Bitesize Payments

Payments are one of things that we do every day - they just happen, really they are just like magic!!!! But we don't wake up and think today I want to make a payment - we just want to pay a bill or buy a coffee but payments make them happen.

Paradoxically we both know more about them than we think and yet at the same time very little about what they are and how they work.

I have spent a lot of time in our industry doing education and training sessions on Payments and I kinda thought it would be useful to record it. So, here we go.... In Bitesize Payments I try and explain the History of Payments, how they work and who does what. Also who get paid for what....that might surprise you!

Anyway hopefully in less than 20 mins, week after week you can become a payment experts....... or at the very least someone who can ask the tough questions :-)

Please let me have your feedback, input or question at bitesizepayments@gmail.com

Thanks for listening.......

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Bitesize Payments

Introducing Bitesize Payment

June 18, 2023 • paul • Season 1 • Episode 1

Hi and welcome to Bite Size Payments. My name is Paul Thomalla and literally years I've been saying I'd like to record a series of podcast about payments. Well guess what? I finally gone and done it.

So, thank you for listening to my trailer for my Podcast Bitesize payments. I hope this trailer whets your appetite.

Payments are everyday activity, but few of us know or frankly even care how they work. We just take them for granted. Few wake up in the morning and say, you know what, I want to make a payment. More likely that to say I want to buy a coffee or buy lunch. In that sense, payments are like magic. They just happen. Until, of course, they don't, and that's a whole other story.

But how do they work? What is their history and who are the stakeholders and who gets paid for what. In bitesize payments I will guide you through the history of payments from using shells as money to the Knights Templar, a 17th century London Tavern and the emergence of crypto currencies.

If you'd like to contact me, please do so via. Bitesizepayments@gmail.com.

My first episode of Bitesize Payments is going to be on the early history of payments bartering, shells, coins and the creation of money.

To mis quote a line from the life of Brian, what did the Mesopotamians ever do for us? Well, it turns out that’s where it started some 8000 years ago.

One last thought. What is a payment? What's money for that matter? What central bank money? What's commercial bank money? Oh man, this is going to confusing.

Let me explain and all will become clear,

Please sign up and I hope you enjoy Bitesize Payments

Payments Industry Insights

History of Payments

Payment System Explained

Corporate Payments Strategy

Payment Regulations Impact

ISO20022 Standard

Digital Payments Evolution

CBDC Advancements

Cryptocurrency in Payments

Financial Technology Education