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Payments on Fire Podcasts

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.

Episode 290 - The Evolution of VAMP and Card Network Fraud Monitoring, with Keith Briscoe, MRC, and Allan Shearer, J.P. Morgan

In this episode, Chris Uriarte welcomes Keith Briscoe, VP, Advocacy and Education at the Merchant Risk Council, and Allan Shearer, Executive Director, Head of TMT Relationship Management at J.P. Morgan, to focus on the evolution of card network fraud monitoring programs, and in particular, VAMP, Visa's Acquirer Monitoring Program, which combines fraud and dispute metrics to better manage risk at both merchant and acquirer levels. Listen in as the group discusses industry reactions, data transparency and reporting challenges, and implications for enforcement of new thresholds.
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Payments News

Western Union to Launch Stablecoin Next Month, With ‘Stable Card’ Planned for Global Consumers

The Block

“Western Union announced it will launch its stablecoin, USDPT, next month. Western Union is also launching a network connecting digital wallets to its existing retail infrastructure, and a stablecoin payment card for global consumers. USDPT is expected to launch in select countries with key agent partners for onchain settlement, enabling faster processing. Western Union also […]

Many Consumers Say ‘No Thanks’ to Agent-Based Payments

Digital Transactions

“It’s still early days for agentic commerce and it appears consumers may want to forestall such transactions until they get much more comfortable with the technology, suggests the Riskified Agentic Commerce Pulse report. Riskified, says the report, which surveyed 2,000 consumers in the United States and the United Kingdom, found that 61.5% of them have […]

ECB Picks Open European Standards for Digital Euro, Sidelining Visa and Mastercard

Yahoo Finance

“The European Central Bank (ECB) signed agreements with three European standard-setting bodies to build the digital euro on open, non-proprietary infrastructure, directly challenging the dominance of Visa and Mastercard across the eurozone. The deals with the European Card Payment Cooperation (ECPC), nexo standards, and the Berlin Group give the digital euro a free, shared technical […]

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