Payments on Fire™

Chris Uriarte, Samantha Gordon, Drew Edmond

Booking Overview

An industry interview and analysis show focused on payments, fintech, regulation, infrastructure, and market trends, typically featuring senior practitioners, executives, and specialist advisors from the payments ecosystem. Credible pitches include fintech founders and executives, payments infrastructure leaders, card-issuing specialists, payments attorneys, and experts with strong cross-border or regulatory expertise; booking difficulty is medium because guests generally need substantial industry authority and practical expertise.

Metrics

Episodes: 300

Frequency: Biweekly

Rating: 4.8/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Unknown

Location: USA

Contact Information

paymentsonfire@glenbrook.com

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Host

Chris Uriarte - Payments and fintech subject-matter expert at Glenbrook Partners who co-hosts discussions on industry developments, technology, and regulation.

Samantha Gordon - Payments and fintech professional at Glenbrook Partners who contributes industry analysis and co-hosts discussions on payments strategy and regulation.

Drew Edmond - Payments and fintech professional at Glenbrook Partners who co-hosts discussions on payment infrastructure, issuing, and global payments strategy.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

medium
Typical Credentials:  
Senior payments or fintech executives, founders, specialized attorneys, and established infrastructure or strategy experts with direct industry experience.
Required Achievements:  
Executive leadership at a payments or fintech company, Deep legal, regulatory, infrastructure, or market expertise, Development or oversight of significant payments products, platforms, or strategies

Recent Guest Discussions

Duncan Douglass - US Payments Regulators, Interchange Litigation, Debit Interchange Caps, Merchant Settlements, Card Competition Legislation, State-level Rules, Surcharging, Stablecoins, And Agentic Commerce.

Nikhil Konduru - Modern Card-issuing Infrastructure, Authorization Performance, Fraud And Servicing Costs, Cross-border Economics, Agentic Commerce, Liability, And Intent Data.

Recent Topics

Card Issuing, Payment Regulation, Cross Border Payments, Fintech, Payments

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
Payments on Fire™
:

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

July 22, 2026

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 into an entertaining and enlightening update. The conversation begins with who actually regulates payments in the US and how US payments oversight differs from the UK and EU, then flows into developments on current regulatory topics: Ongoing Reg II/Durbin li...

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

July 08, 2026

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 improve authorization outcomes, reduce fraud and servicing costs, and increase transparency. The conversation also covers cross-border approval and economics, and explores agentic commerce via Nikhil's "Intent Toll Booth" thesis: liability drives control, issu...

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

June 24, 2026

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 implications, compliance requirements, authorization performance, currency handling, and provider coverage. In this episode, Chris Uriarte joins Glenbrook colleagues Samantha Gordon, Simon Skinner, and Drew Edmond to explore the complexities and potential benefits fo...

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