Payments on Fire™

Yvette Bohanan hosts Glenbrook's Bryan Derman, Chris Uriarte, Cici Northup, and Joanna Wisniecka to discuss their attendance at the upcoming Money20/20 conference. Listen in to hear what noteworthy payments trends the team is paying attention to and what related themes they expect to surface at Money20/20. We'll catch up with them after the conference to see what takeaways were most surprising or...

Most of us see payments innovation as the force that moves markets. That's true when it comes to user experience and the tech that moves money. But it is government regulation and business contract rules that guide and control what financial services players can, and can't, do with their shiny new tools. Or crusty old ones. Regulation in the US is a complex, multi-layered reality for incumbents an...

Glenbrook's Russ Jones returns with George Peabody and Yvette Bohanan on this episode of Payments on Fire® to discuss tokenization - a substitution of a high value primary account number with a digit that, in many cases, looks just like the original PAN, but isn't. Tune in as they break down how tokenization works and the security it provides, amidst numerous cooking metaphors.  https://pof.glenbr...

Merchants rejoice? Credit card interchange regulation is on the table with the Credit Card Competition Act of 2022. But the new rule proposed by Senators Dick Durbin and Roger Marshall is pretty unusual, and the researchers at Glenbrook have been hard at work trying to figure out what it means for the industry. How is it different from existing debit interchange regulation and credit interchange r...

Glenbrook's Drew Edmond joins Yvette Bohanan on the show to recap his experience at the PaymentsEd Forum in Washington DC earlier this month. In addition to attending the conference, Drew also spoke on a panel about "How collaboration at scale can improve outcomes" with Jordan Kaplan from Groupon and Jonathan Lee from Netflix, moderated by Tyler Heun from checkout.com.  Tune in to hear more about...

If you've attended a Glenbrook Payments Boot Camp®, chances are good that you remember reviewing push and pull payments during the key concepts. The determination for whether a transaction is push or pull comes down to who is sharing their payment address. If the receiver is sharing, it is a push payment. If the sender is sharing, it is a pull payment. But what if the sender and receiver are not p...

Glenbrook's Neel Saunshi and Yvette Bohanan return to explain the Proof of Work consensus algorithm. Listen in as they discuss what it is, how it works, and the environmental impact from the associated energy consumption. https://pof.glenbrook.com/

In this Fanning the Flames episode, Neel Saunshi joins Yvette Bohanan to discuss a very hot topic in the industry - NFTs. Tune in as they break down smart contracts, what's happening behind the scenes, and examples and applications for how this technology is being used to disrupt various industries.  https://pof.glenbrook.com/

Glenbrook's own Elizabeth McQuerry and Joanna Wisniecka just returned from spending a couple of weeks in Kenya leading training on inclusive payments systems.  While in the country, they got to play end-users of digital payments and experimented with M-PESA's mobile money e-wallet. You may have been following their payments adventure on Glenbrook's LinkedIn page .  Listen in to hear more about the...

Chuck Huang, Founder and CEO of Citcon, joins George Pebody and Yvette Bohanan on this episode of Payments on Fire® to chat about digital wallets across the globe. Listen in to hear their thoughts on where the industry is headed as the consumer payment choice continues to diversify.

In this episode of Payments on Fire®, George and Yvette Bohanan welcome Ahon Sarkar, GM of Helix by Q2. Listen in as they discuss embedded finance, multi-tenancy, participating in the FedNow pilot, and bringing online, physical and financial worlds together into a consistent experience that is meaningful to customers.

George and Yvette welcome back Robin Gandhi in this episode of Payments on Fire®. Formerly of TripActions ( Episode 146 ), Robin is now the chief product officer of Nium, a firm specializing in bringing cross-border payments capabilities to banks, fintechs, and large and medium enterprises.    Glenbrook has been taking a deep dive into Global Payments lately - check out recent recorded webinars ....

Just off the plane from Nashville, Glenbrook's Elizabeth McQuerry and Cici Northup sat down with Yvette Bohanan to chat about attending NACHA's Smarter Faster Payments Conference, where Elizabeth also participated in a session with the US Faster Payments Council. Tune in to hear their takeaways and why this year was "not your grandma's NACHA conference".

In this episode of Payments on Fire®, Yvette Bohanan is joined by Patrick Chen, co-founder of SpecTrust, to discuss payments risk, fraud, and the age-old question of good versus evil. Listen in to hear how organizations can combat fraud while still providing the best customer journey.

In this episode of Payments on Fire®, George Peabody and Yvette Bohanan are talking payment trends and best practices with Fiserv's Casey Klyszeiko, Head of Carat and eCommerce at Fiserv.  Tune in to hear Casey, a Payments Boot Camp alum himself, discuss the consumer payments journey and the questions merchants should be asking in order to deliver the right payments experience for their customers.

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 against Russia, – with Switzerland setti...

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 promoting a webinar series about Central Bank Digit...

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 have Ismini Psychoula discussing fundamental technology, AI and ML, and its role in financial serv...

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 events and changes that really matter to the arc of the payment...

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 authorization rate? If you're not sophisticated about this, your decline rate could exceed...

Payment scams and the fraudsters who perpetrate them are everywhere. And as we speed up payments, the ability to send money from one account to another in near real-time, there's a lot to like for users. And for fraudsters. Scammers love it when they convince us to send them money from our own accounts. This is called authorized push payment fraud and it is a growing problem. To shed light on APP...

Financial health and inclusion in the US remain as major concerns  and challenges for the nation, the millions who struggle with access to affordable financial services, and payments experts focused in this arena. Join Glenbrook's Erin McCune and Justin Pituch as they speak with a recent panel of expert practitioners in the financial health space: Kimberley Gartner , Arjan Schutte , and Ryan Falve...

This podcast with Mimi Joy explores consumer financial wellbeing in the US and initiatives to improve access to quality financial services for low and moderate income Americans. Mimi shares her perspective as Head of Partnerships at the Financial Health Network , a leading authority in the space. Topics discussed include: The current state of the financial health landscape Research on the effect o...