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Episode 254 - Reshaping How We Move Money with Booshan Rengachari, Finzly

Booshan Rengachari, CEO of Finzly, joins Glenbrook’s Elizabeth McQuerry and Simon Skinner to discuss how software, fast payments, and open banking are reshaping the banking industry and the way we think about financial services.

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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.

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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 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.

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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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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.

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Episode 241 - How Open Banking is Reshaping the Financial Playing Field with John Pitts, Plaid

In this episode, John Pitts, Head of Policy at Plaid, sat down with Yvette Bohanan to discuss open banking and its potential to change the finance industry’s playing field: How consumers manage their personal financial lives, how financial service providers compete, and what this means for businesses. Listen to hear how, once again, the triad is at work reshaping the payments industry.

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Episode 240 - Fanning the Flames: Potential Winners and Losers in the Proposed Acquisition of Discover

In this episode, we fan the flames to get Glenbrook’s hot takes on the proposed Capital One acquisition of Discover. Now that the dust has settled a bit on the February announcement, and while we wait with bated breath to see if the regulators will sign off on this deal, we wanted to debate the potential winners and losers - and possible outcomes - of an acquisition.

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Episode 239 - Talking Payments and Politics with Michele Alt and Adam Shapiro, Partners at Klaros Group

In this episode, Yvette Bohanan is joined by Glenbrook Managing Partner Bryan Derman and guests Michele Alt and Adam Shapiro, Partners at the Klaros Group. The result is a lively discussion about regulators and the impact of the current regulatory environment on banks and fintechs, a topic of utmost relevance in today's rapidly evolving industry landscape. The economy and all that is at play during a major election year create a fascinating backdrop for this conversation.

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Episode 238 - Will Pay by Bank Really Compete with Cards? Trevor Nies, Adyen

In this episode, we sit down with Trevor Nies, SVP, Global Head of Digital at Adyen to discuss the pay by bank landscape in the US compared to other countries, why the US seems to be facing some headwinds, and what merchants should be thinking about when it comes to implementing pay by bank.

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Episode 237 - Is Orchestration the New Normal In Payment Operations? A conversation with John Lunn, Gr4vy

This episode with John Lunn, CEO and Founder of Gr4vy, shifts the conversation from “What is orchestration?” to “Why is orchestration so powerful?”

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Episode 236 - How to Make Money in Payments with Russ Jones, Glenbrook Partners

In this episode, Glenbrook's Russ Jones joins Yvette to talk through 8 simple ideas about how you make money in payments.

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Episode 235 - Taking Stock in Fast Payments with Gregor Dobbie, CEO of TFPA and former CEO of Vocalink

Vocalink’s origin story, which began in 1998, spurred payments modernization efforts worldwide. For this episode, we sat down with Gregor Dobbie, CEO of TFPA and former CEO of Vocalink, to discuss what we can learn from Vocalink’s journey and what the future holds for core payment systems.

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Episode 234 - Partnerships in the Payments Industry - Insights, Musings, and Hard-Won Wisdom with Steve Klebe

Steve Klebe returns to the podcast to talk about payments partnerships. The right payments partnerships can make the industry better, bring novel and differentiated offerings to the market, and make the payment transaction easier, more secure, and more valuable to consumers and businesses.

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Episode 233 - How unexpected technology combinations can lead to practical payment solutions with Glendy Kam, Tassat

In searching for guests who will inspire us to eschew false choices in favor of unexpected combinations, we met Glendy Kam, Chief Product Officer at Tassat. In this episode, Yvette enjoyed geeking out on payments innovation with Glendy and digging into how Tassat is creating an infrastructure enabling $1.4Tr in payments for commercial bank customers.  For all the participants who have been through a Glenbrook workshop and have asked about real-world use cases for distributed ledgers and blockchain technologies in payments, or are trying to figure out how to combine new and existing technologies to solve a problem, this episode is for you. Enjoy!