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April 27, 2022
Episode 165 - Fanning The Flames - Global Payments - Elizabeth McQuerry & Joanna Wisniecka
Yvette Bohanan, Elizabeth McQuerry and Joanna Wisniecka scratch the surface of global payments in this inaugural episode of Fanning the Flames, a shorter segment of Payments on Fire®.
January 28, 2022
Episode 162 - Stablecoins, Cross-border Payments & Interoperability - Ran Goldi, First Digital Assets Group
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.
December 9, 2021
Episode 160 - Innovation in Payments Workshop - Russ Jones, Glenbrook Partners
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 industry. Glen is a Payments Consultant, Analyst, Co-Author of "Payments Systems in the U.S.” and partner at Glenbrook Partners.
August 16, 2021
Episode 156 - How to Make Financial Health a Reality - Mimi Joy, Financial Health Network
This podcast with Mimi Joy explores consumer financial wellbeing in the US and initiatives to improve access to quality affordable 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.
August 13, 2021
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.
July 2, 2021
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.
June 10, 2021
Episode 151 - The Fintech Network Built for SMB Payments - Marwan Forzley, Veem
We continue our fintech series on how fintechs deliver payments services that were formerly brought to market by banks or were just unavailable.
April 28, 2021
Episode 149 - Bringing Data to Secure A2A Transactions - Eli Polanco, Nivelo
The U.S. is moving faster than ever into seamless, account-to-account payments. That means enterprises and their payments providers are able to initiate a payment from one bank account and direct it to another. Think payroll. Think supply chain.
April 21, 2021
Episode 148 - The Fintech Bringing Crypto and Diem to Payments Users - Ran Goldi, First
2021 will be remembered as the year that cryptocurrencies become a full time presence on Wall Street and a top agenda item at the world’s central banks.
The potential for cryptocurrencies to digitally enable the financial lives of world’s 1.7 billion unbanked is gaining interest as well as increasing incumbent concern.
March 19, 2021
Episode 147 - The Apps of the Card World: Closed Loop Prepaid - Dom Morea, Fiserv
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.
March 3, 2021
Episode 146 - Multiplayer Fintech Builds a Winning B2B Service - Robin Gandhi, TripActions
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.
September 25, 2020
Episode 132 - Glenbrook's Erin McCune Talks B2B with Cit's Tony McLaughlin
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.
March 31, 2020
Episode 118 - Third Annual RTP Network Update - TCH's Steve Ledford
Welcome to Payments on Fire® and to our third, now annual, discussion with Steve Ledford, SVP Products and Strategy at The Clearing House, and the leader of his company's Real Time Payment Network initiative.
November 19, 2019
Episode 108 - B2B Payments for the Massive Insurance Segment - Jeff Brown, VPay
Join Jeff Brown, president of VPay, a firm specializing in insurance claims payments, and George Peabody of Glenbrook Partners in this deep dive discussion of how the work of claims processing is done and how he approaches B2B payments, compliance, and the value-added services needed by the company's customers.
October 18, 2019
Episode 104 - The Complex World of Healthcare Payments - Ian Drysdale, Zelis Payments
Take a listen to Ian Drysdale of Zelis Payments and George as they discuss how complex the payments process is in the healthcare industry.
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