Payments on Fire™

Glenbrook Partners, LLC
Payments on Fire™

Podcasts from Glenbrook Partners on the latest developments in payments and fintech. Featuring interviews with opinion leaders, Glenbrook's own take on emerging technologies and industry trends, other news and views on this dynamic industry.

  1. Episode 259 - Using Real-Time Merchant Intelligence to Enhance Transaction Visibility, with Oban MacTavish, Spade

    6 DAYS AGO

    Episode 259 - Using Real-Time Merchant Intelligence to Enhance Transaction Visibility, with Oban MacTavish, Spade

    “Payments Performance Optimization” is a pretty broad term, and it might mean different things to different people.  In a series of Payments on Fire episodes this year, Glenbrook’s Drew Edmond will be talking to guests who are approaching payments optimization from a variety of different angles, with a focus on primarily online, card not present merchants.  At the end of the day, a merchant wants the maximum number of good transactions to be authorized successfully. It sounds so simple. But is anything in payments really simple? In this episode, Oban MacTavish, CEO and Co-founder of Spade, joins Drew to explore this issue by focusing on merchant data, and how issuers make decisions about card transactions.

    40 min
  2. Episode 258 - Giving the Green Light to Surcharging, with Emily Tsitrian, Yeeld

    12 MAR

    Episode 258 - Giving the Green Light to Surcharging, with Emily Tsitrian, Yeeld

    As legal and regulatory restrictions have become relaxed in recent years, we’ve been noting the increasing prevalence of surcharges on payment cards here in the U.S.  Perhaps it was inevitable that the practice would become more commonplace in our market, which is known around the world for relatively high rates of card interchange and a relatively light touch in financial services regulation. Surcharging is a tricky issue with a lot of different stakeholder perspectives to consider. In this episode, Emily Tsitrian, co-founder of Yeeld, joins Bryan Derman and Drew Edmond to share  industry insights on this emerging practice and how businesses can best implement surcharging while staying compliant.

    30 min
  3. Episode 257 - Scams, Stings, and Swindles in Payments - Catching up with David Maimon, SentiLink

    27 FEB

    Episode 257 - Scams, Stings, and Swindles in Payments - Catching up with David Maimon, SentiLink

    In 2024, to our great delight, we had a conversation with David Maimon, Head of Fraud Insights at SentiLink. We’re fortunate to welcome David back for a quarterly series this year to check in on payments fraud writ large - to better understand what’s happening and why. Listen in to this episode as Yvette and David discuss the evolution and resurgence of check fraud, the increasing sophistication of fraud rings targeting banks and the government, and the adaptation of new technologies, including Generative AI, for criminal activity.

    36 min

  4. 12 FEB

    Episode 256 - Banking on Fintech, with Anthony Sharett, Pathward

    In this episode, Anthony Sharett, President of Pathward, joins Glenbrook’s Bryan Derman to share insights on the evolving partner banking space, the importance of risk and compliance frameworks, and Pathward's mission of financial inclusion. Tune in as they also discuss potential policy and regulatory changes due to implications of major discrepancies in the banking-as-a-service arrangement between fintech platform Synapse and its banking partners.

    45 min
  5. Episode 255 - Glenbrook’s On-Demand Learning Launch and Behind the Scenes with the Payments Education Team

    29 JAN

    Episode 255 - Glenbrook’s On-Demand Learning Launch and Behind the Scenes with the Payments Education Team

    In this episode, Debbie Bartoo and Russ Jones join Yvette Bohanan to discuss Glenbrook’s focus on payments education and share some of the fun and fascinating things that have happened in facilitating workshops for 34,000 (and counting) payments geeks. Listen in to hear behind-the-scenes insights from their workshop experiences and highlights from the latest offering, On-Demand Learning, as Glenbrook continues to evolve payments education with the changing industry landscape.

    32 min
  6. Episode 254 - Reshaping How We Move Money with Booshan Rengachari, Finzly

    16 JAN

    Episode 254 - Reshaping How We Move Money with Booshan Rengachari, Finzly

    Booshan Rengachari, CEO of Finzly, joins Glenbrook’s Elizabeth McQuerry and Simon Skinner to discuss how software, fast payments, and open banking are reshaping the banking industry and the way we think about financial services. Tune in as they cover the challenges of modernizing legacy banking systems, the rise of fast payments, and the potential of open banking to integrate banking services into everyday life. The episode also explores fraud prevention in fast payment systems and the evolving role of banks amidst competition from fintech companies.

    45 min
  7. Episode 253 - Glenbrook Partners: 2024 Payments Industry Trends Wrap Up

    05/12/2024

    Episode 253 - Glenbrook Partners: 2024 Payments Industry Trends Wrap Up

    The Glenbrook partners reflect on key trends and challenges in the payments industry that shaped 2024 - from generative AI, open banking, the evolving regulatory landscape, and the rise of fast payment systems worldwide. And you can't get the Glenbrook team in a "room" without discussing ongoing fraud implications, orchestration in merchant payments, and the progress of tokenization. Tune in to hear insights from our industry experts on these themes and more as we wrap up the year and look towards 2025.

    51 min
  8. Episode 252 - Testing, Testing, 123: Payments has evolved in the past 20 years, what about payments testing? with Steve Semelsberger, Testlio

    20/11/2024

    Episode 252 - Testing, Testing, 123: Payments has evolved in the past 20 years, what about payments testing? with Steve Semelsberger, Testlio

    Real end-to-end testing requires real-world transactions. Sometimes that’s not too difficult to do if you are implementing payments in your own country. But step outside your border, and it gets a bit harder.  People new to payments turn to logical solutions when faced with this problem. Can you call the acquirer? Won’t they have test accounts for us to use? (Probably not.) Can’t we just drip a few transactions through with a few live customers to see how it goes? (Sure, but you may wait a long time to run through all the scenarios you would like to see - and there usually isn’t patience for that in a launch environment.) It’s tough, but don’t be discouraged. Mercifully, a subspeciality of payment providers has set out to solve this problem. And that is the focus of this episode. Steve Semelsberger, CEO of Testlio, joins Yvette Bohanan and Drew Edmond to discuss the evolution of quality management alongside payments testing.

    44 min
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    Podcasts from Glenbrook Partners on the latest developments in payments and fintech. Featuring interviews with opinion leaders, Glenbrook's own take on emerging technologies and industry trends, other news and views on this dynamic industry.

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    • Creator
      Glenbrook Partners, LLC
    • Years Active
      2014 - 2025
    • Episodes
      261
    • Rating
      Clean
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      Copyright © 2024 Glenbrook Partners, LLC
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      Payments on Fire™

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