Payments on Fire™

Russ Jones

paymentsonfire@glenbrook.com

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Booking Overview

“Payments on Fire” is a payments/fintech industry show featuring Glenbrook Partners’ take on emerging technologies and trends, plus interviews with senior payments leaders. For PR professionals, it’s a strong platform to reach practitioners across cross-border payments, networks, and modernization of payment rails—especially when you can speak credibly about strategy, operations, and adoption.

Metrics

Episodes: 298

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 4.8/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Male

Location: USA

Contact Information

paymentsonfire@glenbrook.com

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Host

Russ Jones - From the episode titles/descriptions, Russ Jones is a host who welcomes external guests and leads payments-focused conversations with industry executives (e.g., Zelle/ Early Warning Services). No f...

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

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Typical Credentials:  
Senior executives and operating leaders from payments networks, banks, fintechs, or closely related payments infrastructure (e.g., COO-level roles at major payment networks) who can speak to network operations, onboarding/settlement, and real-world adoption.
Required Achievements:  
Leadership at major payment networks or providers, Operational ownership of payment rails (onboarding/settlement/alias directories), Publicly recognized roles tied to scaling payment use cases (e.g., small business, bill pay, cross-border expansion)

Recent Guest Discussions

Preston McCaskill - Zelle’s Growth Into Small Business Payments, Financial Institution Onboarding, Settlement Process And Alias Directory, Expansion Into Bill Pay And Cross-border Consumer Payments Using Stablecoins

Recent Topics

Payments, Fintech, Cross Border, Payments Networks, Stablecoins

Episodes

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

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...

Episode 295 - Fanning the Flames - 2026 Mid-Year Payments Industry Trends Update

June 10, 2026

The Glenbrook team is taking stock in June 2026 to see how the predictions from our January episode are holding up. Tune in for updates on trending topics in payments, including agentic commerce, stablecoins, cross-border and instant payments, risk and fraud, and the regulatory landscape. We also share insights on the "hot off the presses" news on tokenized deposits and the Visa/Mastercard interchange settlement. 

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...

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