Payments on Fire™

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• Episode 303 - Fanning the Flames: Every Payment, Every Environment, All at Once

  October 1, 2026 · 56 min

  In 2025, Glenbrook's Drew Edmond hosted a series on payments performance optimization - how merchants get more good transactions approved and lose fewer customers to failed payments. Since then, Drew has spent most of his time inside…

• Episode 302 - Catching Up on the Capital Markets, with Timothy Chiodo, UBS

  September 16, 2026 · 1 hr 2 min

  About a year ago, we chatted with with Tim Chiodo of UBS and Chris Kim of Capital Group about the investment side of payments. It's been a pretty volatile 12-months in the equity market since then - well-timed for Bryan Derman to welcome…

• Episode 301 - Casting Light on the Digital Euro, with Nicola Branzoli, Banca d'Italia

  September 2, 2026 · 54 min

  As with many institutions, the European Central Bank is considering how to modernize central bank money. One way to do this is to issue a retail CBDC or central bank digital currency. This would make a digital version of central bank money…

• Episode 300 - Reflecting on 12 Years of Payments on Fire

  August 19, 2026 · 1 hr 9 min

  2026 is a milestone year for Glenbrook as we celebrate the 25th anniversary of the firm. We also find ourselves airing the 300th episode of our Payments on Fire podcast - founded by George Peabody in 2014, nurtured by Yvette Bohanan, and…

• Episode 299 - The Evolving Payments Regulatory Environment in the European Union, with Scott McInnes, Bird & Bird

  August 5, 2026 · 1 hr 0 min

  Glenbrook's Chris Uriarte and Samantha Gordon continue their global payments regulation series with Scott McInnes, Partner at Bird & Bird, focusing on the European Union.  Tune in as they explore the EU's highly regulated landscape, the…

• Episode 298 - The Patchwork of Payments Regulation in the US, with Duncan Douglass, Alston & Bird LLP

  July 22, 2026 · 60 min

  Kicking off a series of regulation-related episodes, Duncan Douglass, payments attorney and Partner at Alston & Bird LLP, joins Chris Uriarte and Samantha Gordon to turn the confusing and sometimes tedious topic of US payments regulation…

• Episode 297 - A New Era for Card Issuing, with Nikil Konduru, Lithic

  July 8, 2026 · 43 min

  Drew Edmond and Chris Uriarte chat with Nikhil Konduru, Chief Commercial Officer at Lithic, to discuss modern card issuing infrastructure and where the market is headed. They break down the issuing stack and discuss issuer-side tools to…

• Episode 296 - Fanning the Flames - Beyond Borders: Navigating Your Global Payments Strategy

  June 24, 2026 · 44 min

  Going global with your payments strategy requires far more than choosing a single payment provider: companies must weigh local acquiring versus cross-border acquiring, country-by-country payment preferences, entity structure, tax…