Stephane Dehaies
Podcast appearances as guest
Episode 19 - Stephane Dehaies
In this episode, I sit down with Stephane Dehaies, CEO of Spendesk Financial Services.
On the podcast
Stéphane is CEO of Spendesk Financial Services, the payments arm of Spendesk, and joined about 18 months earlier after seven years as a partner at KPMG.
Spendesk is a spend management and procurement platform for SMB and mid-market companies, a unicorn with hubs in Paris, London, Berlin and Spain.
Spendesk Financial Services is a regulated payment institution in Europe.
Spendesk has processed more than 30 billion in cumulative spend for its customers.
Spendesk serves more than 3,000 companies in over 35 countries, representing more than 200,000 users.
Spendesk runs three platforms: its own in Europe, a partner platform in the UK, and a US partnership with Marqeta for European customers with US operations.
Spendesk partners with Wise Platform to offer international payments to about 30 countries.
Spendesk is working with Dust to embed AI in every department.
Spendesk took payments in-house for customer experience, platform robustness and scalability, innovation, and access to global partners.
Payments are a growth and profitability lever for non-financial companies too.