Payments on Fire

Episode 164 – 5th Annual RTP Network Update – Steve Ledford, The Clearing House

By George Peabody on March 18 2022

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 […]

Banking Industry

Episode 163 – Payments Infrastructure and Foreign Policy

By George Peabody on March 3 2022

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 […]

Cryptocurrencies

Episode 162 – Stablecoins, Cross-border Payments & Interoperability – Ran Goldi, First Digital Assets Group

By George Peabody on January 28 2022

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 […]

Glenbrook

Episode 161 – AI-ML and Bias – Ismini Psychoula, OneSpan

By George Peabody on January 13 2022

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 […]

Glenbrook

Episode 160 – Innovation in Payments Workshop – Russ Jones, Glenbrook Partners

By George Peabody on December 9 2021

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 […]

Ecommerce Payments

Episode 159 – The Top KPI of International E-Commerce – Ralph Dangelmaier, CEO, BlueSnap

By George Peabody on November 3 2021

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 […]

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. 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 […]

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. […]