Interview with Evan Albert

Executive Interview: Evan Albert on the Infrastructure and Economics of High-Risk Payment Processing

Feb 07, 2026

The architecture of American commerce has historically excluded entire categories of legitimate businesses from financial infrastructure—not due to actual fraud or insolvency, but due to categorical risk aversion embedded in traditional underwriting models. CBD retailers with compliant operations, subscription services with sustainable customer bases, telemedicine providers serving genuine medical needs, and dozens of other verticals face systematic payment processing rejection despite operating lawful, viable...