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Payments On Fire is the industry’s leading resource center for payments professionals. Here, you’ll find the resources and thought leadership that only Glenbrook’s experienced team can provide. Curated news stories, insightful opinion papers, provocative podcasts, and more – it’s all the thinking you need to stay competitive in a dynamic payments world.

March 21, 2025

Tink Hits 10,000 Merchant Milestone for Open Banking Payments

Tink

“We are excited to announced that 10,000 merchants have now chosen Pay by Bank via our Payment Service Provider (PSP) partnerships. Tink also recently hit a new €100M peak in a single day for its payment initiation services (PIS) across Europe, marking a tipping point in demand for Pay by Bank.”

March 20, 2025

March 11, 2025

Government Weighs Return of Merchant Charges on UPI, RuPay

MSN

“The government is considering a proposal to bring back merchant charges on Unified Payments Interface (UPI)-based transactions and RuPay-powered debit cards, said two senior bankers in the know. No MDR is currently levied on transactions using UPI and RuPay debit cards that are facilitated by retail payments network National Payments Corporation of India.”

March 10, 2025

Ingo Payments Partners with Securely to Deliver Real-Time Merchant Settlements with Advanced Ledgering and Payment Capabilities

Business Wire

Ingo Payments announced its partnership with Securely, a cloud-based payment platform. This collaboration marks a milestone for both companies as Securely™ partners to bring Ingo’s full-service embedded banking platform to the market, combining proven payment infrastructure with an innovative approach to real-time merchant settlement through advanced ledgering and diverse payment options.

February 26, 2025

PayPal Plans to Use Stablecoin for Merchant Payments, Mass Payouts

Ledger Insights

PayPal held its first investor day under new CEO Alex Chriss, where it briefly touched on its cryptocurrency activities. To date, the stablecoin has mainly been used within the crypto ecosystem, despite being available via the PayPal app and Venmo. PayPal intends to change that by rolling it out for B2B use cases. Currently the market capitalization is […]

February 25, 2025

PayPal and J.P. Morgan Payments Broaden their Strategic Relationship to Launch Fastlane and Expand Merchant Acquiring in the UK and European Markets

PayPal Newsroom

PayPal Holdings, Inc. and J.P. Morgan Payments announced the expansion of their strategic relationship. J.P. Morgan Payments plans to offer Fastlane by PayPal for its merchant clients in the UK and Europe. In addition, PayPal is planning to expand merchant acquiring to businesses across the UK and European markets by leveraging J.P. Morgan Payments’ industry […]

January 27, 2025

November 5, 2024

October 10, 2024

Aeropay and Worldpay Partner to Advance Gaming Payments

Aeropay

“Aeropay and Worldpay have announced a new, strategic partnership to enhance gaming payments for players and operators. Aeropay’s proprietary account-to-account platform can now be integrated with Worldpay’s extensive merchant network — offering advanced A2A payments and payouts to U.S. gaming operators.”

August 20, 2024

August 16, 2024

X9 Launches Effort to Create Payment QR Code Standard

Accredited Standards Committee X9

“The Accredited Standards Committee X9 Inc. (X9) announced that it will develop a new QR code payments standard. The new standard will establish the content of a QR code for payments, emphasizing interoperability, in order to process a payment digitally, and will include both merchant-presented and customer-presented QR Codes.”

Digital Payments Platform Flexa Introduces Components

Business Wire

“Flexa launched Flexa Components, a suite of mobile-first experiences that streamlines direct wallet payments with digital assets for in-person transactions. Components represents the first asset-agnostic, embeddable interface for merchant point-of-sale systems to receive payments directly from digital wallet apps using Base, Bitcoin, Ethereum, Lightning, Litecoin, Polygon, Solana, and Zcash.”

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