About This Episode
In this episode of the Leaders in Payments and Fintech podcast, host Davide sits down with Daniel Kalish, co-founder and CEO of Nilus and former PayPal veteran, to explore how AI is reshaping corporate treasury management. Daniel shares why he founded Nilus after seeing first hand how finance teams were struggling to manage cash across complex, global operations, and how agentic AI is finally replacing the Excel files that have long driven treasury decisions.
With CFO expectations shifting fast and stablecoins beginning to enter the corporate treasury conversation, Daniel makes the case that the window to modernise is now, and that the companies who move early will have a significant edge. He also offers candid advice for fintech founders on what it truly means to build AI-native, both in product and in culture.
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Episode Links
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-kalish-74194768
Website: https://www.nilus.com
Guest Bio
Daniel Kalish is the Co-Founder and CEO of Nilus, the first Agentic AI platform designed for corporate treasury teams. A veteran of PayPal, Daniel witnessed how even the largest enterprises were paralyzed by "stale spreadsheets" and a "latency tax" on their cash. He founded Nilus to replace manual intuition with Assurance-GradeAI, moving finance from a system of record to a System of Action.
Before Nilus, Daniel led market development for PayPal across multiple global regions. His background also includes Venture Capital law, giving him a unique perspective on the intersection of high-stakes security and financial complexity. Today, he is leading the charge toward the "Self-Driving Balance Sheet," helping global organizations automate 24/7 liquidity, forecasting, and risk management.
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Davide is a Manager based in EDC’s San Francisco office. He has more than 4 years of strategy consulting experience within payments and financial service clients across the North American, Asian, European, and African markets. Davide’s expertise spans across multiple EDC practices with a focus on the Retailer, Acquiring, Issuing, M&A, and Advanced Payment practices. Davide graduated with an MEng degree in Biomedical Engineering from Imperial College London. Outside of work Davide is likes to plan exotic travels and enjoys several sports and activities, including football (soccer), skiing, running, and hiking.
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