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Payments on Fire Podcasts

Episode 304 - Fanning the Flames: Meta Muse, Instinct, and the Current State of Agentic Commerce

Glenbrook's Chris Uriarte and Drew Edmond revisit the state of agentic commerce, exploring emerging consumer interfaces like Instinct and Meta Muse, access to merchant catalogs and data, and the challenges of turning agent-driven shopping into actual transactions. They also share their firsthand experiences making an agentic purchase through Meta Muse, and the industry complexities that still need addressed.

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.
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Payments News

Huntington Bank Introduces The 1866 Studio, an AI-Powered Small Business Operating System Built with Google Cloud

PR Newswire

“The Huntington National Bank announced The 1866 Studio, a new AI-powered operating system built with Gemini platform, Google Cloud’s AI platform. Named for the year Huntington was founded, The 1866 Studio honors the bank’s legacy of empowering businesses by bringing together business guidance, financial intelligence, digital tools and human expertise into a single, connected experience […]

Euronet and Fireblocks Power the Next Era of Mainstream Payments with Stablecoin-Funded Card Issuing

GlobeNewswire

“Euronet and Fireblocks announced an extension of their partnership to bring stablecoins into card issuing. Under the expanded collaboration, banks, fintechs and other financial institutions can seamlessly launch their own stablecoin-funded card programs on Euronet’s Ren and CoreCard issuing platforms, with Fireblocks providing the embedded wallet infrastructure that holds and moves the underlying stablecoin balances, […]

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