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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 302 - Catching Up on the Capital Markets, with Timothy Chiodo, UBS

About a year ago, we chatted with with Tim Chiodo of UBS and Chris Kim of Capital Group about the investment side of payments. It’s been a pretty volatile 12-months in the equity market since then - well-timed for Bryan Derman to welcome Tim back on the podcast and catch up on the market factors playing into the payments space.  Listen in as they recap the performance of payments stocks, dive into the e-commerce market, provide perspective on the card networks, discuss merchant acquiring growth opportunities, and finish up with a lightning round on emerging technology. 

Episode 301 - Casting Light on the Digital Euro, with Nicola Branzoli, Banca d'Italia

In this episode, Nicola Branzoli, Head of Division for the Digital Euro Regulation, Research, and Technical Support at the Banca d'Italia, joins Glenbrook's Ashley Lannquist and Simon Skinner for an in-depth exploration of the digital euro. Listen in as they cover the objectives and value proposition, design choices and pilot details, and what the digital euro means in the broader European payment context. 
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Payments News

PhonePe Gets Preliminary Approval for UAE Payment Licenses

Investing

“PhonePe said it received in-principle approval from the UAE central bank for two licenses covering retail payment services, card schemes, and stored value facilities. The Walmart-backed digital payments platform said the approval follows initial regulatory due diligence. The company still needs final central bank approval before it can start commercial operations in the Gulf state. […]

Shopify Turns Meta’s Muse Into a Shop Pay Checkout Channel

ContentGrip

“Shopify is partnering with Meta so Muse can use Shop Pay to complete purchases across Shopify stores, giving the personal AI agent a direct checkout path through Shopify’s commerce infrastructure. The partnership makes Shopify’s approach to agentic commerce clearer. As AI assistants become shopping interfaces, Shopify wants its catalog and payment rails to remain underneath […]

The ECB Just Launched a Way to Settle Tokenized Assets Without Stablecoins. What It Means for RLUSD and XRP in Europe.

Yahoo Finance

“The European Central Bank (ECB) has launched a new settlement system called Pontes. The system lets eurozone banks settle trades involving tokenized assets using central bank money instead of stablecoins. Pontes is the ECB’s first live service for tokenized markets, designed to do what Ripple’s RLUSD was meant to do for institutions.”

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