Payments on Fire

Episode 133 – Payments are (still) on Fire – Steve Sarracino, Founder, Activant Capital

By George Peabody on October 14 2020

You’d have to be aggressively disinterested in the payments industry not to be aware of its attraction to investors. The COVID-19 pandemic has done nothing to dampen the interest, if not outright enthusiasm, for the payments industry among investors of all stripes. Actually, the pandemic has lit a fire under key industry segments like the […]

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Episode 131 – Bridging the Payment Information Gap with Phixius – Peter Tapling

By George Peabody on August 25 2020

NACHA’s Phixius is a new service for the exchange of the information about a payment between the sender and receiver. Take a listen to Payments on Fire® host George Peabody as he discusses Phixius with NACHA Advisor Peter Tapling. He helps us understand Phixius, how it works and where it applies. It’s a compelling idea. […]

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Episode 130 – Privacy Regulation and the High Stakes of Compromise – Scott Giordano, Spirion

By George Peabody on August 11 2020

In this Payments on Fire® George and Scott Giordano, VP and Sr. Counsel, Privacy and Compliance at data privacy management firm Spirion, talk about what can and has gone wrong, the high cost of sanctions for failure, and how to reduce the risks attendant with the handling of personal data. Privacy. It’s a huge issue. […]

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Episode 129 – How COVID Changes the Shape of Fraud – Rafael Lourenco, ClearSale

By George Peabody on July 17 2020

In this episode, George speaks with Rafael Lourenco, EVP and Partner of fraud management provider ClearSale. Rafael returns to Payments on Fire® to address COVID’s impact including new online threats and the consumer behavior changes that challenge the customer checkout experience and fraud detection.   COVID-19 has contorted how merchants do business into new shapes. […]

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Episode 128 – How a NextGen Payments Company Builds on the Cloud – Eric Rosenthal, Rapyd

By George Peabody on June 18 2020

Take a listen to Rapyd‘s Eric Rosenthal and Glenbrook‘s George Peabody as they discuss Rapyd’s swift global expansion, its ability to quickly build new capabilities, and the firm’s cloud-based tech stack. It uses its “white label PayPal” model to payment-enable a wide range of companies and use cases. Programming Payments Has Been Hard Among the many […]

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Episode 126 – New Tech, New Models: ACH at the POS – Craig McDonald, Trustly

By George Peabody on June 3 2020

Take a listen to Craig McDonald, Chief Business Officer of Trustly and George as they discuss how Trustly makes its proposition possible. While Trustly is ramping up its U.S. presence, it does have timing on its side. In this pandemic-constrained age, merchants will be looking for lower cost payments and certainty. Trustly appears to have […]

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Episode 124 – Ground Truth: COVID-19’s Payments Impact – Glynn Frechette, PSCU

By George Peabody on May 19 2020

There’s no clearer indicator of COVID-19’s economic impact than payment metrics. In this Payments on Fire® episode, we speak with Bryan Derman, Glenbrook’s managing partner, and Glynn Frechette, SVP of PSCU’s Advisors Plus division, in a discussion of PSCU’s payment trends analysis. Glynn provides an exceptionally detailed view into the pain, and some real gains, […]

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Episode 123 – A Trip into the Nigerian Payments Ecosystem – Charles Ifedi, eBanqo

By George Peabody on May 12 2020

It is super instructive to hear about payments evolution. So, it’s time to take a trip. In this Payments on Fire® episode we speak with Charles Ifedi, one of the founders of Interswitch, one of the leading digital payments providers in Nigeria, and founder of customer engagement platform company eBanqo. We hear a lot – […]

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Episode 122 – Maximizing Authorization Rates and More – Jeanne DeWitt, Stripe

By George Peabody on May 5 2020

Payment authorization rates are a theme we return to regularly on Payments on Fire® because they matter so much to merchants, issuers, and the payment providers in between. If an issuer declines more transactions than its peers, the merchant and the issuer, in fact, leave money on the table. The merchant loses sales. The issuer […]

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Episode 121 – Acquiring the E-commerce Cross-Border Merchant – Moshe Selfin, Credorax

By George Peabody on April 28 2020

In Glenbrook’s Payments Boot Camp® and in our payments consulting work, we use our Domains of Payments framework to subdivide the major use cases and payment contexts into a half dozen categories or domains. The Remote Domain contains cross-border e-commerce, a particularly challenging use case where the buyer and seller are separated by distance and, in […]