Payments on Fire™

If you're an e-commerce merchant selling across border, you've got to answer a few questions: What methods of payment should you support in each country you sell in? Not every country is as infatuated with cards as is the U.S. And even if customers in those countries are using cards, how do you optimize your authorization rate? If you're not sophisticated about this, your decline rate could exceed 40%, a huge hit. It turns out routing transactions via local acquiring banks is one answer. But how do you do that? Subscription services store card numbers or a tokenized version to initiate periodic payment transactions. They never want to have a card declined because they, honestly, don't want to have to contact customers to request they update their card account info because some portion of those customers are going to decide to cancel little used subscriptions. How does a merchant mitigate those lost payments? Serving the e-commerce needs of merchants operating across borders is a primary focus of payments service provider BlueSnap. In this conversation with BlueSnap CEO Ralph Dangelmaier and Payments on Fire® host George Peabody, you'll hear how multiple discrete steps combine to keep AUTH rates high and costs in line. You'll also hear from Ralph, a respected payments industry veteran, his views on fintechs and the opportunities available to new players in payments. Come to the Payments on Fire® website for: Expanded show notes Relevant links Podcast transcript The complete Payments on Fire® episode catalog The Glenbrook Education schedule

Payment scams and the fraudsters who perpetrate them are everywhere. And as we speed up payments, the ability to send money from one account to another in near real-time, there's a lot to like for users. And for fraudsters. Scammers love it when they convince us to send them money from our own accounts. This is called authorized push payment fraud and it is a growing problem. To shed light on APP fraud, its impact, and some approaches to detecting fraudster coercion and the misdirected payments it causes, join Glenbrook's George Peabody and PJ Rohall, Fraud Subject Matter Expert at Featurespace, a fraud management software company. PJ is also the co-founder of About Fraud.Com, a community site for the fraud management industry. In this episode George and PJ discuss the growth of APP fraud, the range of scam types, and a few techniques to detect and deter it. You'll hear him describe examples of the impact APP fraud has caused on individuals, many least able to weather this kind of financial damage. Psychological damage is real. Then come to the Payments on Fire® website for: Expanded show notes Links to UK Finance reports and Take Five for Fraud resources Podcast transcript The complete Payments on Fire® episode catalog The Glenbrook Education schedule

Financial health and inclusion in the US remain as major concerns and challenges for the nation, the millions who struggle with access to affordable financial services, and payments experts focused in this arena. Join Glenbrook's Erin McCune and Justin Pituch as they speak with a recent panel of expert practitioners in the financial health space: Kimberley Gartner, Arjan Schutte, and Ryan Falvey. Kimberley is Chief Growth Officer at Canary, a company that helps businesses establish emergency relief funds for their employees. Arjan and Ryan both work in the venture capital space; Arjan leads Core Innovation Capital and Ryan heads up Financial Venture Studio. Come to the Payments on Fire® website for: Expanded show notes Podcast transcript The complete Payments on Fire® episode catalog The Glenbrook Education schedule

This podcast with Mimi Joy explores consumer financial wellbeing in the US and initiatives to improve access to quality financial services for low and moderate income Americans. Mimi shares her perspective as Head of Partnerships at the Financial Health Network, a leading authority in the space. Topics discussed include: The current state of the financial health landscape Research on the effect of the pandemic on low and moderate income consumers and their financial wellbeing New approaches to serving the needs of vulnerable consumers Key financial health lessons for payments professionals Come to the Payments on Fire® website for: Expanded show notes Podcast transcript The complete Payments on Fire® episode catalog The Glenbrook Education schedule

Multiplayer fintech takes payments services to levels of depth and breadth not seen before. The breadth of payments platform services enables other fintechs to bring comprehensive capabilities to their customers. Listen to this conversation with Modern Treasury's CEO Dimitri Dadiomov, its Chief Growth Officer Rachel Pike, and Glenbrook's Erin McCune. You'll hear: The creation story of Modern Treasury and the market conditions that proved demand The central role of enterprise payments operations How payments as a service is evolving as a business How its customers deploy its range of capabilities Why ACH is taking off in the fintech space Come to the Payments on Fire® website for: Expanded show notes Video Podcast transcript The complete Payments on Fire® episode catalog The Glenbrook Education schedule

In this wide ranging Payments on Fire® episode featuring gateway provider NMI, you'll hear how payment industry roles continue to evolve as tech and consumer preferences change. Topics covered include: The evolution of touchless payments from QR to Tap on Phone NFC transactions What a gateway does How a white label provider sells and who uses its services What an ISV needs to think about when considering the role of payments facilitator COVID-19's impact on merchant and consumer payments Take a listen to this conversation with Kyle Pexton, president and CFO of NMI and Nick Starai, NMI's Chief Strategy Officer as they talk with Glenbrook's George Peabody about the arrival of the NextGen ISO and how NMI is helping them, their bank customers, ISVs, and VARs get SMBs into payments acceptance. Come to the Payments on Fire® website for: Expanded show notes Podcast transcript The complete Payments on Fire® episode catalog The Glenbrook Education schedule

Fast payments will move the US payments market. But to get there, we need fintech to expose those capabilities. Zelle, the RTP Network, Same Day ACH, push to card, and eventually FedNow all need providers that connect up to those rails. For an enterprise or its software developers, a single integration to all sure would be easier. In this Payments on Fire® episode featuring Dwolla, you'll hear: A practitioner's view of how ACH and RTP differ and are being used? Why B2B digital payments are growing and what you need to know what's enabling that growth Learn what a provider must do to bring multiple payment systems to its enterprise customers. It isn't simple Take a listen to this conversation with Dwolla's Brady Harris and Adam Steenhard as they talk about realtime access to fast payments (and more) with Glenbrook's Elizabeth McQuerry and George Peabody. Come to the Payments on Fire® website for: Expanded show notes Video Podcast transcript The complete Payments on Fire® episode catalog The Glenbrook Education schedule

Curious about how fast payments systems like Zelle, the RTP Network, and FedNow work? Many fast payments use cases aren't about speed. Find out why. Fast payment systems are national "must haves" around the world. Take a listen to this conversation with Glenbrook's Elizabeth McQuerry and ACI Worldwide's Craig Ramsey. Come to the Payments on Fire® website for: Expanded show notes Video snapshot Podcast transcript The complete Payments on Fire® episode catalog The Glenbrook Education schedule

Glenbrook's fintech payment series continues with this look at Veem in a deep convo with Marwan Forzley, CEO. Curious about how fintechs solve client problems? Fintechs aren't just about payments; they blend commerce enablement into their offerings The payment solution that solves the data problems - as well as moves the money - provides the most benefit to the customer Did you know that fintechs don't do anything new? They just do it better. Take a listen to George and Veem's CEO Marwan Forzley as they talk about how Veem built its international payment network for small and medium business (SMB) customers. Listen to Marwan describe the commerce services and integrations Veem has done to drive traffic over the network. Come to the website for: Expanded show notes Podcast transcript The complete catalog of Payments on Fire® episodes The Glenbrook Education schedule

Curious about how fintechs solve client problems? Fintechs aren't just about payments; they blend commerce enablement into their offerings The payment solution that solves the data problems - as well as moves the money - provides the most benefit to the customer Did you know that fintechs don't do anything new? They just do it better. Take a listen to George and RoadSync's CEO Robin Gregg as they take a deeper look into how fintech's solve specific problems for specific industry segments. RoadSync provides payments and commerce services to the logistics and trucking industries. Come to the website for: Expanded show notes Video clip Podcast transcript The Payments on Fire® episode catalog The Glenbrook Education schedule