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Payments on Fire Podcasts

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.
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Payments News

Visa Announces Enhanced Capabilities That Can Bring Trust and Control to the Future of Business Payments

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“Visa announced three capabilities across commercial card growth, virtual card security and agentic commerce for commercial payments. The enhanced capabilities include: SESA 2.0, the next generation of Supplier Enablement Spend Analytics. Visa Commercial Fraud Solutions, a  suite of capabilities designed to help issuers and businesses apply controls before a payment is approved. A live agentic […]

OCC Sets $5 Million Capital Floor for Stablecoin Issuers

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“The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency has finalised its payment stablecoin rules under the GENIUS Act, setting a $5 million capital floor and an application route for issuers before the law takes effect on 18 January 2027. From 18 January 2027 a person generally must be an approved issuer to issue a payment […]

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