Payments on Fire™

Multiplayer fintech takes payments services to levels of depth and breadth not seen before. The breadth of payments platform services enables other fintechs to bring comprehensive capabilities to their customers. Listen to this conversation with Modern Treasury's CEO Dimitri Dadiomov, its Chief Growth Officer Rachel Pike, and Glenbrook's Erin McCune. You'll hear: The creation story of Modern Treas...

In this wide ranging Payments on Fire® episode featuring gateway provider NMI , you'll hear how payment industry roles continue to evolve as tech and consumer preferences change. Topics covered include: The evolution of touchless payments from QR to Tap on Phone NFC transactions What a gateway does How a white label provider sells and who uses its services What an ISV needs to think about when con...

Fast payments will move the US payments market. But to get there, we need fintech to expose those capabilities. Zelle, the RTP Network, Same Day ACH, push to card, and eventually FedNow all need providers that connect up to those rails. For an enterprise or its software developers, a single integration to all sure would be easier. In this Payments on Fire® episode featuring Dwolla , you'll hear: A...

Curious about how fast payments systems like Zelle, the RTP Network, and FedNow work? Many fast payments use cases aren't about speed. Find out why. Fast payment systems are national "must haves" around the world. Take a listen to this conversation with Glenbrook's Elizabeth McQuerry and ACI Worldwide's Craig Ramsey. Come to the Payments on Fire® website for: Expanded show notes Video snapshot Pod...

Glenbrook's fintech payment series continues with this look at Veem in a deep convo with Marwan Forzley, CEO. Curious about how fintechs solve client problems? Fintechs aren't just about payments; they blend commerce enablement into their offerings The payment solution that solves the data problems - as well as moves the money - provides the most benefit to the customer Did you know that fintechs...

Curious about how fintechs solve client problems? Fintechs aren't just about payments; they blend commerce enablement into their offerings The payment solution that solves the data problems - as well as moves the money - provides the most benefit to the customer Did you know that fintechs don't do anything new? They just do it better. Take a listen to George and RoadSync's CEO Robin Gregg as they...

How do you secure bank to bank transfers between counter parties when the payment system itself lacks strong authentication? Can you balance the cost, speed, and security of transactions across multiple payment networks? In this episode of the Payments on Fire® fintech series, join Glenbrook's Nicole Pinto and George Peabody as they speak with Eli Polanco, CEO and Founder of Nivelo. Her company of...

There's a huge shift on the horizon. Want to learn about the state of cryptocurrencies in payments today? What about the entrepreneur's journey in leading edge fintech and payments technology? Take a listen as Glenbrook partners George Peabody and Yvette Bohanan talk crypto, Diem, CDBCs, and the evolution of digital money with Ran Goldi, CEO of First Digital Assets Group. Goldi's entrepreneurial s...

Prepaid cards are the "apps" of the card world. Join George and Fiserv's Head of Prepaid Dom Morea as they introduce prepaid's twin modalities - open loop and closed loop - and then dive into how the gift card industry has morphed into a far broader set of uses cases. And plan to return for the next episode as they discuss open loop's evolution. Card payments have four modalities: Charge Cards . T...

In our payments education workshops, we make the point that today's fintechs rarely do something entirely new. At the macro level, our activities and the transactions they produce haven't changed. We buy food and clothing. We pay rent. But where and how we do these things has been transformed by technology. A Great Time to Be a Fintech Fintechs are the newer, nimbler businesses that are most often...

GPay is Google's app for payments, financial services, rewards, and, is expanding its capabilities, its partnerships, and its ambitions. Join Glenbrook's George Peabody and Yvette Bohanan as they talk GPay with Steve Klebe , Google's head of GPay business development and Google's Processor and Partnerships work. Fairly recently, Google's payments services were a disjointed collection of point solu...

A Global Phenom Realtime Retail Payments (RTRP) systems are a global phenomenon. These systems exist or will soon in over 50 countries around the world. Some have been in operation for decades. The UK's Faster Payments system, operated by Mastercard's Vocalink unit, has been in operation for over ten years. Still others are still in the design stage. These account-to-account systems (A2A) have gai...

Continuing our payments in fintech series, we talk about one of the major changes in the payments industry over the last few years: the installment lending phenomenon. Companies like AfterPay , Klarna , and Affirm (that just IPO'd and saw its stock double in one day) are leaders in this buy now, pay later (BNPL) space and appeal to Millennial and Gen Z users as well as the merchants selling to the...

Faster Payments: Fundamental Tech for Payments Innovation Payments innovation comes in waves. And the wave that's breaking on the U.S. - having swept over 50 countries around the world - is faster payments. Also referred to as Real-time Retail Payments (RTRP) these systems are fundamentally different from what's come before: They are push payment systems They are new, systemically important domest...

The Fintech Phenomenon is rarely about doing something entirely new. It's about doing things in a new way that better fits the needs of the target market. The fintech model also enables the provider to reach underserved market segments. Lending is, of course, the core offering of banks. But between their legacy processes, underwriting requirements, compliance demands, and more, they simply aren't...

In a crisp explanation of account takeover and authentication risks, George and Robert Capps, Vice President, Market Innovation, at NuData Security. They discuss the findings of a recent NuData report and its experience with the sophistication of online fraudsters. NuData's techniques are all about foiling cybercriminals as they bang at the front door of financial institutions, merchants, streamin...

Take a listen as George and Deluxe's President and CEO Barry McCarthy discuss how the company continues to adapt to and prosper in the digital age. Barry talks about the journey the company has taken, in recent times shifting from a conglomerate model grown via acquisition to today's streamlined and focused small business focused organization. The Journey from Paper to Digital Services In Glenbroo...

Open banking. It's a term we started to hear about at the end of 2016 and since 2019 interest has remained high. That's according to Google Trends. Along with those searches, the related hot topics were PSD2 and APIs. Regulation and technology is opening up access to bank accounts for payers, billers, and service providers. But the state of that openness varies by region and country with important...

Financial inclusion for the poor is a global challenge. In this episode, we dive into the story of Mojaloop, a platform that enables interoperability and transaction routing between mobile money system operators, banks, and other providers. It's a fascinating, and evolving, story. Take a listen. = = = = = =  Individual Benefits, Nation Building Impact Financial inclusion for the poor is a global c...

For a front row seat on payment innovation you have plenty of choices. Yes, Stripe and Square are based in the tech hotbed of the Bay Area and it's tempting to stare at their success. But a look around the world reveals the evolutionary breadth of how payments are made, regulated, and brought to market. India and China alone reveal how remarkably different approaches can scale to enormous dimensio...

2020 has been an active period for payments innovation. COVID-19 has been a forcing function for digital payments across multiple payment domains. "Touchless" and "contactless" payments are now common themes of retailer advertising. And, of course, many other trends have accelerated this year. Fintechs, mobile wallets, the expansion of open banking initiatives, and point of sale lending are trends...

COVID is a forcing function for digital channel growth across the world as consumers and businesses reduce their reliance on physical interactions. We've seen usage shifts in how bank accountholders in Peru transact - from branch to digital - as well as big shift in payment behavior. We outlined a lot of this in our own COVID series on Payments Views. Many merchants have turned to online as a matt...

You'd have to be aggressively disinterested in the payments industry not to be aware of its attraction to investors. The COVID-19 pandemic has done nothing to dampen the interest, if not outright enthusiasm, for the payments industry among investors of all stripes. Actually, the pandemic has lit a fire under key industry segments like the e-commerce domain, digital banking, and disbursements. The...

This Payments on Fire® podcast is a joint production of Citibank and Glenbrook. Tony McLaughlin of Citibank interviewed our partner Erin McCune about the U.S. payments market and business transactions in particular. The U.S. payments landscape is in the midst of unprecedented change -- triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic, new faster payment infrastructure, open banking and an overall acceleration o...

NACHA's Phixius is a new service for the exchange of the information about a payment between the sender and receiver. Take a listen to Payments on Fire® host George Peabody as he discusses Phixius with NACHA Advisor Peter Tapling . He helps us understand Phixius, how it works and where it applies. It's a compelling idea. One of the long standing shortcomings in payments systems has been the degree...