PAYMENTS VIEWS
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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 so...
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 leave...
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 major...
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+...
Ready for U.S. Faster Payments 2.0?
Today's U.S. faster payments market is not the one we envisioned. In market for five-plus years now, RTP® and Zelle® laid the foundation of faster payments in the country but, as with most new payment systems, challenges inhibit adoption. Volumes...
Recent News
CBI Extends Request to Pay Service to Corporate Market
"CBI has expanded its request to pay offering to the corporate market through its network of participating payment service providers (PSPs), further strengthening its collaboration with EBA CLEARING and Nexi Group.The solution introduces a digital collections model...
Bank of America to Host Thousands of “Scaminars” to Help Protect Clients and Fight Fraud
"By year-end 2026, Bank of America will conduct 2,500 in-person scam and fraud prevention seminars reaching tens of thousands of consumers across the U.S. This grassroots initiative is designed to bring essential scam and fraud prevention education to local...
Education: Tokenization: What It Is and How to Think About It
"Tokenization has received a lot of attention in recent years as a technology that could revolutionize financial markets and payments. It promises fast settlement, low risk for counterparties and minimal barriers to competition. Yet tokenization is often...
FinCEN, Agencies Propose Rule to Implement GENIUS Act Customer Identification Program Requirement
The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), together with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and the National Credit...
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