In Profile: Robin Anderson, Head of Product Management at Tribe Payments

Payments is an industry full of big claims about what comes next, but product teams usually deal with something more concrete: regulation, infrastructure, customer needs and the limits of what systems can actually support. Much of the work inside fintech sits in that gap, especially at companies building the technology behind issuing and acquiring. In this week’s In Profile, Robin Anderson, head of product management at Tribe Payments, discusses his career in fintech, the realities of building products in payments, and how he views the industry’s current fixation with technologies like AI and digital currencies. Robin Anderson, head of product management at Tribe Payments Tell us more about your company and its purpose Tribe Payments is a payments technology company that provides issuer and acquirer processing, alongside a platform that helps banks, fintechs and merchants build and scale payment products. At a practical level, what we’re really doing is taking away a lot of the friction that still exists in payments. Too much of the industry is held back by legacy infrastructure, which makes it harder to launch new products or adapt quickly. We’ve built our platform to give clients more control, so that they can move faster, test things properly, and evolve their propositions without being constrained by the underlying technology. Put simply, we want to make it easier for our clients to build payment experiences that actually match how people use money today. What are some of your recent achievements you’d like to highlight? Over the past 18…

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