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Blockchain Digital Currency Global Payments Stablecoins

Episode 289 - Stablecoin Infrastructure in Emerging Markets, with Chris Maurice, Yellow Card

In this episode, Chris Maurice, the CEO and co-founder of Yellow Card, joins Drew Edmond to explore how stablecoins are transforming global payments, especially in emerging markets, by addressing liquidity issues, reducing costs, improving compliance transparency, and enabling faster cross-border transactions. Listen in as they highlight the challenges of legacy infrastructure, regulatory evolution, interoperability, and the evolving role of banks and technology platforms in this ecosystem.
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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Payments News

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An Update on the Move to New Payments Platform [Australia]

Australian Payments Plus

“In this update, we share the latest on payday super, key focus areas, industry progress towards the modernisation of A2A payments and the proposed bulk solution. The move to faster, more efficient superannuation payments is underway, with payday super legislation taking effect in July 2026.   Real-time super payments via the NPP will play a central […]
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Companies

Mitsubishi Adopts JP Morgan’s 24/7 Blockchain Payments

Ledger Insights

“Japan’s Mitsubishi Corporation is the country’s first firm to adopt JP Morgan’s Kinexys Digital Payments to enable instant cross border payments 24/7. The company will take advantage of the programmability of the blockchain-based deposit account to initially move US dollars when needed between its Singapore, London and New York subsidiaries. The key advantage is there is no […]
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Companies

Square Auto-Enables Bitcoin Payments for Millions of US Businesses

CoinCentral

“Square has started automatically enabling bitcoin payments for millions of eligible US sellers, marking a broader push to bring digital asset payments into everyday commerce. The rollout allows small businesses already using Square’s payment system to accept bitcoin without additional setup, with transactions converted to US dollars at checkout by default. The company said the […]
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