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Glenbrook Innovation

Episode 288 - The First 25 Years of Glenbrook - Fanning the Flames with our Founders

For Glenbrook's 25th Anniversary, we speak with the three founding partners - Carol Coye Benson, Scott Loftesness, and Allen Weinberg - to celebrate the progress of the industry and the firm. Listen in as they recall the early days of the firm, discuss how Glenbrook’s strategy work expanded to form our education and global practices, consider the evolution of the “payments professional”, and reflect on payments industry shifts over their years both in and out of Glenbrook.
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Splitit Backs Google's Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP), Advancing Agentic Commerce with Card-Linked Installments

Yahoo Finance-Cision

“Splitit, the global leader in card-linked installment payments, announced its backing of Google’s Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP), an open standard that provides the building blocks for agentic commerce, enabling AI agents to complete purchases on behalf of consumers. Built with Shopify, Target, Walmart, Etsy, and Wayfair, and endorsed by dozens of major players, UCP is […]
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Nacha’s Top 50 ACH Originators and Receivers of 2025 Now Available; Total ACH Payment Volume in 2025 Exceeded 42 Billion

Nacha

“The Nacha Top 50 rankings of financial institution originators and receivers of ACH payments for 2025 are now available. Among originating financial institutions, the Top 50 handled ACH volume of 30.7 billion payments last year, up 4.7% from 2024. They accounted for 91.4% of the ACH Network’s total commercial payments volume. The Top 50 receiving […]
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