In this week’s Leaders in Payments Podcast, I speak with The Clearing House SVP of Sales and Relationship Management Elena Whisler about financial inclusion and why there are still so many unbanked and underbanked Americans.

 A mother of two, marathon runner of many and proud Canadian native, Elena is passionate about payments inclusion as she talks about the various initiatives The Clearing House is involved in to proactively service our underserved communities.

 For those of you that may not know, The Clearing House is a banking association and payments company owned by 23 of the largest financial institutions in the United States. They are the nation’s most experienced payments company, with a payment network that clears and settles more than $2 trillion dollars each day.