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Fast Payments, Rich Data
FedNow – the Federal Reserve’s new instant payment service – went live earlier this summer, and it could signal big changes ahead for B2B payments. Why? It comes down to data. B2B payments are rife with data challenges. In my last post, I...
B2B: Why the Pain?
B2B payments keep commerce moving, but B2B transactions can be incredibly painful for both senders and receivers. Check usage remains stubbornly high in the B2B space, even post-lockdown. Manual processes abound. So what makes B2B transactions...
Poor Account Management: The Silent Killer of Payment Service Providers
The major global payment service providers (PSPs) are in perpetual competition to provide their target merchants with the highest quality of payments acceptance technology. However, one of the most common reasons that Glenbrook sees merchants...
Is this the Future of Reducing 3D-Secure Friction in the Long Term?: A Look at Visa’s Digital Authentication Framework (DAF)
In this post, Glenbrook provides a solutions review. This is a new type of Glenbrook payments views post that deep dives into a particular market solution. Once in a while, we run into a few topics and innovations that we think could have a...
Payments Post #4: Glenbrook’s May Roundup
Welcome to the May installment of Payments Post, where we’re highlighting the news that got Glenbrook talking. The common thread that emerged in May was the American consumer. We observed a burst of news highlighting technology reshaping how...
Payments Post #3: Glenbrook’s April Roundup
Welcome back to Payments Post. Last month’s edition was all about banks; this month’s is about “paying by bank”. Or to be a bit more semantically precise, account-to-account (A2A) payments. We were particularly interested in Visa’s Visa+...
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