Payments on Fire™

Chris Uriarte

paymentsonfire@glenbrook.com

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Booking Overview

Payments on Fire is Glenbrook Partners’ payments-and-fintech show featuring industry leaders discussing how emerging payment technologies affect performance, risk, and regulations. For PR pros, it’s a strong venue to place executives and technical experts from major issuers, acquirers, processors, and fintech platforms who can translate payment strategy into actionable insights.

Metrics

Episodes: 296

Frequency: Irregular

Rating: 4.8/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Male

Location: USA

Contact Information

paymentsonfire@glenbrook.com

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Host

Chris Uriarte - Chris Uriarte is associated with Glenbrook Partners and hosts Payments on Fire, leading interviews with payments and fintech opinion leaders. He also provides Glenbrook’s perspective on emerging te...

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

medium
Typical Credentials:  
Senior executives and subject-matter experts from payments ecosystems (processors, gateways, platforms, issuers/acquirers, and risk/merchant organizations), ideally with hands-on expertise in authentication, tokenization, platform payments, or fraud/risk monitoring programs.
Required Achievements:  
Executive leadership at major payments/fintech companies, Involvement in industry advocacy/education groups, Direct ownership of risk/fraud monitoring or network programs, Public analyses, research, or guidance related to payments technologies (e.g., 3DS, tokenization, VAMP)

Recent Guest Discussions

Dewald Nolte - Modern Authentication And Its Impact On Payments Cost/performance; Continued Authentication Alongside Tokenization; 3ds Considerations In Different Regulatory Environments

Amandeep Batra - Modern Authentication And Its Impact On Payments Cost/performance; 3-d Secure Usage And Performance Across Regulatory Environments; Interaction With Tokenization

Blake Breathitt - Platform Payments; Nuance Behind Platform Payments; Drivers Of Growth In The Segment

Allan Shearer - VAMP And Card Network Fraud Monitoring Evolution; Data Transparency And Implications For Enforcement Thresholds

Keith Briscoe - Evolution Of VAMP (visa Acquirer Monitoring Program); Card Network Fraud Monitoring; Transparency And Reporting Challenges

Recent Topics

Payments, Fintech, Authentication, Tokenization, Fraud

Episodes

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

Episode 294 - Zelle's Evolution in the Payments Landscape, with Preston McCaskill, Early Warning Services

May 27, 2026

In this episode, Russ Jones welcomes Preston McCaskill, Chief Operating Officer for Zelle, an open loop fast payments network owned and operated by Early Warning Services that moves money directly between two bank accounts in the US. Listen in as they discuss network's growth into small business payments, the onboarding process for financial institutions, and Zelle's settlement process and alias directory. They also cover expanding use cases like pilots in the bill pay domain, and Early Warni...

Episode 293 - Unlocking Merchant Growth in Emerging Markets, with João Del Valle, EBANX

May 13, 2026

In this episode, Drew Edmond is joined by João Del Valle, CEO and co-founder of EBANX, to talk about the origin story of EBANX, why Brazil has historically been such a difficult market for non-Brazilian merchants, and what João has learned as the company has expanded into new regions. Listen in as they cover some of the biggest topics shaping the next phase of global payments, including Pix and Pix Automático in Brazil, payment optimization when looking at local payment methods, and perspecti...

Episode 292 - Modern Authentication and the Impact on Payments Cost and Performance, with Amandeep Batra, Stripe and Dewald Nolte, Entersekt

April 29, 2026

This episode is a follow-up to our 2024 discussion with Stripe and Entersekt on the use of 3-D Secure (3DS) in markets where strong customer authentication is not mandated, particularly the United States. That earlier conversation was grounded in Stripe's analysis of US 3DS transactions and explored a counterintuitive but important finding: when 3DS is deployed selectively in unregulated markets, its presence can become correlated with higher-risk transactions, limiting its effectiveness and...

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