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Episode 272 - Fanning the Flames - 2025 Mid-Year Payments Industry Trends Update

To help you read the tea leaves in the mountains of publications, Yvette Bohanan rounded up Chris Uriarte and Drew Edmond for this mid-year update on payments industry trends. Tune in to hear updates and perspectives on topics like regulation, stablecoins, agentic commerce, tokenization, and fraud.

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Episode 271 - Sufficiently Solving the Non-Sufficient Funds Puzzle with Chanan Lavi, Kipp

In this episode, Drew Edmond is joined by Chanan Lavi, CEO and Co-founder of Kipp, to discuss solutions to the major problem of non-sufficient funds declines, as well as the implications for merchants, issuers, and consumers. 

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Episode 267 - Fanning the Flames: Agentic Commerce

Russ Jones and Drew Edmond spent some time at the Glenbrook water cooler this week to consider the rapidly emerging topic of agentic commerce and agentic payments. Tune in as they explore different industry perspectives in order to understand the implications of this new technology in the payments ecosystem.

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Episode 265 - Solving the Authentication Conundrum, with Rocky Scales, IDgo

In this episode, Glenbrook’s Yvette Bohanan and Chris Uriarte are joined by Rocky Scales, CEO of IDgo, to explore how financial institutions and businesses can implement more secure and user-friendly authentication systems to counteract evolving threats from sophisticated fraud methods.

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Episode 264 - A PSP’s Guide to Maximizing Merchant Performance, with Brant Peterson, Worldpay

In our next episode in a payments optimization series, Brant Peterson, Head of Enterprise Product, North America at Worldpay, joins Drew Edmond to talk about payment optimization through the perspective of a payment service provider (PSP).

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Episode 263 - Driving Digital Financial Inclusion: The Journey We’re On and the Road Ahead - Michael Wiegand, Gates Foundation

In this episode, Joanna Wisniecka joins Yvette Bohanan to chat with Michael Wiegand, Director of Inclusive Financial Systems at the Gates Foundation, about the work the Foundation is doing globally and the transformative impact of digital financial inclusion on economies and societies. 

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Episode 262 - Bot Attacks Are Getting Smarter...Are You? - Nate Kharrl, Spec

Spec co-founder and CEO Nate Kharrl joins Yvette Bohanan on Payments on Fire to dig into some of the tactics and tech that is enabling today's fraud schemes, and how GenAI is redefining the payments risk landscape.

Mergers and Acquisitions

Episode 261 - Fanning the Flames: Global Payments Acquisition of Worldpay

Glenbrook partners Bryan Derman, Chris Uriarte, and Simon Skinner jump on a Fanning the Flames episode of Payments on Fire to give a first take on the  Global Payments acquisition of Worldpay. Tune in to hear their strategic perspective on the deal. 

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Episode 260 - Scams, Stings, and Swindles in Payments #2 - David Maimon, SentiLink

David Maimon, head of Fraud Insights at SentiLink, joins Yvette Bohanan for another episode to raise awareness about different fraud tactics and their impacts. In this conversation, Yvette and David explore the intricacies and implications of Credit Profile Numbers (CPNs) and synthetic identity fraud, as well as “zombie debt” and assumed identity fraud. Listen in to hear the implications of these fraud schemes and how industry professionals can get ahead of them.

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Episode 257 - Scams, Stings, and Swindles in Payments - Catching up with David Maimon, SentiLink

In this episode, David Maimon, Head of Fraud Insights at SentiLink, joins Yvette to discuss the evolution and resurgence of check fraud, the increasing sophistication of fraud rings targeting banks and the government, and the adaptation of new technologies, including Generative AI, for criminal activity.

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Episode 255 - Glenbrook’s On-Demand Learning Launch and Behind the Scenes with the Payments Education Team

Debbie Bartoo and Russ Jones join Yvette Bohanan to discuss Glenbrook’s focus on payments education and share some of the fun and fascinating things that have happened in facilitating workshops for 34,000 (and counting) payments geeks. Listen in to hear behind-the-scenes insights from their workshop experiences and highlights from the latest offering, On-Demand Learning, as Glenbrook continues to evolve payments education with the changing industry landscape.

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Episode 253 - Glenbrook Partners: 2024 Payments Industry Trends Wrap Up

The Glenbrook partners reflect on key trends and challenges in the payments industry that shaped 2024 - from generative AI, open banking, the evolving regulatory landscape, and the rise of fast payment systems worldwide. And you can't get the Glenbrook team in a "room" without discussing ongoing fraud implications, orchestration in merchant payments, and the progress of tokenization. Tune in to hear insights from our industry experts on these themes and more as we wrap up the year and look towards 2025.

Payments Testing Technology

Episode 252 - Testing, Testing, 123: Payments has evolved in the past 20 years, what about payments testing? with Steve Semelsberger, Testlio

Steve Semelsberger, CEO of Testlio, joins Yvette Bohanan and Drew Edmond to discuss the evolution of quality management alongside payments testing.

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Episode 251 - Bridging the Communication Gap Between Treasury and Payments with Debopama Sen, Citi Treasury and Trade Solutions

Debopama Sen, Head of Payments at Citi Treasury and Trade Solutions, joins Glenbrook for this episode to explore how treasury and payments professionals can collaborate on opportunities presented by the evolving payments landscape.

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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.