2021 will be remembered as the year that cryptocurrencies become a full time presence on Wall Street and a top agenda item at the world’s central banks.
The potential for cryptocurrencies to digitally enable the financial lives of world’s 1.7 billion unbanked is gaining interest as well as increasing incumbent concern.
In our payments education workshops, we make the point that today's fintechs rarely do something entirely new. At the macro level, our activities and the transactions they produce haven't changed. We buy food and clothing. We pay rent.
GPay is Google's app for payments, financial services, rewards, and, is expanding its capabilities, its partnerships, and its ambitions. Join Glenbrook's George Peabody and Yvette Bohanan as they talk GPay with Steve Klebe, Google's head of GPay business development and Google's Processor and Partnerships work.
For a front row seat on payment innovation you have plenty of choices. Yes, Stripe and Square are based in the tech hotbed of the Bay Area and it's tempting to stare at their success. But a look around the world reveals the evolutionary breadth of how payments are made, regulated, and brought to market. India and China alone reveal how remarkably different approaches can scale to enormous dimensions.
2020 has been an active period for payments innovation. COVID-19 has been a forcing function for digital payments across multiple payment domains. "Touchless" and "contactless" payments are now common themes of retailer advertising.
The global spread of digital payments gets a huge boost from giants like Google. Google's Google Pay is far more than just a wallet, and the subject of this Payments on Fire® episode with Steve Klebe.
Payments on Fire® usually focuses on a single topic, typically a fintech company and the business or personal challenges it addresses. In this episode, we take another direction by bringing together three fintech leaders to talk about their company offerings, how they connect up to payments, and some of the obstacles they've faced.
The U.K. and the EU take a very different approach to payments industry evolution than here in the States; the former directed by government mandate, the latter by marketplace dynamics and the lighter touch of regulators. But both are responding, at different speeds, to the need of fintechs and enterprises for access to bank-based data and services.
Cross-border B2B payments are frustrating, time consuming, and expensive, especially for small and medium businesses. To dig into why and what's being done to overcome those concerns, join George and Marwan Forzley, CEO of Veem, for an explanation.
