by Carol Coye Benson | Jul 26, 2018
What are central banks – and governments – going to do about cryptocurrencies? I was in New York last week to better understand what central bankers are thinking about – and doing – with respect to “Digital Fiat Currency”. The workshop was part of an ITU...
by Carol Coye Benson | Mar 30, 2017
I had the good fortune last week to be part of the Glenbrook team attending the FinTechStage Inclusion Forum in Jakarta. Happily, among the attendees were two women I have known for several years: Maha Bahou of the Central Bank of Jordan and Carolina Trivelli of Pagos...
by Carol Coye Benson | Oct 31, 2016
Our co-founder, partner and friend, Scott Loftesness, is formally retiring from Glenbrook today. I can’t begin to say how much I will miss him – as a colleague, as a mentor, and as an endless source of ideas and insights. Glenbrook is today what it is largely...
by Carol Coye Benson | Oct 17, 2016
The always-interesting Federal Reserve Bank Chicago Payments Symposium just closed, and predictably, a lot of the discussion (and argument!) was around “faster” – the evolving progress of the United States towards improvements in our payments systems. I was...
by Carol Coye Benson | May 4, 2016
I’m back from two days at Consensus 2016 in NYC, and reporting as promised into my investigation of the Five Big Questions. 1. Bitcoin technology: will the problems (versions, processing time, scalability) be resolved? Yes. My belief that we are all writing...
