402. Interviews: Making cross-border payments seamless with GoCardless and TransferWise

In today's episode, we bring you an interview with Taavet Hinrikus, co-founder and chairman at TransferWise and Hiroki Takeuchi, CEO at GoCardless. In November 2019 it was announced that GoCardless and TransferWise would be joining forces to enable better cross-border global payments. In this episode of Fintech Insider Interviews, Jason Bates caught up with the pair to discuss payments, partnerships and future plans.

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Special Guests: Hiroki Takeuchi and Taavet Hinrikus.

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