Payments Unfiltered

Join Theo Spyrides, Head of Product at Primer, for your much-needed dose of honest payments chat. In each episode, Theo will dive into the payments ecosystem, exploring the personal journeys of those at the coalface, attempting to answer the big questions that’ll define where the ecosystem is heading, and, of course, have some fun along the way.

Payments Unfiltered is a business podcast hosted by Primer.io, with 16 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

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  Payments Unfiltered

  Intelligent payments can't be built on fragmented data | Episode 15 with Primer's CEO Gabriel Le Roux

  Jul 23, 202645 min

  Primer announced a $100 million Series C in May 2026. And this conversation goes far beyond the funding. In this episode of Payments Unfiltered , Theo Spyrides sits down with our co-founder and CEO Gabriel Le Roux to discuss where payments are heading next, why AI in payments is more about context than prompts, and what payments intelligence actually looks like in practice for merchants. They cover: What’s next for Primer after the $100M raise Why payments have remained a "black box" for merchants How we're helping merchants simplify reconciliation and treasury Why AI in payments is really about context and what that means How intelligence affects every payment decision Find more episodes on our channel, or learn more at primer.io.

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  Payments Unfiltered

  PART 2: What it really takes to build and run a PSP at global scale | Episode 013 with James Fry at Worldpay

  Apr 30, 202635 minS0

  <p>This is Part 2 of our conversation with James Fry, Head of Enterprise Product at Worldpay (now part of Global Payments).</p><p>Most people know what a PSP does. Far fewer know what it actually takes to build and run one. In this episode of Payments Unfiltered, Theo Spyrides, Head of Product at Primer, and James pull back the curtain.</p><p>They discuss:</p><p>➡️ What a PSP really is, and how far it's evolved from a simple gateway</p><p>➡️ Why keeping up with payment network changes consumes more engineering capacity than most people expect</p><p>➡️ Why no singl...

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  Payments Unfiltered

  PART 1: From commodity to competitive advantage: how enterprise merchants are rethinking payments | Episode 012 with James Fry at Worldpay

  Mar 19, 202636 minS0

  <p>In this episode of Payments Unfiltered, Theo Spyrides, Head of Product at Primer, sits down with James Fry, Head of Enterprise Product at Worldpay (now part of Global Payments), to explore how merchants have evolved their approach to payments, and what that means for the payment providers supporting them.</p><p>They discuss:</p><p>The shift away from treating payments as a commodity</p><p>Why enterprise merchants are now hiring dedicated payments teams</p><p>How optimization has become a strategic lever rather than a back-office concern. </p><p>James also shares his perspective on two of t...

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  The shifts reshaping enterprise payments with Citi’s Will Artingstall

  Feb 19, 202640 minS1

  <p>In this episode of Payments Unfiltered, Theo Spyrides, Head of Product at Primer, is joined by Will Artingstall, Global Head of Digital Asset Payments and ecommerce Services at Citi.<br />Will shares how Citi is working more closely with enterprise merchants as payment flows become more complex and new rails begin to emerge. They discuss how large organizations are approaching these changes in practice, and what it means for how payments are designed and managed.<br />They discuss:</p>The optimization levers available to merchants when working more closely with acquiring and issuing banksWhy stablecoins and tokenized deposits are...

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  How AI shoppers are forcing merchants to rethink fraud with Jeff Otto | Episode 010

  Jan 21, 202635 minS1

  <p>In this episode of Payments Unfiltered, Theo Spyrides, Head of Product at Primer, sits down with Jeff Otto, CMO at Riskified, to explore what happens when software starts acting on behalf of customers and what that means for risk, fraud, and merchant exposure.</p><p>They discuss how agentic commerce changes who initiates a transaction, how trust is established, and why introducing an agent into the flow raises new questions around risk ownership and liability.  You’ll also hear about the strategic choices merchants face as this space evolves and why waiting on the sidelines isn’t a realistic optio...

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