Payments on Fire

Episode 116 – Now More than Ever – Glenbrook Payments Boot Camp® Digital Edition – Russ Jones, Glenbrook Partners

By George Peabody on March 16 2020

Sometimes events delay things. Other times, they hasten them. At Glenbrook, the corona virus has sped us along a path we’ve been traveling for some time. The path is digital delivery of the Glenbrook Payments Boot Camp®. In this Payments on Fire® episode, Russ Jones, partner in charge of Glenbrook’s education team, talks with George […]

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Episode 115 – Finding the Phantoms – Synthetic Identity and the Issuer – Naftali Harris, SentiLink

By George Peabody on March 12 2020

Fraudster innovation is a constant. As the defenders of payment transactions thwart one fraud vector, these innovators, playing offense, switch tactics. Today, the problem of knowing who you are, that you are who you say you are, in the digital domain demands stronger authentication techniques. Many of those rely on the attributes, the data, provided […]

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Episode 114 – How to Orchestrate the Merchant’s Payments Infrastructure – Justin Benson, Spreedly

By George Peabody on March 6 2020

On Payments on Fire® we’ve talked with gateway operators, processors, tokenization specialists, fraud management firms, and others – all providers who help payment acceptors handle their payments. The range of services and business value they deliver varies a lot. Some providers do everything. Others, like Spreedly, the subject of this Payments on Fire® podcast, focus […]

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Episode 113 – SMB Cash Management Meets Lending and Payments – Nan Siler, Kabbage

By George Peabody on February 26 2020

In this Payments on Fire® podcast, we examine the role of a payment service offered through a commerce solution targeted at the small and medium business (SMB) market. To do that, we talk with Nan Siler, Head of Payments Strategy and Operations, at Kabbage. The small and medium business market is important to both the […]

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Episode 112 – What the Mobile Ecosystem Brings to Risk Assessment – Rodger Desai, Payfone

By George Peabody on February 4 2020

As our lives shift online, our providers needs strong digital representations of each of us in order to make authentication and authorization decisions. Besides payment transactions, there are the diverse risks they must manage when, for example, we establish new credit relationships, add new payees to our online accounts, and move money in new ways. […]

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Episode 111 – Managing Ecommerce Fraud – Colin Sims, Forter

By George Peabody on January 3 2020

The U.S. has just come off a record setting holiday shopping season with e-commerce sales rising over 18%. While the numbers aren’t in yet, there’s no doubt the fraudsters also had a record year. There are so many ways to defraud consumers, merchants, and financial institutions. At Glenbrook, we are optimistic about our longer term […]

Faster Payments

Episode 110 – Building Out and On a National Faster Payments System

By George Peabody on December 9 2019

Deployment of “clean sheet of paper” payment systems is a once in a generation event. In over 50 countries, new account-to-account push payment systems are either in full scale operation, implementation, or fully committed planning stages. The U.S., for example, has the RTP Network in operation and, in a few years, the FedNow system will […]

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Episode 109 – Bitcoin SV, a Payments and Data-focused Path in Bitcoin Evolution – Jimmy Nguyen, Bitcoin Association

By George Peabody on November 27 2019

If you thought bitcoin was dead as a payments system, take a listen to George and Jimmy Nguyen, founding president of the Bitcoin Association, as they discuss Bitcoin SV, a new version of bitcoin that is a significant upgrade to the performance and capabilities of the original bitcoin protocol put into the world a decade […]

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Episode 108 – B2B Payments for the Massive Insurance Segment – Jeff Brown, VPay

By George Peabody on November 19 2019

Join Jeff Brown, president of VPay, a firm specializing in insurance claims payments, and George Peabody of Glenbrook Partners in this deep dive discussion of how the work of claims processing is done and how he approaches B2B payments, compliance, and the value-added services needed by the company’s customers. The B2B Domain We’re all familiar […]

Financial Inclusion

Episode 107 – The Financial Inclusion Impact of the Digital Wallet in Columbia – Hernando Rubio, CEO, Movii

By George Peabody on November 14 2019

Digital disruption and financial inclusion are focus areas throughout the developing world and the topics are white hot in Colombia. Listen in as Hernando Rubio, CEO of Moviired, speaks with Elizabeth McQuerry and George Peabody about Movii and payment / financial inclusion ecosystem in Colombia. Financial Inclusion in Colombia Although one of the first countries […]