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Payments Partners: The Identity Industry
Time to Read: 9 minutes The problem of knowing who to trust on an insecure, anonymous network has concerned me since I founded an ISP in 1995. With thousands of subscribers, it was the first time I confronted bad online behavior. As a payments...
The Payments Playbook for Challenging Churn
By: Justin Pituch and Drew Edmond Time to Read: 7 minutes If you read Apple’s Q3 earnings report, you may have noticed that the company’s Services business has grown to $19 billion in quarterly revenue. That’s a staggering number, and it represents...
CBDCs or Stablecoins? There’s space for both
By Bethany May Time to Read: 6 minutes Central Banks and Private Sector Issuers continue to develop their respective digital currencies, CBDCs and stablecoins. While this could be perceived as a type of competition, realistically both stablecoins...
Ubiquity, Same Day ACH and other Fast Payments
Time to Read: 3 minutes It’s truly remarkable how this decades-old, ANSI based, batch based payment method is slowly but surely finding renewed vigor in today’s world of “fast payments.” Clients at Glenbrook continue to inquire about how ACH can...
Will It Still Be the Payments Industry Without Allen Weinberg?
First things first – no, this is not one of those April Fool’s gags. It’s a bittersweet day at Glenbrook as we bid farewell to the last of our founders. Following the retirements of co-founders Scott Loftesness and Carol Coye Benson in the last few...
Making Digital Access Work in eGovernment Payments: Principles of Pro-Poor Design
Time to Read: 7 minutes Highlights: Design for low-income citizens is essential for successful eGovernment services Glenbrook has identified pro-poor implementation success factors: channel selection, payment methods, fee structure, and education...
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Visa Used Mythos to Hunt for Bugs in Its Own Payment Network, Then Open-Sourced the Harness That Made It Possible [Video]
"Visa aimed Anthropic's Claude Mythos at the infrastructure behind billions of daily transactions, a network that spans more than 200 countries and territories, moves money in roughly 160 currencies, and connects nearly 5 billion payment credentials to more than 175...
Citi Is Now Live With a Trade Digitization Solution Integrating Supply Chain Solutions
"Citi has launched Citi Consolidate™, a new invoice processing solution powered by Infor Nexus, designed to digitize trade processes for buyers and their suppliers. Citi Consolidate™ streamlines invoice approval, purchase order, and payables processes, creating an...
Is Agentic Commerce the Future of AI-Powered Shopping?
"Right now, AI shopping is essentially decision support. The human customer drives the process, with the chatbot as an advisor. The vision is that AI agents will go shopping for you, and act as your autonomous representatives in the market: negotiating with suppliers,...
Stablecoins Offer Limited Retail Payment Appeal in UK, FCA Says
"FCA participants identified cross border payments as the strongest current use case for stablecoins, particularly in markets with limited access to U.S. dollars. The regulator said UK consumers have little incentive to switch payment methods, though merchants could...
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