Payments on Fire

Episode 72 – Alipay’s North American Acceptance Plan – Souheil Badran

By George Peabody on April 13 2018

The rise of Chinese mobile payment systems is the top global mobile payments story of the last few years. Alipay and WeChat Pay serve hundreds of millions of users with payments, loyalty programs, merchant coupons, and more. QR codes are used to initiate many of these interactions especially within the point of sale (POS) domain. […]

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Episode 71 – The Tech Bringing B2B Fintech to the Mid-tier Bank – Lisa Shields, FI.SPAN

By George Peabody on January 24 2018

Mid-market financial institutions have enormously strong relationships with their banking customers. But their size makes home grown IT difficult because it is simply too hard, and too costly, to meet all the B2B finance needs of their enterprise customers. The answer, of course, is deeper integration to third party software systems like SAP, Oracle, JDA […]

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Episode 70 – Real-time Cross-border Payments – Laurence Cooke of nanopay

By George Peabody on January 19 2018

“Digital cash” has been a dream of the internet age for, well, almost the entire internet age. That goal requires instant payment settlement. It’s more than just sending a message that a payment has happened; it means the money has actually moved. In this wide ranging conversation with Laurence Cooke, founder and CEO of nanopay, […]

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Episode 69 – PCI Standard Technical and Geographic Evolution – Troy Leach

By George Peabody on December 28 2017

Episode 69 is all about how the PCI Security Standards Council is responding to changes in security technology and how it is expanding its role and technology coverage across important new geographies. If payment security is on your screen, join Glenbrook’s George Peabody, partner and host of Payments on Fire, and Troy Leach, CTO for […]

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Episode 68 – Digital Identity, a Mobile App, and a Blockchain – SecureKey

By George Peabody on December 20 2017

Digital identity is a crisp sounding term that belies a complex layer of concepts. There is identity proofing, identify verification, identity assurance. Each addresses one element of the many questions raised by digital identity. How does a bank really know the digital presence at its banking portal is associated with the accountholder? How can you, […]

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Episode 67 – The Conversational User Interface – Glenbrook’s Russ Jones

By George Peabody on December 11 2017

Voice is the natural user interface and the robots are coming to take it on. Enabled by high volume consumer devices like Amazon Echo, Google Home, Apple’s Siri, and powered by artificial intelligence engines like Amazon’s Alexa, Google Assistant, and Apple’s Siri, we are headed toward making voice-enabled commerce and payments a common experience. Russ […]

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Episode 66 – Real Time Payments Comes to the U.S. – Steve Ledford of TCH

By George Peabody on November 30 2017

Payments innovation runs at multiple speeds. Changes in how a payment is initiated happen almost every day. Payments infrastructure change is a lot slower. But it’s happening. Nudged forward by the Federal Reserve’s Faster Payments Task Force, we are seeing the launch of the first entirely new payments system in decades. Called Real Time Payments […]

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Episode 65 – Gates Foundation and Mojaloop – Kosta Peric

By George Peabody on October 20 2017

Once upon a time, text messaging systems didn’t interoperate. But when they did, usage skyrocketed. Many of the world’s mobile money payment systems still operate within that old “walled garden” model, limiting the ability of citizens in areas like Southern Africa to send money home to family, pay utility bills, and, most important, enjoy the […]

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Episode 64 – B2B Payments Innovation – Modulr

By George Peabody on October 19 2017

The intersection of new tech, faster payments capabilities, and forward looking regulation is enabling significant innovation in B2B, and consumer, payment services in the UK and EU. Join Glenbrook’s George Peabody and Myles Stephenson, CEO of business payments platform provider Modulr, as they discuss how modern tech and updated rules have created opportunities for fintech service […]

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Episode 63 – Payments Come to the Browser – W3C’s Ian Jacobs

By George Peabody on September 28 2017

Payments standards typically operate deep within a payment system, invisible to most of us. But before long a new standard for web browsers will touch us all. Known as the Payment Request API, it is one of the newer projects of the Word Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Supported by browser builders Mozilla, Apple, Google, Microsoft, […]