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Mid-Year Payments Check-In: Revisiting Our 2026 Predictions
The Glenbrook team is taking stock in June 2026 to see how the payments trends predictions from our January Payments on Fire episode are holding up.
The Missing Context Layer in Agentic Commerce: Part 3
Glenbrook's Drew Edmond explores the specific implications for the payments and agentic commerce industry: how discovery changes when agents mediate it, how payment selection shifts upstream, how merchants need to prepare differently across categories, and who ultimately controls the agent layer.
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Episode 300 - Reflecting on 12 Years of Payments on Fire
2026 is a milestone year for Glenbrook as we celebrate the 25th anniversary of the firm. We also find ourselves airing the 300th episode of our Payments on Fire podcast - founded by George Peabody in 2014, nurtured by Yvette Bohanan, and now continued on through the hosting efforts of most of the team.
We thought there would be no better way to mark the 12 year achievement - and pay respect to what George and Yvette built - than to revisit the journey with clips from the first 299 episodes. From early episodes on digital currency and AI, to fast payments evolution and financial inclusion efforts (and how could we leave out tokenization), listen in as Bryan Derman and Jill Wurst guide you through significant moments in the podcast’s history.
Episode 299 - The Evolving Payments Regulatory Environment in the European Union, with Scott McInnes, Bird & Bird
In this Payments on Fire episode, Glenbrook’s Chris Uriarte and Samantha Gordon continue their global payments regulation series with Scott McInnes, Partner at Bird & Bird, focusing on the European Union.
Tune in as they explore the EU’s highly regulated landscape, the challenges of inconsistent national enforcement across 27 member states, and developments on current regulatory topics.
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U.S. Faster Payments Council Report Evaluates Emerging Approaches to Cross-Border Payment Interoperability
EIN Presswire
“The U.S. Faster Payments Council (FPC) announced the publication of a report, Interoperability: Bridging the Cross-Border Gap in a Faster Payments World, developed by the FPC Cross-Border Payments Work Group, sponsored by Mastercard. The report examines the end-to-end cross-border payment journey through the lens of interoperability, exploring why advances in faster payments, ISO 20022 adoption, […]
Swift Accepts Community Request to Extend Structured Address Migration for ISO 20022 Payment Messages
Swift
“Swift will apply a controlled extension of Standards Release 2026: Swift will defer all payments changes. For the structured address requirement, Swift over the coming weeks will consult with banks, central banks, and payment market infrastructures as well as with market practice groups and corporates to define the optimal timing and approach. It will provide […]
Visa Expands Support for its Clients and the Industry as Organisations Navigate New AI Era of Cybersecurity
Visa
“Visa announced enhancements to its cybersecurity portfolio to help organisations identify and fix vulnerabilities more effectively. Unveiling the next evolution of the Visa Vulnerability Agentic Harness (VVAH), its open-source, model-agnostic framework, Visa is helping organisations significantly reduce the Mean Time to Adapt, the time between discovery and resolution of attack paths, with some resolutions shrinking […]
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