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October 19, 2022
Episode 181 - Michael Steinbach, Worldline
Join Wordline's Michael Steinbach and Glenbrook’s Elizabeth McQuerry and George Peabody to hear the story of SEPA’s creation, the Single Euro Payments Area. You’ll also learn about Worldline, Europe’s largest processor. It's an amazing story. If you are concerned with how networks work, or thinking of building network-based processes, there are lessons here - and cautions.
October 14, 2022
Episode 179 - Understanding US Payment Regulation with Jennifer Aguilar, Alston & Bird LLP
Regulation in the US is a complex, multi-layered reality for incumbents and fintechs alike. In this Payments on Fire® episode, Jennifer Aguilar, Sr. Associate at law firm Alston & Bird provides a crisp review of payment system rules, federal and state regulations, Regs E and Z, and more.
September 20, 2022
Episode 177 - Fanning the Flames: Durbin-Marshall Credit Card Competition Act
Merchants rejoice? Credit card interchange regulation is on the table with the Credit Card Competition Act of 2022. But the new rule proposed by Senators Dick Durbin and Roger Marshall is pretty unusual, and the researchers at Glenbrook have been hard at work trying to figure out what it means for the industry. How is it different from existing debit interchange regulation and credit interchange regulation in other jurisdictions? And how will players across the value chain react if the rule takes effect? Will anything really change? Glenbrook’s Justin Pituch joins Yvette Bohanan to discuss potential implications.
June 3, 2022
Episode 169 - Catching Up on the State of Payments - Robin Gandhi, Nium
George and Yvette welcome back Robin Gandhi in this episode of Payments on Fire®. Formerly of TripActions (Episode 146), Robin is now the chief product officer of Nium, a firm specializing in bringing cross-border payments capabilities to banks, fintechs, and large and medium enterprises.
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®.
March 3, 2022
Episode 163 - Payments Infrastructure and Foreign Policy
In this timely episode of Payments on Fire®, Yvette Bohanan has gathered teammates at Glenbrook (Elizabeth McQuerry, Erin McCune, Cici Northup, and Joanna Wisniecka) to discuss the payment infrastructure supporting the foreign policy actions being taken as a result of the situation in Ukraine.
January 13, 2022
Episode 161 - AI-ML and Bias - Ismini Psychoula, OneSpan
2022 just started and we got so much to see and learn this year. But, we are not alone in this learning journey. Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence are here to stay, so we also should learn why and how it works for the payments industry.
October 7, 2021
Episode 157 - Experts Deep Dive on Financial Health and Inclusion
As part of Glenbrook’s ongoing efforts to highlight new approaches to financial inclusion in the US, Erin McCune and Justin Pituch recently spoke with a panel of expert practitioners in the financial health space: Kimberley Gartner, Arjan Schutte, and Ryan Falvey.
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.
May 27, 2020
Episode 125 - COVID-19 Relief: Collaboration, Regulation, and Tech Do Good - Roberto Marinho, CEO, César Souto, Conta Zap, Brazil
This illuminating Payments on Fire® episode takes a deep look at a very new Brazilian payments platform called Conta Zap (Zap Account in English) and how a group of community minded people came together with Conta Zap to provide basic income to economically displaced Brazilians during the COVID-19 outbreak.
November 14, 2019
Episode 107 - The Financial Inclusion Impact of the Digital Wallet in Columbia - Hernando Rubio, CEO, Movii
Digital disruption and financial inclusion are focus areas throughout the developing world and the topics are white hot in Colombia. Listen in as Hernando Rubio, CEO of Moviired, speaks with Elizabeth McQuerry and George Peabody about Movii and payment / financial inclusion ecosystem in Colombia.
August 20, 2019
Episode 100 - Strong Customer Authentication - Russ Jones, Glenbrook Partners
For a nanosecond, about seven years ago, I thought the payments industry was entering a steady state where change, while sure to be accelerated by technology, was going to settle down to the familiar sedate pace the payments industry had taken for decades.
April 12, 2019
Episode 90 - PSD2 Enables Fintech Competitors - Myles Stephenson, Modulr
The U.K. and the EU take a very different approach to payments industry evolution than here in the States; the former directed by government mandate, the latter by marketplace dynamics and the lighter touch of regulators. But both are responding, at different speeds, to the need of fintechs and enterprises for access to bank-based data and services.
February 16, 2017
Episode 48 - APIs, ACH, and Faster Money - Dwolla
Sometimes a change in direction is the way forward. Network aspirant Dwolla has recently pivoted its work toward the product and development teams inside financial institutions. Instead of being a system operator, Dwolla now offers a broad set of APIs designed for those FIs to take advantage of the ACH's overnight and Same Day ACH services. Dwolla's shift also comes as the company and the US anticipates the impact of new immediate funds transfer systems Zelle, The Clearing House, and likely others.
June 30, 2016
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Biometrics, Big Data, and Tossing the Password
Digital identity is the black hole of the internet. Our online lives simply aren't protected by a system without strong authentication. Killing the password is Mission One for security professionals because they're so readily stolen through phishing attacks and malware. Users, warned to make passwords complex and unique, have no hope of remembering them. And a password is simply one factor of secure authentication. Biometrics and data, when used in combination, can relieve password fatigue and, for the relying party, increase security substantially, bringing some light to that dark place on the internet.
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