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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.

Payments Views

Examining Risk and Resiliency in Banking Relationships (..and no, we’re not just talking about bank failures)

On Monday a few weeks back, a member of a client’s executive team gave me a call: “We really need to speed up the project to find another bank sponsor.” That was followed by a call from another client later that day: “We’ve been thinking about what it would take to form a relationship with […]
Joanna Wisniecka and Bethany May

Stakeholders Respond to Fraudsters’ Affinity for Instant Payments

A joint post by Joanna Wisniecka and Bethany May Rise in instant payments systems incites rise in fraud Instant payments systems (IPS) are proliferating globally, conferring benefits to economies and ultimately, end users. These systems are making digital payments faster, easily accessible, and in some countries, more affordable than other existing payments methods. As IPS […]
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Payments on Fire Podcasts

Episode 203 - What Big Data Revealed About BNPL Consumers with Kristin Carlson and Zach Tondre, LexisNexis Risk Solutions

BNPL’s rapid ascent has raised questions about its use: Who is choosing to use BNPL? Is it helpful or harmful to consumers’ credit and overall financial well-being? Does it improve financial inclusion? Is it displacing other forms of payment at checkout? A quick online search leads to mixed data points and inconsistent findings, often based on modest sample sizes and extrapolations. To answer these questions, we sat down with Kristin Carlson, Global Products and Analytics Data Scientist, and Zach Tondre, Director of Credit Risk Market Planning at LexisNexis Risk Solutions, who conducted a longitudinal study to obtain insight into these and other questions.
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On Demand Modules

Buy Now, Pay Later: Fundamentals

$149.00

Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) has emerged all over the world as an attractive way to pay for purchases in installments, often interest free. Who are the stakeholders in these new payments systems? What type of customer is most attracted to BNPL methods and what is their experience when they make a purchase? What about when they subsequently make an installment payment? How do merchants view these new methods? And who are the leaders in the US market?

This session provides ways to understand the variation in BNPL payments, how consumers behave with BNPL methods, and where BNPL fits in the payments landscape.

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Buy Now, Pay Later: Under the Hood

$149.00

Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) is hot. The consumer value proposition is straightforward, but how does it work under the hood? What does the value chain and the ecosystem look like for this payment type? Who takes responsibility when something goes wrong? How do they integrate into a merchant’s online checkout flow? What techniques are being used to reach the physical POS?

This session reviews the commonality and differences in the way BNPL systems work, how risk is allocated, and the key assumptions and dependencies underlying this new form of payments.

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Payments News

Fifth Third Announces Acquisition of Rize Money, Inc.

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“Fifth Third Bancorp is pleased to announce the acquisition of Rize Money, Inc., an embedded payments platform that provides payment infrastructure and risk management capabilities to fintechs and other technology companies that want to offer innovative financial products through a single application programming interface.”
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