On this episode of Payments on Fire®, George Peabody and Yvette Bohanan welcome back Steve Ledford from The Clearing House to share the innovations about Real Time Payments (RTP) on this 5th Annual RTP Network Update. Steve speaks about the updates on RTP payments rules, the billing system, what is being done to prevent authorized […]
Episode 163 – Payments Infrastructure and Foreign Policy
In this timely episode of Payments on Fire®, Yvette Bohanan has gathered teammates at Glenbrook (Elizabeth McQuerry, Erin McCune, Cici Northup, and Joanna Wisniecka) to discuss the payment infrastructure supporting the foreign policy actions being taken as a result of the situation in Ukraine. In the past week, the UK, EU, and Switzerland announce sanctions […]
Episode 162 – Stablecoins, Cross-border Payments & Interoperability – Ran Goldi, First Digital Assets Group
In this episode of Payments on Fire®, George Peabody will have back on the show two people that our listeners know well. Yvette Bohanan from Glenbrook Partners’ Education Team will co-host this episode, the second episode from 2022. Keeping the listeners updated about the digital currency systems, Yvette and Bethany May (new Senior associates) are […]
Episode 161 – AI-ML and Bias – Ismini Psychoula, OneSpan
2022 just started and we got so much to see and learn this year. But, we are not alone in this learning journey. Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence are here to stay, so we also should learn why and how it works for the payments industry. Starting this season of Payments on Fire®, we will […]
Episode 160 – Innovation in Payments Workshop – Russ Jones, Glenbrook Partners
The new year is coming with lots of innovations for the payment industry. Some of them will impact some companies and/or all the industry, changing how things work on the marketplace. George welcomes back Russ Jones to Payment on Fire and they will uncover the lens of the game-changing innovations, including talking about the upcoming […]
Episode 159 – The Top KPI of International E-Commerce – Ralph Dangelmaier, CEO, BlueSnap
If you’re an e-commerce merchant selling across border, you’ve got to answer a few questions: What methods of payment should you support in each country you sell in? Not every country is as infatuated with cards as is the U.S. And even if customers in those countries are using cards, how do you optimize your […]
Episode 158 – The High Pain of Push Payment Scams – PJ Rohall, Featurespace
We all know that there are risks in payments. When the controls we put in place to manage risk fail, fraud is the result. Fraud, or fraud prevention, is now an industry using many of the same tools to defeat our controls that we use to defend our payments systems. A reality is that fraudsters […]
Episode 157 – Experts Deep Dive on Financial Health and Inclusion
As part of Glenbrook’s ongoing efforts to highlight new approaches to financial inclusion in the US, Erin McCune and Justin Pituch recently spoke with a panel of expert practitioners in the financial health space: Kimberley Gartner, Arjan Schutte, and Ryan Falvey. Topics discussed include: History of the financial health space Current trends in financial health […]
Episode 155 – Enabling Payments Operations and the Multiplayer Fintech Ecosystem – Dimitri Dadiomov and Rachel Pike, Modern Treasury
We continue our series on fintechs and how they improve payments and data handling flows. One of the major trends that has emerged in the last five years is the “as-a-service” phenomenon. Payments as a service companies – true payment platforms for those offering payment capability as well as those needing to make and accept […]
Episode 154 – Fighting Disruption in Merchant Services with Payments Tech – Kyle Pexton and Nick Starai, NMI
If you want to understand the incumbent merchant services business, the industry that puts payments capabilities into the hands of merchants, take a listen to this Payments on Fire® episode. It focuses on the realities facing the major stakeholders in that portion of the payments industry through a discussion with NMI, a payments technology provider. […]