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Payments on Fire Podcasts

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.

Episode 302 - Catching Up on the Capital Markets, with Timothy Chiodo, UBS

About a year ago, we chatted with with Tim Chiodo of UBS and Chris Kim of Capital Group about the investment side of payments. It’s been a pretty volatile 12-months in the equity market since then - well-timed for Bryan Derman to welcome Tim back on the podcast and catch up on the market factors playing into the payments space.  Listen in as they recap the performance of payments stocks, dive into the e-commerce market, provide perspective on the card networks, discuss merchant acquiring growth opportunities, and finish up with a lightning round on emerging technology. 
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Payments News

Why Retailers Are Divided Over AI Shopping Agents

Marketing Tech News

“Retailers are taking different approaches to AI shopping agents as platforms such as Meta, Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI move product discovery and checkout into conversational interfaces. Meta has announced plans to add Walmart, Best Buy, Gap, American Eagle Outfitters….as shopping connectors for Muse, its personal AI agent. The different approaches center on how much of […]

Trulioo Strengthens Identity Verification for Fiserv Clients Across Global Markets

Trulioo

“Trulioo announced a collaboration with Fiserv. Trulioo will bring its person and business verification capabilities to Fiserv, helping its clients streamline onboarding and underwriting across global markets. Trulioo provides person verification capabilities that combine identity data, document verification and fraud signals within workflows. Its business verification capabilities use trusted global and local data sources to […]

Federal Reserve: Will US Firms Adopt Stablecoins? Survey Says They’re Not Enthusiastic

Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland

“We surveyed 148 firms active in the Fourth District about whether they had plans to use stablecoins. Responses were overwhelmingly negative, with only eight of our contacts expressing any such plans. Asked why they did not plan to use stablecoins, respondents cited satisfaction with existing payment methods, unfamiliarity with the new technology, and a lack […]

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