B2B Payments

Episode 60 – Where and Why Interchange Optimization Works – CardConnect

By George Peabody on August 24 2017

Interchange is fundamental to open loop card system economics and a mystery to many, especially to merchants who must pay it but don’t perceive any benefit from it. It’s a non-optional component of what the merchant pays to accept cards. It’s one element of the merchant discount fee. Despite the stubborn fact of it, there […]

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Episode 59 – B2B Payments are Hot – Glenbrook’s Erin McCune

By George Peabody on August 11 2017

B2B payments are huge. Taken together, these supply chain payments exceed the gross domestic product. But supply chain payments remain an imperfect art. While consumers pay for one purchase at a time, a B2B payment may cover multiple invoices, each with different commercial terms. Given the amount of data about the payment that’s necessary to […]

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Episode 56 – Consumer Healthcare Payments – BillingTree

By George Peabody on July 28 2017

Consumer billing payments get complicated in the healthcare space. Co-payments are bigger than ever as are the medical bills. Consumers need prompting to pay and even incentives to get those big bill onto a payment plan. With higher co-payments, smaller insurance payments, and so many patients having to deal with large medical bills, providers need services […]

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Episode 43 – Making Money Fly over Borders – ISO 20022, the IPFA, and Faster International Payments

By George Peabody on October 10 2016

Faster payments, B2B payments, international remittances, cross-currency, and cross-border payments. These are hot topics and major challenges the payments industry must address. Central to all is the ability to represent, in an interoperable fashion, the information that surrounds the payment itself. What’s this payment for? Who is it for? Where’s it going? These are information […]

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Marwan Forzley, Align Commerce, and the Evolution of Blockchain Business

By George Peabody on August 5 2016

Bitcoin’s reliability and transaction-level security has inspired today’s explosion of blockchain pilots, companies, and consortia. But the bitcoin rails already have solid commercial applications. Circle Internet Finance has focused on person to person payments. Align Commerce has focused on international B2B payments for smaller businesses. With growth, both have blended bitcoin rails with more traditional […]

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PoF 17 – Aligning Bitcoin with B2B Remittances

By George Peabody on March 29 2015

Paying invoices and moving funds aross borders for small and medium business (SMB) is expensive and full of uncertainties. How much does the recipient actually get once the transaction is finished? (Hint: it’s not always what was sent.)  How long does it take a San Francisco firm to pay an invoice to a contractor in Berlin […]

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PoF 1 – Payments on Fire Bitcoin Discussion with Scott Loftesness

By George Peabody on September 7 2014

Welcome to Glenbrook’s Payments on Fire podcast! This conversation between Glenbrook’s founding partner Scott Loftesness, Terence Spies, CTO of Voltage Security, and Glenbrook’s George Peabody is about virtual currencies.  It’s a discussion about Bitcoin, other math-based currencies and approaches like Ethereum, Nxt, and more. We’re calling Glenbrook’s podcast series Payments on Fire because, well, payments […]