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Payments On Fire is the industry’s leading resource center for payments professionals. Here, you’ll find the resources and thought leadership that only Glenbrook’s experienced team can provide. Curated news stories, insightful opinion papers, provocative podcasts, and more – it’s all the thinking you need to stay competitive in a dynamic payments world.

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Payments on Fire Podcasts

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

BofA AI and Digital Innovations Fuel 30 Billion Client Interactions

PR Newswire

“AI-driven solutions, global payments, and personalized financial planning tools have propelled Bank of America clients’ digital engagement to record levels. Clients connected with their finances approximately 30 billion times last year through a combination of digital logins and proactive alerts, marking a 14% year-over-year increase. More consumers and businesses moving money digitally: Zelle adoption reached 25 […]

New Report Finds AI-Generated Identities Are Already Passing Digital Onboarding at Scale

Business Wire

“Identity verification systems across Latin America’s digital banking ecosystems are entering a structural risk phase as generative AI enables synthetic identities to be created faster than verification infrastructure can adapt, according to a new threat intelligence report released by DuckDuckGoose. The report, When Identity Becomes Generatable, analyzes generative AI and finds that identity creation has shifted […]

Agentic Payments: A New Challenge for Europe’s Payments Ecosystem

Osborne Clarke

“The rapid development of AI-agent-initiated payment models signals a pivotal shift for the European payments ecosystem. While current implementations are pilot-based within the EU, market signals suggest production deployments are targeted as early as 2026. As AI-agent technology moves from the ‘back office’ to the ‘front office’ for payment institutions, the relevance of regulatory requirements […]

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