Payments On FireTM podcast series is where payment issues are reviewed, dissected, and batted around with industry leaders. In other words, a good conversation between payments geeks.
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Episode 83 – Settlement Systems in Detail – Carol Coye Benson, Glenbrook
Episode 178 – Tokenization – Russ Jones, Glenbrook
Episode 218 – The Technologies, Policies, and Realities of Cross-border Payments – Glenbrook
Episode 231 – Fanning the Flames: Payments Orchestration – Glenbrook…
Episode 236 – How to Make Money in Payments – Russ Jones, Glenbrook
Episode 246 – Going Real-Time – with Dimitri Dadiomov, Modern Treasury
Episode 184 – Talking ACH – with Michael Herd, Nacha
Episode 257 – Scams, Stings, and Swindles in Payments – Catching up with David Maimon, SentiLink
Episode 175 – Delegated Push Payments – Russ Jones, Glenbrook
Episode 179 – Understanding US Payment Regulation – with Jennifer Aguilar, Alston & Bird LLP
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Episode 283 – Banking on Stablecoins, with Scott Southall and Will Artingstall, Citi
Episode 282 – Why You Need a Stablecoin Strategy, with Ran Goldi, Fireblocks
Episode 277 - Fanning the Flames - Recent Developments in Agent Protocols
Episode 155 – Enabling Payments Operations and the Multiplayer Fintech Ecosystem – Dimitri Dadiomov and Rachel Pike, Modern Treasury
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 payments - are broadly available. Stripe is just one example. We are now seeing "banking as a service" providers proliferate.
Episode 154 – Fighting Disruption in Merchant Services with Payments Tech – Kyle Pexton and Nick Starai, NMI
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.
Episode 153 – How to Make B2B Payments in a Few Lines of Code – Brady Harris and Adam Steenhard, Dwolla – Payments on Fire® Fintech Series
The fintech phenomenon and the ability of software developers and their enterprise customers to embed payments capability into business processes relies on multiple forms of access.
Episode 152 – The Fast Payments Imperative – Elizabeth McQuerry, Glenbrook and Craig Ramsey, ACI Worldwide
Fast payments are “must haves” in most economies. Their key attributes make them superior to other bank-led, open-loop systems. The speed of money has caught up with the speed of our communications. As Glenbrook’s Elizabeth McQuerry puts it, “this is a convergence of ideas around the world, a commonality, around this single approach in payments.”
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