Leaders In Payments and FinTech - The EDC Podcast S04 E03: Nilus - Rethinking Cash Management with AI – Daniel Kalish, Nilus
Davide Villa, Manager at EDC, sits down with Daniel Kalish, CEO and Co-Founder at Nilus, to discuss the evolution of treasury management, and the role that AI can play in innovating in the space.
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 firsthand how finance teams were struggling to manage cash across complex, global operations — and how agentic AI is finally replacing the side 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.
In this episode:
- How Nilus goes beyond data visibility to enable real treasury decision-making
- Why legacy TMS systems fall short and Excel still dominates forecasting
- Where AI agents are creating value: cash positioning, FX hedging, forecasting, and payments
- Why real-time bank data matters less to treasury than you might think
- How stablecoins are starting to change internal money movement between entities
- Why CFOs now expect AI-native platforms — and how quickly that shift happened
- What it takes to build successfully in an AI-native environment
Resources:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-kalish-74194768
Website: https://www.nilus.com