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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 305 - Fanning the Flames: Glenbrook Answers your Payments Questions

We’ve had over 35,000 professionals complete a Glenbrook workshop, and we constantly hear from participants that they were surprised by how something in the industry works or a specific data point. How people think about payment systems is largely driven by how they use them as an individual consumer, and also influenced by where they sit in their career. One of the goals of our payments workshops is to add clarity to ambiguous industry terminology. We also allow ample time for interactive Q&A, and whether the workshop is in-person or virtual, we hear some questions over and over. In this episode, Debbie Bartoo surfaces some of our most frequently asked workshop questions and lets Russ Jones guide us through the answers.

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.
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Payments News

Canada and the European Union Announce New Alliance for the Future to Create Greater Affordability, Opportunity, and Sovereignty [Fast Payments]

Prime Minister of Canada

“To make life more affordable for their citizens, Canada and the EU announced that Canada and the EU will negotiate: Faster payment systems. They will support connecting Canada and the EU’s instant payment systems to enable Canadians to send money to people and businesses in the EU seamlessly.”

Shopify Puts Checkout Tool Shop Pay Inside AI Agents

Retail Brew

“Shopify announced that AI agents including Claude Duet, Grok Bot, Instinct, and Muse can use Shop Pay to buy items people are searching for on these AI platforms. Merchants don’t have to have Shopify powered stores. Shopify takes credit card information and turns it into an agentic token that looks like a credit card, but […]

Wells Fargo Just Made You Legally Responsible for Every Transaction Your AI Agent Makes

Tech Times

“Wells Fargo updated its Online Access Agreement on November 2, 2026. Wells Fargo’s new agreement defines an “AI Agent” broadly: “any software that takes autonomous, semi-autonomous, or non-autonomous action on behalf of any person or entity” using your online banking credentials. That definition covers everything from an Autopilot bill-payer integrated into your financial app to […]

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