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Involuntary Churn: Measured and Managed
In our previous post on involuntary churn, The Payments Playbook for Challenging Churn, we explored the challenges faced by business in managing recurring billing operations. The post explored various tactics to manage and reduce involuntary churn,...
Buy Now, Pay Later: Where Have the Months Gone?
At the beginning of the year, I hypothesized that four issues needed to be addressed for sustained Buy Now, Pay Later success. What happened this year? To what extent did we mature our BNPL market? Let's take a look at 2023 progress: Issue 1: BNPL...
Payments Post #6: Glenbrook’s August Roundup
Chris Uriarte and Justin Pituch put their heads together to sift through the August news in search of a broader storyline. Looking back at headlines surrounding merchant surcharging, fee backlash, and Adyen’s lackluster H1 performance, we noted an...
Payments Post #5: Glenbrook’s June/July Roundup
Payments Post was on vacation last month; your editor was making his way from Berkeley, CA to a new home in Chicago, IL. But now that I’m settled in the Windy City, I’m happy to present this “double feature” post, covering developments in both June...
On the journey to fast and low-cost cross-border payments (not yet at the destination)
Impetus to improve cross-border payments Whether you are deep in the cross-border payments space or have sent (or tried to send) a cross-border payment, you know these are not as easy as paying for your morning coffee or sending money to a local...
Fast Payments, Rich Data
FedNow – the Federal Reserve’s new instant payment service – went live earlier this summer, and it could signal big changes ahead for B2B payments. Why? It comes down to data. B2B payments are rife with data challenges. In my last post, I described...
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How Do We Regulate Payments When It’s AI Agents Spending the Money?
"AI agents are moving from giving advice to taking action – for payments, the consequences are immediate and can be difficult to reverse. Financial institutions have long built trust around knowing who is behind a transaction; agentic AI adds a layer between the human...
With Swift, RBC and TD, a New Era for International Money Transfers Arrives in Canada
"People in Canada receiving money from family, friends or businesses abroad will get a significantly better experience as Canadian financial institutions go live with a new consumer payments initiative from Swift. The initiative sets a new standard for international...
TCH: Use Case Evolution Is One Factor in RTP’s Instant Payments Growth
"Business-to-business payments were one of the first use cases for instant payments when the RTP network from The Clearing House Payments Co. LLC debuted in 2017. The use cases are evolving, with digital wallets—like PayPal and Venmo—now being the largest use cases on...
MoonPay Launches PayBox, a Payment Vault for Claude and ChatGPT That Turns Prompts Into Payments
"MoonPay has launched PayBox, the first payment vault built for AI that lets a person's AI agent transact on the open internet without leaving the conversation. Anyone can now connect PayBox to Claude or ChatGPT through a custom connector and give their AI the ability...
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