Payments On Fire

The global spread of digital payments gets a huge boost from giants like Google. Google’s Google Pay is far more than just a wallet, and the subject of this Payments on Fire® episode with Steve Klebe. Steve heads Google’s Processor and Partnerships business and has terrific experience in our industry, working with payment gateway CyberSource, payment security firm RSA, and carrier billing firm BilltoMobile. He’s also served multiple times on the board of the Electronic Transaction Association. In other words, a true payments geek. Here’s what we talked about: The evolution of Google Pay from its 2011 launch as Google Wallet and the various incarnations since then Google’s business model for GPay and the degree to which the data generated by GPay transactions influence (or not) the advertisements we see on sites using Google’s advertising services Transit payments, Google’s role in the W3C’s Payment Request API, and how Google pulls it into its own tools The Google Pay value proposition and how it combines th