Glenbrook Partners - Bryan Derman - Payments Consultant

Bryan Derman

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Bryan brings an unusually comprehensive perspective to his consulting practice, having worked as a senior executive, security analyst, and strategy consultant during his 20-year career in financial services. He has developed new strategies and innovative business models for banking technologies ranging from ATMs and debit card acceptance to bill payment and payroll check cashing.

Before joining Glenbrook, Bryan served as vice president of strategic development for Cyota, overseeing the company’s relationships with strategic partners including payment processors and card associations.

Before Cyota, Bryan worked for First Data Corporation (FDC) as senior vice president for deposit access products at First Data Merchant Services.

Earlier in his career, Bryan established the Electronic Banking Division as a senior vice president at NatWest Bancorp in New York. There he had responsibility for the bank’s off-premise ATM network, debit card issuance, and online banking. Bryan also served as chief financial officer and head of business planning for NatWest’s retail bank and performed similar duties within Citibank’s New York retail banking network.

Bryan also worked as an equity research analyst covering large capitalization banks stocks at Morgan Stanley and began his career as a consultant at McKinsey & Company managing strategy development engagements for large financial institutions.

Bryan's Writings

February 05, 2009

Card Network Earnings Are In - It’s Now Safe to Exhale!

By Bryan Derman

It seems like it’s been a month now that we at Glenbrook – and people all around the payments business – have been holding our collective breath waiting to see what level of purchase volumes would be reported by MasterCard and Visa for Q4 2008.

Well, the results came in the last 24 hours, and while it wasn’t pretty, the numbers weren’t quite so bad as some had feared. In fact, in some ways, they were a mildly pleasant surprise. » More

September 03, 2008

Checking Up on Bill Presentment

By Bryan Derman and Jim Salters

CheckFree and AT&T Mobility recently announced that AT&T would begin supporting electronic bill presentment through CheckFree-powered bank bill pay sites. AT&T Mobility's more than 70 million customers will now be able to receive their bills electronically at their bank's bill pay site if the bank is a CheckFree customer. AT&T Mobility joins 400 other billers who currently present bills through CheckFree's 3,000 banks. » More

June 17, 2008

It's June 2008 - Do You Know Where Your BIN's Are?

by Bryan Derman

We were intrigued by this week’s announcement that the FDIC had issued enforcement actions against two banks (and reached a settlement with a third bank) related to their sponsorship of credit card programs promoted by CompuCredit.

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October 02, 2007

Glenbrook's Take on Finovate 1.0

Glenbrook's Bryan Derman attended today's Finovate 1.0 Conference in New York City. He filed his report on the conference on Payments News.

March 23, 2007

Watching the Anti-Money Laundering Risk in Prepaid Cards

Glenbrook's Bryan Derman filed the following report after his participation in March 2007 on a panel titled "Hype or Reality – Anti-Money Laundering Risks from Prepaid Payment Products and What Can Be Done About Them" at the Spring Meeting of the American Bar Association’s Business Law Section in Washington, DC. » More

March 09, 2007

A Deeper Look at Amex’s S2S eInvoice & Pay Service

Glenbrook's Bryan Derman attended a briefing in New York by American Express on its new B2B commerce solution and had an opportunity to speak directly with a few of the executives involved. Here's his report on this new service as posted to Payments News.

January 19, 2005

Wither the Empire?

By Bryan Derman

Some thoughts from Bryan on reading leading indicators in Consumer Financial Services.

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