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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 […]

Glenbrook

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, […]

Elizabeth McQuerry

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 – […]

Card Payments

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 […]

Ecommerce Payments

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 […]

Elizabeth McQuerry

Episode 120 – Deep Dive into Real-time Payments in Developing Markets – Elizabeth McQuerry, Glenbrook Partners

By George Peabody on April 21 2020

In this special episode of Payments on Fire®, Glenbrook partner Elizabeth McQuerry, partner in charge of Glenbrook’s Global payments consulting practice, leads a conversation on the development and adoption of realtime payments in developing markets. Joining Elizabeth are Miller Abel, Deputy Director, Principal Technologist at Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Gene Neyer, Executive Advisor […]

George Peabody

Episode 119 – The API to Streamline and Secure Account Access – Don Cardinal, GM, Financial Data Exchange

By George Peabody on April 14 2020

Take a listen to Don Cardinal, GM of the Financial Data Exchange and Glenbrook’s George Peabody as they discuss the FDX API and its importance to the fintech and financial services community. It’s important to end users. And it’s a great example of how comprehensive standards can be developed swiftly. The “supermarket” days of financial […]

Payments on Fire

Episode 118 – Third Annual RTP Network Update – TCH’s Steve Ledford

By George Peabody on March 31 2020

Welcome to Payments on Fire® and to our third, now annual, discussion with Steve Ledford, SVP Products and Strategy at The Clearing House, and the leader of his company’s Real Time Payment Network initiative. As in prior conversations, Steve and George discuss the growth of the RTP Network both in terms of transactions and dollar […]

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Episode 117 – Stop Them at the Front Door Before Giving That Loan – Rivka Gewirtz Little, Socure

By George Peabody on March 24 2020

Be Safe. Be Well. Help Out. This is our era’s unprecedented event. I hope you’re staying safe, your family is all well, and you’ve got what you need for what looks to be a pretty long time. On the upside, I’ve seen and experienced people helping one another like never before. That gives me confidence […]