Glen Sarvady

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Glen Sarvady

Glen Sarvady

@154Advisors

Actionable payments insights. Defender of friction, in appropriate use cases

Atlanta, GA Katılım Şubat 2016
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Glen Sarvady
Glen Sarvady@154Advisors·
@mikulaja Are you sure? Just last month Jimmy Fallon was helping him explain how he was on a mission to empower financial literacy. I briefly gave him the benefit of the doubt.
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Jason Mikula@mikulaja·
Step, the kids banking app recently acquired by MrBeast, made a series of videos coaching kids on how to manipulate their parents into letting them buy crypto. The videos, referenced in a letter sent by Sen Elizabeth Warren yesterday, have all been deleted.
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Jay Bookman@jaysbookman·
@NilesGApol I have an apolitical friend who calls Jackson "Angry Man," because all he knows about him is from Jackson's ads.
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Niles Francis@NilesGApol·
Will gladly circle back to this if I’m wrong but I think Rick Jackson is gonna crash and burn once he gets to a runoff simply because Burt Jones comes across better and more believable on TV
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Glen Sarvady@154Advisors·
@nut_history Given that the poll is posted by an account called BaseballHistoryNut, the results are underwhelming. It was a tough call for me
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Glen Sarvady@154Advisors·
@DecodingFoxNews @TecFlack As a Wharton grad I can tell you it isn’t “the hardest college to get into.” Wasn’t when he attended, isn’t now.
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Decoding Fox News
Decoding Fox News@DecodingFoxNews·
His uncle was an MIT professor but he was NOT the longest server professor. This is also creepy and racist as he does not have “better blood,” because one of his relatives was smart.
Acyn@Acyn

Trump: I know a lot of stupid people that went to a good college. My uncle was the longest serving professor at MIT. That means I have much better blood. But I went to the hardest college of all to get into, the Wharton school of finance, that means I'm real smart.

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Glen Sarvady@154Advisors·
@jameswester She has an even worse reading in “Green Card” that has haunted me for years
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Alex Johnson@AlexH_Johnson·
There shouldn’t be a Bank Policy Institute (@bankpolicy) and a Bitcoin Policy Institute (@bitcoinpolicy). Two BPIs lobbying in the same industry is confusing! One of you needs to change your name.
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BaseballHistoryNut@nut_history·
When I say “pinch hitter” who’s the first player that pops in your head?
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Glen Sarvady@154Advisors·
@virginieoshea Nothing says “driving innovation forward” like… a new logo! And a fairly generic one at that
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Glen Sarvady@154Advisors·
@AlexH_Johnson @Aarondklein @federalreserve More context- most of Pix’s growth comes from cash displacement (I doubt Visa/MC volumes cratered over the same period). The US has a far more ingrained card culture; fewer cash xns are ripe for the taking. FedNow uptake is undeniably slow, but IMO Brazil is a dicey comparison
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Alex Johnson
Alex Johnson@AlexH_Johnson·
@Aarondklein @federalreserve Important to note that the Fed cannot force banks to adopt FedNow while the Brazilian central bank can force large banks to adopt Pix (and had done so).
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Aaron Klein
Aaron Klein@Aarondklein·
Pix launched Nov 2020. FedNow flopped out July 2023. Just shows that when a central bank wants to build something great it can. And when the @federalreserve wants to fail, it can and will. What a FedFail!
Marcel van Oost@oost_marcel

🇧🇷 Brazil’s Pix payment system now processes more transactions than Visa and Mastercard combined 🤯 According to Banco Central do Brasil, Pix handled 224+ million transactions in a single day, overtaking the combined domestic volumes of Visa and Mastercard. Let’s put that into context. Pix launched in November 2020. In under five years, it became the default payment method for more than 150 million Brazilians, roughly 70% (❗️) of the population. It’s: • Instant • 24/7 • Free for consumers • Near-zero cost for merchants • Mandatory for large banks That combination changed everything. For decades, Brazil’s merchants paid 2–5% per card transaction. Pix removed most of that friction overnight. For a street vendor in Recife or a small business in São Paulo, the math became obvious. But this isn’t just about transaction volume. Pix brought an estimated 71 million unbanked or underbanked Brazilians into the digital economy. That’s one of the largest financial inclusion shifts in modern history. And strategically, this is even bigger: A government-built rail is directly competing with — and outscaling — private global card networks. This raises a fundamental question for the global payments ecosystem: If public, low-cost, interoperable infrastructure can scale this fast… what does that mean for the long-term economics of interchange? Brazil may not just have built a payment system. It may have built a blueprint. Together with 🇮🇳 India’s UPI, this might be the most successful payments story of the past decade. What do you think? Will more central banks follow this path?

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Glen Sarvady@154Advisors·
@nut_history Funny, I thought Eck would be the consensus answer. I consider Tekulve and Quiz to be submariners
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BaseballHistoryNut@nut_history·
When I say "sidearm" pitcher - who's the first player that comes to mind?
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Glen Sarvady@154Advisors·
@AlexH_Johnson Add the fact that Donald Trump Jr serves as a Strategic Advisor to Kalshi and the concept of “appearance of impropriety” reaches new levels
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Glen Sarvady@154Advisors·
@AlexH_Johnson Seems like one of those “step back and think for a second about what you’re actually doing” moments.
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Jim Perry
Jim Perry@mi_jim·
Utica, NY-based Adirondack Bank to merge with Glens Falls, NY-based Arrow Bank creating $5.4B institution buff.ly/ErVf1ko
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Glen Sarvady@154Advisors·
@mi_jim I’d be willing to bet the 2026 number will remain below 2024’s high- and likely 20% lower.
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Glen Sarvady@154Advisors·
@mi_jim The article does say “perception,” but I’d love to know the definition of “accelerating.” Credit union acquisitions of banks declined by a third (to 16) in 2025, during a year of *increasing* bank M&A. The share of bank acquisitions that involve CUs was only 9%!
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Jim Perry
Jim Perry@mi_jim·
Bank executives are increasingly signaling concern about credit unions as competitive pressures rise across lending, deposits and mergers, according to IntraFi’s Q4 2025 Bank Executive Business Outlook Survey buff.ly/GoDQVLs
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Glen Sarvady@154Advisors·
@RogueCfpb Has Regulatory Arbitrage been confirmed as a 2028 Olympic demonstration sport?
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Glen Sarvady@154Advisors·
@RogueCfpb Sounds a bit like this everyday American’s strategy of picking against the Bears most weeks in my NFL office pool to limit the emotional pain of another loss (worked pretty well until this year, when it took the edge off the euphoria instead…)
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Ron Filipkowski@RonFilipkowski·
NO TAXPAYER BAILOUTS FOR THE CRYPTO SPECULATORS AND CON ARTISTS. If you gambled and lost, don’t ask the American people to bail you out. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
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