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Episode 300 - Reflecting on 12 Years of Payments on Fire

2026 is a milestone year for Glenbrook as we celebrate the 25th anniversary of the firm. We also find ourselves airing the 300th episode of our Payments on Fire podcast - founded by George Peabody in 2014, nurtured by Yvette Bohanan, and now continued on through the hosting efforts of most of the team. We thought there would be no better way to mark the 12 year achievement - and pay respect to what George and Yvette built - than to revisit the journey with clips from the first 299 episodes. From early episodes on digital currency and AI, to fast payments evolution and financial inclusion efforts (and how could we leave out tokenization), listen in as Bryan Derman and Jill Wurst guide you through significant moments in the podcast’s history.

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Visa and Airwallex Join Forces to Build the Next Generation of Financial Infrastructure for Freight Platforms

Airwallex

“Visa and Airwallex  announced a collaboration to develop embedded-finance solutions tailored to freight and shipping platforms, helping modernise how businesses manage payments, working capital and cross-border commerce across one of the world’s most complex industries. The collaboration brings Visa’s expertise in commercial payments, acceptance strategy, risk management and industry-specific solution design with Airwallex’s embedded-finance capabilities, […]

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Swift Enables Blockchain Ledger for Cross-Border Payments

IBS Intelliegence

“Swift has activated its blockchain-based ledger infrastructure, enabling banks to pilot tokenised deposit transactions for 24/7 cross-border payments and improved liquidity management. The new ledger was developed to support regulated digital asset transactions, allowing participating banks to move tokenised value across borders while maintaining existing compliance, risk and settlement controls. Swift said 17 banks across six continents […]

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Authentication Card Issuers Fintech Merchants Modernization

Episode 297 - A New Era for Card Issuing, with Nikil Konduru, Lithic

Drew Edmond and Chris Uriarte chat with Nikhil Konduru, Chief Commercial Officer at Lithic, to discuss modern card issuing infrastructure and where the market is headed. Tune in as they break down the issuing stack, discuss issuer-side tools to improve authorization outcomes, and explore implications for cross-border payments and agentic commerce.

Cross-border Payments Global Payments Merchants

Episode 296 - Fanning the Flames - Beyond Borders: Navigating Your Global Payments Strategy

Going global with your payments strategy requires far more than choosing a single payment provider: companies must weigh local acquiring versus cross-border acquiring, country-by-country payment preferences, entity structure, tax implications, compliance requirements, authorization performance, currency handling, and provider coverage. In this episode, Chris Uriarte joins Glenbrook colleagues Samantha Gordon, Simon Skinner, and Drew Edmond to explore the complexities and potential benefits for merchants and platforms to consider when expanding payments globally.

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Mid-Year Payments Check-In: Revisiting Our 2026 Predictions

The Glenbrook team is taking stock in June 2026 to see how the payments trends predictions from our January Payments on Fire episode are holding up.

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New Enhancement to Nacha’s Risk Management Portal Helps FIs Keep ACH Contacts Current

Nacha

“A new enhancement is now live, giving financial institutions an easy and reliable way to verify that their ACH Contact Registry information is accurate and up to date. FI Administrators that navigate to the ACH Contact Registry landing page will be prompted to verify their mandatory contact information via a new feature, only if they […]

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FIS Launches Enterprise Risk Suite on AWS to Provide Continuous Cloud-Native Delivery

FIS Global

“Global financial technology leader FIS® announced the launch of FIS Enterprise Risk Suite on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Upgrading risk software has always meant disruption and for firms managing risk in real-time, that’s a trade-off they can’t afford. This deployment on AWS reduces this by delivering a cloud-native risk management platform that keeps financial institutions on […]

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NCUA Announces Proposed Rule for Permitted Payment Stablecoin Issuer Standards

NCUA

“The National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) announced a Notice of Proposed Rule Making outlining the operational and risk management standards for an NCUA-licensed permitted payment stablecoin issuer, as outlined in the GENIUS Act. “This proposed rule supports my view that credit unions will face no disadvantage compared to other entities regarding standards” said NCUA Chairman […]

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3-D Secure Authentication Payments Fraud Secure Customer Authentication

Episode 292 - Modern Authentication and the Impact on Payments Cost and Performance, with Amandeep Batra, Stripe and Dewald Nolte, Entersekt

In this follow-up conversation, Chris Uriarte welcomes back Amandeep Batra from Stripe and Dewald Nolte from Entersekt to discuss updated research and analysis on 3-D Secure and tokenization and to explore how authentication and tokenization interact in practice across different regulatory environments.

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Sector Risk Advisory: Preparing the Enterprise for AI-Enabled Vulnerability Discovery

FSISAC

“Recent announcements of AI frontier models’ advanced vulnerability discovery and chaining capabilities to create exploits indicate an important change in the risk landscape for financial services. Traditional assumptions and approaches for vulnerability management no longer hold. FS-ISAC recommends the following as part of a fundamental shift in operations to manage cybersecurity and resilience risks.”

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Global

ION Brings Mandatory EU Payee Verification Live at Scale

PR Newswire

“ION Treasury, a global provider of treasury and risk management solutions for corporations, financial institutions, and central banks, announced the introduction of Verification of Payee (VoP) capabilities across its treasury solutions. This enables customers to comply with a major EU payments regulation as it moves into active enforcement.”

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Embedded Finance Merchants Payment Facilitation

Episode 291 - The Complex and Growing World of Platform Payments, with Blake Breathitt, Adyen

In this episode, Chris Uriarte speaks with Blake Breathitt, Senior Vice President of Platforms and Financial Services at Adyen, about one of the biggest growth engines in the industry over the past few years - platform payments. Listen in as they discuss the nature of this interesting segment of the industry, the nuance behind platform payments, and just what's driving this platform payment phenomenon.

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Nacha: Rising to the Challenge of First-Party Fraud

Nacha

“Nacha’s Risk Management Advisory Group (RMAG), Rules and Operations Committee, and the First-Party Fraud Workgroup are looking at ways to better identify and mitigate first-party fraud. The first steps are education and raising awareness of the problem. We have issued a series of articles describing first-party fraud and addressing actions for both ODFIs and RDFIs.”

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The Missing Context Layer in Agentic Commerce: Part 2

Glenbrook's Drew Edmond examines why the agent’s role in agentic commerce varies significantly by purchase category, where the context layer is being built today, and how far along it actually is.