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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

Circle Targets 40 New Markets as Stablecoin Demand Grows Globally

CoinDesk

“Circle [USDC], plans to expand into about 50 emerging and developing markets as demand for digital dollars increases. CEO Jeremy Allaire told Reuters that businesses and individuals across Southeast Asia, Latin America and the Middle East are increasingly turning to stablecoins for payments and other financial services. “We’re kind of going through an inflection point…a […]

Matera Launches Matera Workspace, Giving Banks and Credit Unions the Shortest Path to Offer Digital Assets Alongside Fiat

Business Wire

“Matera announced the launch of Matera Workspace, an extensible application platform that allows banks and credit unions to offer stablecoins, crypto and other digital assets side by side with fiat – without replacing their core banking system. At the center of Workspace is Digital Twin, Matera’s real-time ledger already running instant payments in production today. […]

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