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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 289 - Stablecoin Infrastructure in Emerging Markets, with Chris Maurice, Yellow Card

In this episode, Chris Maurice, the CEO and co-founder of Yellow Card, joins Drew Edmond to explore how stablecoins are transforming global payments, especially in emerging markets, by addressing liquidity issues, reducing costs, improving compliance transparency, and enabling faster cross-border transactions. Listen in as they highlight the challenges of legacy infrastructure, regulatory evolution, interoperability, and the evolving role of banks and technology platforms in this ecosystem.

Episode 288 - The First 25 Years of Glenbrook - Fanning the Flames with our Founders

For Glenbrook's 25th Anniversary, we speak with the three founding partners - Carol Coye Benson, Scott Loftesness, and Allen Weinberg - to celebrate the progress of the industry and the firm. Listen in as they recall the early days of the firm, discuss how Glenbrook’s strategy work expanded to form our education and global practices, consider the evolution of the “payments professional”, and reflect on payments industry shifts over their years both in and out of Glenbrook.
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Payments News

Visa: Earning Consumer Trust in the Age of Agentic Commerce

Visa

“Visa conducted research to understand how consumers are adapting to the rise of agentic commerce: the emerging world where AI acts on their behalf when shopping and buying. This report summarizes the results of that research covering the United States, Australia and New Zealand. Across all three markets, consumers show striking consistency: most are already […]

InComm Payments and SKUx Partner to Provide Innovative Digital Payment Solutions for Humanitarian Aid and Other Emerging Markets

InComm Payments

“InComm Payments and SKUx announced a strategic partnership to revolutionize digital payment distribution. The partnership is poised to rapidly advance the opportunity for a diverse set of organizations to distribute real-time, branded digital payments with precision controls at the item level, ensuring donated or promoted funds are spent at the right time and for the […]

Mojaloop Foundation’s Global Partner Program Expands with Addition of Four Industry Leaders

Mojaloop

“The Mojaloop Foundation announced that four influential organizations have joined its Global Partner Program: Finternet, the Global Finance & Technology Network (GFTN), Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) and Visa. These partners bring extensive experience and domain expertise that will further empower the Mojaloop Foundation’s mission to advance inclusive instant payment systems (IIPS) worldwide. The Mojaloop Foundation […]
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