PAYMENTS ON FIRE RESOURCE CENTER

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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

Venmo Launches Receipt Scanning Feature to Split Bills by Item

PayPal Newsroom

“Nobody has ever finished a group dinner excited to do the math. With Venmo’s new receipt scanning feature, nobody has to. In the same app people already use to split the bill with friends, they can now scan a receipt, and Venmo helps itemize it. They can assign each item to whoever ordered it, Venmo […]

Not All Stablecoins Will Follow GENIUS Reserve Asset Requirements

Bank Policy Institute

“Stablecoins are digital tokens designed to maintain a stable value relative to a reference currency, predominantly the U.S. dollar. The outstanding amount of these instruments grew significantly in recent years before leveling off at around $300 billion in 2026. In July 2025, Congress passed the GENIUS Act to establish a legal framework for “payment stablecoins” […]

Sage Partners with Adyen and Mastercard to Deliver Business Accounts with Debit Cards for Small Businesses

Adyen

“Sage is developing financial services that bring business account, debit card, payment and reconciliation capabilities into the software small businesses use to manage their finances.  Adyen will provide Banking-as-a-Service infrastructure and onboarding for Sage’s first implementation in France.  Mastercard will serve as Sage’s card network partner, supporting the debit card capabilities within the service.”

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