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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

Bank of North Dakota Announces Stablecoin Pilot Program with Local Partners

North Dakota Monitor

“The Bank of North Dakota announced it has launched a pilot program for its Roughrider Coin. Four local banks and credit unions are using the state’s unique banking model, led by the Bank of North Dakota, to learn about possible benefits and pitfalls of the stablecoin financial technology. Fiserv, a Fortune 500 technology company that […]

Crypto Industry Hits Back at Regulator Calls for EU Stablecoin Reward Ban

The Banker

“European central banks and regulators have called on the EU to stop stablecoin issuers paying yield to coin holders, but the crypto industry has criticised the ban holding the bloc back.The EU banking watchdog also warned of the “very significant risk” posed by third-country multi-issuance schemes. These initiatives involve entities issuing stablecoins in several jurisdictions, […]

Introducing Personal Agent Protocol

Sierra

“Announcing Personal Agent Protocol — an open standard Meta and Sierra are developing along with industry partners at Genesys, Instinct, Rocket, Shopify, Stripe, and Walmart that defines how personal agents interact with businesses. We’re designing it to handle authentication, empower consumers and give companies visibility into what personal agents do through their websites, APIs or […]

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