Merchants Just Want to Sell Stuff

Anyone who’s been in a Glenbrook Payments Boot Camp session with me has heard me emphatically stress that merchants “just want to sell stuff – they don’t want to be in the payments business”. Of course many larger and more sophisticated merchants have figured out how...

Coachella Takes Payment Cards – Mostly

I spent the weekend in Indio, California at the Coachella Music and Arts Festival (often referred to as the “Modern Day Woodstock” for you Boomers). Over the few weeks leading up to the event, Square and Apple advertised quite a bit about how every single vendor on...

Merchant Risk Council – Terry Jones

Next up at today’s Merchant Risk Council session was Terry Jones, the founder and former CEO of Travelocity.com – and a FABULOUS speaker! Jones spoke about impact of the Internet on industries, citing travel as being impacted the most; half of all travel...

Merchant Risk Council – Tom Ridge

Former Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and Governor of Pennsylvania Tom Ridge keynoted this morning’s opening of the Merchant Risk Council. What a great speaker! Note that Ridge also sits on the board of Ethoca (www.ethoca.com). Ridge...

Field Report from NACHA’s Payments 2008 Conference

Glenbrook’s Allen Weinberg is attending this week’s Payments 2008 conference in Las Vegas. Here’s Allen’s first report from today’s sessions.This year’s NACHA Payment conference offered an incredible array of sessions, making the choices...