, they unpack Checkout.com’s growth journey to processing over $300 billion in annual payment vo...

3. 

   11 Jun 2026

   In Al-Driven Commerce,Trust Is the Real Checkout Currency

   In this episode, we explore how fraud and cyber risk are evolving across the payments ecosystem as commerce becomes more digital, automated, and AI‑enabled. Threat actors are adapting in parallel, using automation, social engineering, deepfakes, and ransomware to move faster and at greater scale. Host Dan Baxter, Vice President of Corporate Communications for Central and Eastern Europe, Middle East & Africa (CEMEA), sits down with Charles Lobo, Senior Vice President and Regional Risk Offi...

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

3.5 / 5

2 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

1 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 36 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

58

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

32

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Guest appearances

Books guests

Based on episode analysis; this does not confirm that the show is currently accepting guests.

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