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Episode 250 - Fanning the Flames: Ten Years of Apple Pay

Yvette Bohanan and Russ Jones celebrate the 10-year anniversary of the announcement of Apple Pay by reflecting on its origins, challenges, and successes. The episode highlights key features like tokenization, encryption, and biometric authentication, emphasizing Apple Pay's focus on security, privacy, and convenience. Tune in to take a look back at Apple Pay’s significant impact on the payments industry and a look forward to its continued expansion.

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Episode 249 - Two Decades of 3-D Secure: Can Strong Customer Authentication Succeed in the US and Unregulated Markets? with Dewald Nolte, Entersekt and Amandeep Batra, Stripe

Amandeep Batra from Stripe and Dewald Nolte from Entersekt join Glenbrook for this episode of Payments on Fire to dig into the impact on approval rates using 3-D Secure, and the use of Strong Customer Authentication to battle transaction fraud.

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Episode 248 - The Ins and Outs of Payouts with Manish Vrishaketu, Tipalti

Manish Vrishaketu, Chief Customer and Operations Officer at Tipalti, joins us for this episode to dive into why payouts have been overlooked for so long, what makes them challenging to master, and what is happening that may make things better and easier for a “niche” specialization in our industry that happens to be incredibly important for every company on the planet.

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Episode 246 - Going Real-Time with Dimitri Dadiomov, Modern Treasury

In this episode, we go deep on the state of real-time payments with Modern Treasury's Dimitri Dadiomov to understand whether we might be reaching the elusive “tipping point” for real-time payments in the U.S. and which players and what kind of use cases might be driving the growth.

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Episode 244 - Fanning the Flames: Understanding Mastercard’s Announcement to "Reimagine Online Checkout" in Europe by 2030

In this Fanning the Flames episode of Payments on Fire, Glenbrook’s Bryan Derman, Chris Uriarte, and Russ Jones discuss Mastercard's bold June announcement to eliminate manual card number entry for eCommerce transactions in Europe by 2030, and explore the challenges and necessary steps to achieve this goal.

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Episode 242 - From the Vault: Who Are You, Really? FIDO’s Biometric Authentication (Episode 28)

With this episode, we’re setting the stage for a series of discussions on authentication and identity, the critical components of tackling this pervasive issue. We’re embarking on a journey of perspective gathering from some of the industry’s leaders in risk management, authentication, and digital identity with this 2015 “from the vault” episode of Payments on Fire. Listen as Philip Andreae converses with George Peabody about the FIDO Alliance and its mission to bolster and streamline authentication.

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Episode 241 - How Open Banking is Reshaping the Financial Playing Field with John Pitts, Plaid

In this episode, John Pitts, Head of Policy at Plaid, sat down with Yvette Bohanan to discuss open banking and its potential to change the finance industry’s playing field: How consumers manage their personal financial lives, how financial service providers compete, and what this means for businesses. Listen to hear how, once again, the triad is at work reshaping the payments industry.

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Episode 240 - Fanning the Flames: Potential Winners and Losers in the Proposed Acquisition of Discover

In this episode, we fan the flames to get Glenbrook’s hot takes on the proposed Capital One acquisition of Discover. Now that the dust has settled a bit on the February announcement, and while we wait with bated breath to see if the regulators will sign off on this deal, we wanted to debate the potential winners and losers - and possible outcomes - of an acquisition.

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Episode 239 - Talking Payments and Politics with Michele Alt and Adam Shapiro, Partners at Klaros Group

In this episode, Yvette Bohanan is joined by Glenbrook Managing Partner Bryan Derman and guests Michele Alt and Adam Shapiro, Partners at the Klaros Group. The result is a lively discussion about regulators and the impact of the current regulatory environment on banks and fintechs, a topic of utmost relevance in today's rapidly evolving industry landscape. The economy and all that is at play during a major election year create a fascinating backdrop for this conversation.

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Episode 238 - Will Pay by Bank Really Compete with Cards? Trevor Nies, Adyen

In this episode, we sit down with Trevor Nies, SVP, Global Head of Digital at Adyen to discuss the pay by bank landscape in the US compared to other countries, why the US seems to be facing some headwinds, and what merchants should be thinking about when it comes to implementing pay by bank.

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Episode 237 - Is Orchestration the New Normal In Payment Operations? A conversation with John Lunn, Gr4vy

This episode with John Lunn, CEO and Founder of Gr4vy, shifts the conversation from “What is orchestration?” to “Why is orchestration so powerful?”

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Episode 236 - How to Make Money in Payments with Russ Jones, Glenbrook Partners

In this episode, Glenbrook's Russ Jones joins Yvette to talk through 8 simple ideas about how you make money in payments.

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Episode 234 - Partnerships in the Payments Industry - Insights, Musings, and Hard-Won Wisdom with Steve Klebe

Steve Klebe returns to the podcast to talk about payments partnerships. The right payments partnerships can make the industry better, bring novel and differentiated offerings to the market, and make the payment transaction easier, more secure, and more valuable to consumers and businesses.

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Episode 232 - Talking Payments and Fraud with Julie Fergerson, Merchant Risk Council

In this episode, Glenbrook Partners Yvette Bohanan, Russ Jones, and Chris Uriarte sat down with Julie Fergerson - a long-time payments professional who co-founded the Merchant Risk Council in 2000 and returned a few years ago to take on the role of CEO for what is now an industry-leading, global non-profit. We talk with Julie about how the payments industry has changed over the last two decades, with both the professionalization of payments and of fraud, and why she is now spearheading a certification program for the industry.

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Episode 229 - What Glenbrook is Watching in Payments in 2024

Glenbrook is kicking off the new year with a (lengthy) conversation on what payments industry trends and developments we think are the most interesting, compelling, and controversial at the moment, and what to watch as we move into 2024.