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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.

Companies

Ingenico and Crypto.com Launch Global Crypto Payment Solution for Millions of Merchants

Finance Feeds

“Ingenico has teamed up with Crypto.com to deliver a new crypto payment option to Ingenico’s merchant network worldwide. This innovative “plug-and-play” solution allows merchants to accept secure crypto payments, reaching over 680 million consumers around the world.”

Tags: Ingenico

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Episode 250 - Fanning the Flames: Ten Years of Apple Pay

Yvette Bohanan and Russ Jones celebrate the 10-year anniversary of the announcement of Apple Pay by reflecting on its origins, challenges, and successes. The episode highlights key features like tokenization, encryption, and biometric authentication, emphasizing Apple Pay's focus on security, privacy, and convenience. Tune in to take a look back at Apple Pay’s significant impact on the payments industry and a look forward to its continued expansion.

Companies

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.”

Tags: Worldpay

3-D Secure Authentication Payments Fraud Secure Customer Authentication

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.

B2B Payments

Episode 248 - The Ins and Outs of Payouts with Manish Vrishaketu, Tipalti

Manish Vrishaketu, Chief Customer and Operations Officer at Tipalti, joins us for this episode to dive into why payouts have been overlooked for so long, what makes them challenging to master, and what is happening that may make things better and easier for a “niche” specialization in our industry that happens to be incredibly important for every company on the planet.

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Payments Post #16: The Apple Drops

It’s time for another edition of Payments Post and (surprise!) we’re thinking about the Visa Flexible Credential again. Now that Apple has plans to open up the NFC chip and Secure Element to third party developers, we’re scratching our heads. Who benefits from this newfound NFC access? What opportunities can fintechs unlock? How will conventional financial institutions react? And to tie it all back, does the VFC still matter?

Fast Payments

Episode 246 - Going Real-Time with Dimitri Dadiomov, Modern Treasury

In this episode, we go deep on the state of real-time payments with Modern Treasury's Dimitri Dadiomov to understand whether we might be reaching the elusive “tipping point” for real-time payments in the U.S. and which players and what kind of use cases might be driving the growth.

Companies

Datos Names ACI Worldwide Best in Class in Payments Orchestration

ACI Worldwide

“ACI Worldwide was ranked “Best in Class” for Merchant Payments Orchestration in a new Datos Insights report. The report used four categories to analyze payments vendors: provider stability, client strength, client service and product features.”

Tags: ACI Worldwide

Industry

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.”

Companies

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.”

Tags: Flexa

Global

TFSF Pulse Enhances Merchant Payments with Crypto-to-Fiat Conversion [Dubai]

EIN Newsdesk

“TFSF Pulse announced its cutting-edge platform designed for the modern merchant that enables businesses to effortlessly accept a variety of cryptocurrency payments, including popular options like Bitcoin (BTC) and stablecoins, while converting these digital currencies into fiat currency for direct deposit into their bank accounts.”

Tags: UAE

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Episode 244 - Fanning the Flames: Understanding Mastercard’s Announcement to "Reimagine Online Checkout" in Europe by 2030

In this Fanning the Flames episode of Payments on Fire, Glenbrook’s Bryan Derman, Chris Uriarte, and Russ Jones discuss Mastercard's bold June announcement to eliminate manual card number entry for eCommerce transactions in Europe by 2030, and explore the challenges and necessary steps to achieve this goal.

Companies

Alipay Rolls Out Tap! To Make In-Store Payment Experience Simpler for Users in China

AsiaTechDaily

“Alipay is introducing the Tap! function to streamline in-store payments for users in major Chinese cities. To use it, users need to enable NFC on their phones, keep the screen unlocked, and simply tap their phone against the merchant’s USB add-on at the cash register to complete the transaction.”

Tags: Alipay