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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 285 – Fanning the Flames – What We’re Watching in Payments in 2026
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
PoF 26 – Maybe It’s 3D Secure, After All
The 3D Secure protocols, one for each network, that connect ecommerce merchants to the cardholder’s issuer, has had a rough go. But after ten years, smarter application of the tool and, in particular, risk-based usage makes it more attractive to both issuers and merchants.
PoF 25 – Directory Service for Virtual Currencies
The Internet’s designers quickly realized that no one’s very good at remembering IP address numbers. Unless you type the same number over and over again (and I did when I ran an ISP) a human readable version is a lot easier. That’s what the domain name system or DNS is all about, connecting human readable names to specific IP addresses.
PoF 24 – EMV, the Small Business, and New Ways to Pay
Every payment pro in the US is also a shopper and we all know that the largest retailers are poised to support EMV. Nearly all have EMV capable hardware. A few have turned it on. Most are waiting for the October liability shift so the temporary pain and awkwardness of clerk and consumer confusion is spread across everyone.
PoF 23 – What’s Up with HCE – Talking with inventor Doug Yeager
Host card emulation (HCE) was invented back in 2012. It was supposed to do for NFC on Android what Apple Pay has done for NFC in the iOS ecosystem. But it’s taken longer, a lot longer, for a robust Android-based NFC capability to get deployed.
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