
Glen Sarvady
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Glen Sarvady
@154Advisors
Actionable payments insights. Defender of friction, in appropriate use cases







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.


🎬 ‘Four Weddings and a Funeral’ opened in U.S. theaters 32 years ago, March 11, 1994


Thank you Mr. President for everything you’re doing to make the US the crypto capital of the world! Building the future of financial services is critical for America vs China and other foreign competitors.






🇧🇷 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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CFTC Chair Mike Selig vows to contest state efforts to crack down on prediction markets, touting them for allowing “everyday Americans to hedge their commercial risk” by betting on the weather and also acting as an “important check on our news media and our information streams”

Heads up #gapol - the legal quagmire in Illinois is only getting stickier. Please avoid this issue in Ga to protect consumers, payments & anti fraud. For history, check out the GAO report re this. georgiapolicy.org/news/attacks-o…




