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Payments on Fire Podcasts

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. 

Episode 301 - Casting Light on the Digital Euro, with Nicola Branzoli, Banca d'Italia

In this episode, Nicola Branzoli, Head of Division for the Digital Euro Regulation, Research, and Technical Support at the Banca d'Italia, joins Glenbrook's Ashley Lannquist and Simon Skinner for an in-depth exploration of the digital euro. Listen in as they cover the objectives and value proposition, design choices and pilot details, and what the digital euro means in the broader European payment context. 
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Payments News

Swift Tests Pay-by-Alias Cross-Border Payments with Global Banks

TNGlobal

“Swift and a group of banks, payment schemes and technology providers are working on a pay-by-alias model intended to make international transfers feel more like domestic instant payments. The initiative would let consumers send money abroad using identifiers such as a mobile phone number, email address or virtual payment address instead of entering a recipient’s […]

Volante Technologies and Circle Advance Stablecoin Payment and Settlement Capabilities for Financial Institutions

Business Wire

“Volante Technologies announced a strategic collaboration with Circle Internet Group, Inc., the issuer of USDC, to help financial institutions integrate stablecoin payment and settlement capabilities into their existing payment operations. Volante is bringing USDC workflows into its AI-powered Payments Platform, enabling financial institutions to evaluate how stablecoin activity can operate alongside existing payment rails, operational […]

Nvidia Launches New Platform for Reining in Rogue AI Agents

TechCrunch

“Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang introduced a toolkit of software and hardware products that add independent security layers around AI agents to ensure they stay within their test environments even if they attempt to break out. The release follows a string of hacking incidents involving AI models from Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, and Meta that bypassed security […]

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