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Latest Articles
Glenbrook shares our perspectives on activities in the industry.
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.
The Missing Context Layer in Agentic Commerce: Part 3
Glenbrook’s Drew Edmond explores the specific implications for the payments and agentic commerce industry: how discovery changes when agents mediate it, how payment selection shifts upstream, how merchants need to prepare differently across categories, and who ultimately controls the agent layer.
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.
Latest Podcasts
Glenbrook speaks with industry leaders to share a variety of perspectives on the latest payments trends and activities.
Episode 305 – Fanning the Flames: Glenbrook Answers your Payments Questions
We’ve had over 35,000 professionals complete a Glenbrook workshop, and we constantly hear from participants that they were surprised by how something in the industry works or a specific data point. How people think about payment systems is largely driven by how they use them as an individual consumer, and also influenced by where they sit in their career.
One of the goals of our payments workshops is to add clarity to ambiguous industry terminology. We also allow ample time for interactive Q&A, and whether the workshop is in-person or virtual, we hear some questions over and over.
In this episode, Debbie Bartoo surfaces some of our most frequently asked workshop questions and lets Russ Jones guide us through the answers.
Episode 304 – Fanning the Flames: Meta Muse, Instinct, and the Current State of Agentic Commerce
Glenbrook’s Chris Uriarte and Drew Edmond revisit the state of agentic commerce, exploring emerging consumer interfaces like Instinct and Meta Muse, access to merchant catalogs and data, and the challenges of turning agent-driven shopping into actual transactions. They also share their firsthand experiences making an agentic purchase through Meta Muse, and the industry complexities that still need addressed.
Episode 303 – Fanning the Flames: Every Payment, Every Environment, All at Once
This episode is a follow up to Drew Edmond’s 2025 payments performance optimization series, and an accumulation of what he has learned about how optimization actually works today. And here’s the short version – for subscription payments and for subscription businesses, an individual transaction success depends on a lot more than just the payment.
Tune in as Drew outlines a data-forward approach that spans every environment a payment touches, highlighted by clips from previous guests from the payments performance optimization series.
Latest News
Glenbrook objectively curates the news to keep you abreast of important daily headlines in payments.
ISO 20022 Payments Data: The Shift From Message Migration to Consistent Information
"After the end of coexistence for key Swift cross-border payment messages, the industry’s attention is shifting to data quality, interoperability and operational implementation. ISO 20022 is an international standard for financial messaging that supports more...
Visa Releases First-of-Its-Kind Industry Benchmark for AI Shopping; Almost Half of Test Runs Fail
"Visa launched Visa Agentic Commerce Benchmark, a new benchmark for industry that puts leading AI models through realistic buying challenges—and is letting people take the test, too. The first round of tests involved 22 different AI models from 12 labs taking on 15...
Huntington Bank Announces Treasury Solution that Turns Multi-Bank Complexity into Improved Liquidity Management
"The Huntington National Bank announced the launch of Intelligent Treasury, a new, modern treasury management platform designed to help commercial clients simplify treasury operations, improve cash visibility and manage liquidity more effectively across multiple...
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