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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.
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 8, 2021
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.
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 21, 2021
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.”
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.
February 9, 2021
Episode 142 - Don’t Miss Out on Faster Payments, The Next Big Shift in Digital Payments - Russ Jones, Glenbrook Partners
Payments innovation comes in waves. And the wave that's breaking on the U.S. - having swept over 50 countries around the world - is faster payments. Also referred to as Real-time Retail Payments (RTRP) these systems are fundamentally different from what's come before.
May 12, 2020
Episode 123 - A Trip into the Nigerian Payments Ecosystem - Charles Ifedi, eBanqo
It is super instructive to hear about payments evolution. So, it's time to take a trip. In this Payments on Fire® episode we speak with Charles Ifedi, one of the founders of Interswitch, one of the leading digital payments providers in Nigeria, and founder of customer engagement platform company eBanqo.
April 21, 2020
Episode 120 - Deep Dive into Real-time Payments in Developing Markets - Elizabeth McQuerry, Glenbrook Partners
In this special episode of Payments on Fire®, Glenbrook partner Elizabeth McQuerry, partner in charge of Glenbrook's Global payments consulting practice, leads a conversation on the development and adoption of realtime payments in developing markets.
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.
September 16, 2019
Episode 101 - The U.S. Faster Payments Council - Kim Ford
In this Payments on Fire® episode, Faster Payments Council Executive Director Kim Ford discusses the Council's work, the U.S. Faster Payments Barometer survey, and where we are today with Glenbrook's Beth Horowitz Steel and Elizabeth McQuerry. Take a listen and take the survey. You'll contribute to the Council's education, planning, and prioritization work.
October 25, 2018
Episode 81 - Real-Time Payments Network Update - Steve Ledford, TCH
For those of you who didn't make it to Money20/20 and want to hear the latest on The Clearing House's Real-Time Payments Network (RTP), take a listen to this update conversation with Steve Ledford, SVP at The Clearing House for the RTP Network.
January 19, 2018
Episode 70 - Real-time Cross-border Payments - Laurence Cooke of nanopay
"Digital cash" has been a dream of the internet age for, well, almost the entire internet age. That goal requires instant payment settlement. It's more than just sending a message that a payment has happened; it means the money has actually moved.
November 30, 2017
Episode 66 - Real Time Payments Comes to the U.S. - Steve Ledford of TCH
Payments innovation runs at multiple speeds. Changes in how a payment is initiated happen almost every day. Payments infrastructure change is a lot slower. But it's happening. Nudged forward by the Federal Reserve's Faster Payments Task Force, we are seeing the launch of the first entirely new payments system in decades.
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