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Payments on Fire Podcasts

Episode 296 - Fanning the Flames - Beyond Borders: Navigating Your Global Payments Strategy

Going global with your payments strategy requires far more than choosing a single payment provider: companies must weigh local acquiring versus cross-border acquiring, country-by-country payment preferences, entity structure, tax implications, compliance requirements, authorization performance, currency handling, and provider coverage. In this episode, Chris Uriarte joins Glenbrook colleagues Samantha Gordon, Simon Skinner, and Drew Edmond to explore the complexities and potential benefits for merchants and platforms to consider when expanding payments globally.
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Payments News

U.S. Faster Payments Council Publishes White Paper on ERP-Embedded Instant Payments

EIN Presswire

“The U.S. Faster Payments Council announced the publication of a new white paper, From Bottleneck to Command Center: Embedding Instant Payments in Enterprise Resource Planning, developed by the FPC Business Benefits for B2B Instant Payments Work Group. The white paper explores how enterprise resource planning systems are evolving from traditional financial management platforms into payment command […]

Bottomline CFO Suite Unlocks Stablecoins for Corporate Finance

Bottomline

Bottomline, a global leader in business payments, announced an expansion of its Bottomline CFO Suite, enabling finance teams to access and view stablecoin payments within existing payment and cash management workflows. The new capability helps enterprise and mid-market organizations explore stablecoin payments within the same controls, visibility, and governance frameworks they use to run corporate […]

Is China’s Digital Yuan Becoming a Settlement Tool? The Geopolitics of Monetary Hedging

Modern Diplomacy

“From 1 January 2026, China introduced a new management framework that moves the e-CNY towards “digital deposit money.” Commercial banks must pay interest on e-CNY wallet balances under prevailing deposit-rate rules, incorporate those balances into asset-liability management, and protect them through deposit insurance. The framework also places e-CNY operations within reserve-requirement calculations. These changes give […]

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