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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

Xero Brings Real-Time Financial Intelligence to Google Gemini

Business Wire

“Xero announced a new integration with Google Gemini, bringing live financial intelligence and Xero data directly into Gemini conversations where many small businesses, accountants and bookkeepers already work. As the first financial management platform to launch a connected app for Gemini, Xero will enable customers to use Gemini to retrieve real-time financial answers, analyze business […]

TNS Helps Businesses Meet Changing Consumer Payment Preferences with 100+ Alternative Payment Methods

Business Wire

“Transaction Network Services (TNS), a global leader in managed network and payment solutions, announced that its payment orchestration platform now supports more than 100 alternative payment methods alongside traditional card schemes, giving businesses in unattended environments, such as parking and self-service, a single connection to support the payment methods their customers increasingly expect.”

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