Payments Fraud

Episode 158 – The High Pain of Push Payment Scams – PJ Rohall, Featurespace

By George Peabody on October 21 2021

We all know that there are risks in payments. And that when the controls we put in place to manage risk fail, fraud is the result. Fraud 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 aren’t […]

Financial Inclusion

Episode 157 – Experts Deep Dive on Financial Health and Inclusion

By George Peabody on October 7 2021

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 […]

Fintech

Episode 155 – Enabling Payments Operations and the Multiplayer Fintech Ecosystem – Dimitri Dadiomov and Rachel Pike, Modern Treasury

By George Peabody on August 13 2021

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 […]

Innovation

Episode 154 – Fighting Disruption in Merchant Services with Payments Tech – Kyle Pexton and Nick Starai, NMI

By George Peabody on July 8 2021

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. […]

ACH

Episode 153 – How to Make B2B Payments in a Few Lines of Code – Brady Harris and Adam Steenhard, Dwolla – Payments on Fire® Fintech Series

By George Peabody on July 2 2021

The fintech phenomenon and the ability of software developers and their enterprise customers to embed payments capability into business processes relies on multiple forms of access. First, there is the establishment of the business and contractural relationship necessary for access to a payment system. The rules of payments schemes, i.e. payment networks, say that you […]

Fast Payments

Episode 152 – The Fast Payments Imperative – Elizabeth McQuerry, Glenbrook and Craig Ramsey, ACI Worldwide

By George Peabody on June 21 2021

Fast payments are “must haves” in most economies. Their key attributes make them superior to other bank-led, open-loop systems. The speed of money has caught up with the speed of our communications. As Glenbrook’s Elizabeth McQuerry puts it, “this is a convergence of ideas around the world, a commonality, around this single approach in payments.” […]

B2B Payments

Episode 151 – The Fintech Network Built for SMB Payments – Marwan Forzley, Veem

By George Peabody on June 10 2021

We continue our fintech series on how fintechs deliver payments services that were formerly brought to market by banks or were just unavailable. Key hallmarks of these fintechs, and innovators in general, are: Market entry at a point the incumbents aren’t serving well Rapid expansion of service offerings to more deeply embed their services into […]

Fintech

Episode 150 – How a Fintech Speeds the Logistics Industry – Robin Gregg, RoadSync

By George Peabody on May 11 2021

In Episode 150, we continue our focus on fintech and its role in improving the payments process for specific verticals. We recently spoke with Robin Gandhi at TripActions about the hard focus it has on enterprise expense management for the Travel and Hospitality industries. It’s also a great example of multiplayer fintech. (Take a listen). […]

ACH

Episode 149 – Bringing Data to Secure A2A Transactions – Eli Polanco, Nivelo

By George Peabody on April 28 2021

The U.S. is moving faster than ever into seamless, account-to-account payments. That means enterprises and their payments providers are able to initiate a payment from one bank account and direct it to another. Think payroll. Think supply chain. The system attracting the most interest today is the ACH, a network built on batch processing and […]

Cryptocurrencies

Episode 148 – The Fintech Bringing Crypto and Diem to Payments Users – Ran Goldi, First

By George Peabody on April 21 2021

2021 will be remembered as the year that cryptocurrencies become a full time presence on Wall Street and a top agenda item at the world’s central banks. The potential for cryptocurrencies to digitally enable the financial lives of world’s 1.7 billion unbanked is gaining interest as well as increasing incumbent concern. Who needs an ATM […]