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

Mobile P2P Payments Continue to Evolve in the US

by Jim Salters

One of the "hot topics" in payments in the US market is the evolution of mobile payments - from "inevitable idea" to reality. Obopay and PayPal Mobile are both now over 2 years old - having been launched in the spring of 2006. TextPayMe, a mobile payment service that launched in late 2005, is now a part of Amazon's payments offerings. How are these services evolving? » More

Expedited Bill Payment Heating Up for Banks

by Jim Salters

Glenbrook's Allen Weinberg and Jim Salters attended this week's Payments 2008 conference in Las Vegas. Here's Jim's report about the expedited bill payment opportunity for banks. » More

Report from NACHA 2008 - Day One General Session

by Jim Salters

Glenbrook's Allen Weinberg and Jim Salters are attending this week's Payments 2008 conference in Las Vegas. Here's Jim's report on the day one general session. » More

Glenbrook at NACHA Payments 2007

Glenbrook's Jim Salters was at NACHA's Payments 2007 conference earlier this week. Jim filed the following report from the conference.

To Watch Payments Convergence, Watch Metavante

Glenbrook's Jim Salters files a Payments News report on Metavante - suggesting that to watch what's happening with payments convergence in the US, watch what Metavante's doing.

Large US Retail Bank To Bet On PKI With Arcot

Glenbrook's Jim Salters files this report for Payments News: Even if you've been following the authentication space and the industry dash to comply with the FFIEC Authentication Guidance, it's likely that you've never heard of Arcot. Details here.

Large US Retail Bank To Bet On PKI With Arcot

Glenbrook's Jim Salters files this report: Even if you've been following the authentication space and the industry dash to comply with the FFIEC Authentication Guidance, it's likely that you've never heard of Arcot. But that may soon change. According to the company, a major bank in the US will soon announce their plans to deploy ArcotID technology to its millions of retail banking customers. And while this might sound like just another customer win for an authentication solution provider, this appears to represent a dramatically different authentication strategy than we've seen so far from a large US bank, with interesting implications. The full report is available on Payments News.

FFIEC Authentication Guidance: The Countdown Continues

By Jim Salters

With roughly 4 1/2 months remaining before year-end, we thought we'd share our take on some of the recent industry developments and our lessons learned as we've helped our clients prepare for the deadline.

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