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Joey Pizzolato is a reporter at American Banker, covering all things payments, including stablecoins, agentic AI, buy now, pay later and earned wage access. He is based in New York.

Prior to reporting on payments, Joey spent nearly six years covering auto finance as the editor of Auto Finance News, and has also covered the mortgage and housing industry, bank technology and marketing, state and federal regulation, fraud and the asset-backed securities market. 

His work has earned him two Azbee Awards: One for investigative journalism examining the ease at which bad actors can obtain fraudulent employment verification needed to finance automobiles on social networks such as Facebook and Instagram; and one for enterprise news reporting that examined the lasting effects of inflation and COVID-19 pandemic on the subprime auto finance industry. In 2023, he was named a Goldschmidt FRED Fellow by the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing. 

Joey holds a Master of Fine Arts from the Naslund-Mann Graduate School of Writing at Spalding University and a Bachelor of Arts degree from DePaul University. 

Email Joey at joey.pizzolato@americanbanker.com. Reach him on Signal at @joeypizzolato.25

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Kim Silva has more than 25 years of combined accounting and teaching experience. In addition to her undergraduate degree in accounting, she has a MS in financial crime and compliance management, and is a doctoral candidate (ABD) in management. She recently founded Essential Business Education, and currently is a visiting assistant professor of practice in accounting at Babson College in Wellesley, Massachusetts. 

Reach her at hello@essentialbusinessedu.com or via LinkedIn.