Introduction

Glenbrook Partners is a payments industry strategy consulting, research, and education firm. Based in Silicon Valley, we bring to our clients a unique combination of specialized skills in payments, many years of hands-on experience in the field, and our network of professional relationships. Glenbrook helps clients derive unique value within commerce and payments ecosystems across the globe and in their local communities.

We believe that efficient and inclusive financial services are vital to economic growth. At Glenbrook Partners, we are focused on helping our clients achieve these efficiencies and promote financial inclusion for the good of the global economy.

How We Can Help

Glenbrook’s expertise on how payment systems work helps our clients with the economics of implementing their own systems and applying these in different market contexts.

We provide hands-on design to develop products and services for specific markets and create viable business propositions in support of our clients and their consumers, merchants, and payments partners.

Glenbrook offers strategic approaches to clients to evaluate, develop, and implement in-country and cross-border payments.

Our deep knowledge of global payments helps clients better plan for emerging trends and integration of new technology solutions.

Global Strategy Consulting

• Glenbrook developed interoperability strategies to integrate mobile money operators and banks in Africa and South America.
• We designed a government collections platform in an East African country.
• We consulted with a leading Asian payment processor to identify new product and service offerings.
• We supported an inter-governmental association to add mobile cross-border remittances to a region-wide retail payments scheme.

Global Research

• We frequently conduct landscaping studies on various payments topics including interoperability and cross-border payments.
• We produce a quarterly competitive scan on developments in retail payments across six specific geographies.
• Glenbrook developed a new procurement product for a card network in Latin America.

Global Education

• Over 15,000 payments professionals have been trained by Glenbrook in public and private Payments Boot Camps and Workshops.
• We have delivered private, customized workshops for clients in 15 countries.
• Glenbrook co-chaired the “Ecosystem Working Group” at the International Telecommunications Union Digital Financial Services Focus Group.

Contact Us

Glenbrook Partner’s, Elizabeth McQuerry is the partner in charge of our Global Payments Practice. Contact Elizabeth to discuss how Glenbrook can assist with your global payments strategy.