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Justification for End to End Encryption [ATM, Debit & Prepaid Forum 2009]

The second Keynote speaker for the ATM, Debit & Prepaid Forum 2009 was Robert O. Carr, Chairman and CEO, Heartland Payment Systems.  Proud of their reputation for full disclosure with merchants, they had to put it to the test with their Jan 20, 2009 announcement of their data breach. PCI compliance is intended to target […]

Carol Coye Benson Mobile Banking & Payments

Blinging it Home? A Look at Bling Nation

One of the good things about having a really odd company name is that people do remember it.  We mostly heard skeptical laughs when Bling Nation first emerged from stealth.  But lately we’ve been getting more questions…. I spoke recently to co-CEO and founder Wences Casares. Wences and co-CEO Meyer Malka have an interesting background, […]

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Mobile Payments Needs a Match…

The Bay Area Mobile Payments Series focused on the US market last week with the topic “Is there REALLY a market for mobile payments in the US?”. The event was hosted by the Harvard Business School Technology Alumni Association, Wharton Club of Northern California and Google and moderated by Menekse Gencer of mPay Connect. Read […]

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Same Day ACH - Parity With Checks, But What About Cards?

Erin McCune and I attended the Association for Finance Professionals conference in San Francisco on Monday and Tuesday. With 4,000 plus “practitioners” and vendors there, and a robust Payments Track, there was a lot of food for thought. A standout session was “Same Day ACH” with Rich Oliver of the Fed (and the champion of […]

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Interview with Jason Hogg, CEO of Revolution Money

I jumped at the opportunity to interview Jason Hogg, CEO of Revolution Money, parent company of Revolution Card. My colleagues and I at Glenbrook Partners are frequently tapped as a source of information about the very latest goings on in the world of “alternative payments”, but unfortunately, Revolution doesn’t share a whole lot of key […]

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Finovate2009 - Afternoon Session 1

Resuming my live blogging of Finovate2009 from NYC in a few minutes. AFTERNOON SESSION #1 Yodlee -Peter Hazelhurst, SVP Products New Yodlee dashboard highlighting capabilities that used to be hard to get to Web 2.o interface based on widgets New UI indicates good and bad times to pay bills, based on expected balances New feature […]

Carol Coye Benson Mobile Banking & Payments

The Phone is the Wallet: A Look at mFoundry

Last week, Starbucks announced a raft of new mobile capabilities, with iPhone apps to enable consumers to use their phone as their card in a variety of ways, including seeing a balance and reloading.  For the payments industry, however, the announced test of a usable-for-purchase prepaid card on the phone, using 2d bar code technology, […]

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Decoupled Mobile? A Look at mPayy

At Glenbrook, we’re fascinated by the topics of mobile payments (in general); the potential for new ACH applications; and the continued growth of eCommerce.  So it was great to talk to Conrad Sheehan, CEO of mobile payment startup mPayy – who has moved his company right into the center of all three topics. To start […]

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Retrofitting Security: Working Backwards to go Forwards

Ashok Misra has an interesting, and certainly provocative, article in the current Secure Payments Magazine.  If you  don’t know Ashok, he is Sr. Manager Payments & Security at RealNetworks, Inc in Seattle, chairman of the European CNP Payment Forum, and a long-time friend of Glenbrook Partners.  In the article, he comments that the current credit […]

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Glenbrook on Emerging Payments and Many Other Topics (Need a Speaker?)

A little shameless Glenbrook promotion, forgive us. Today our partner Allen Weinberg spoke at the San Francisco Treasury Management Association (the local AFP) monthly lunch about emerging payments: PayPal, Amazon, Google Checkout, and many, many more start-ups nipping at their heels.  The crowd – half bankers and half corporate cash managers/treasury professionals – loved it. […]

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Mobile Financial Services for the Next Billion Customers: A Panel Discussion

Last Thursday evening I attended a superb mobile payment panel organized by mPayConnect and co-hosted by the Wharton and Harvard MBA alumni associations at the Wharton West campus in San Francisco. The evening’s topic was From Afghanistan to Silicon Valley: Mobile Financial Services for the Next Billion Customers. Menekse Gencer  of mPayConnect moderated and brought […]

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Getting the Garden Ready: First Data and Mobile Payments at the Point of Sale

While the list of start-ups focused on mobile payments for digital content, eCommerce physical goods and/or person-to-person transfers continues to grow, another part of the industry is biding its time, with an eye on what may be a much larger prize. What’s at stake are point-of-sale, in-person payments – what Glenbrook estimates to be roughly […]

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It’s Not Just Games Anymore - A Look at Payfone

Among other recent interviews on mobile payments, we took a look last month at two companies (Boku and Zong) that are focusing on bill-to-carrier models for digital content purchases in the online gaming arena.  Fascinating, but surely (for my demographic, at any rate) a niche market – after all, how many times have you spent […]

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Purchasing Facebook Credits with Zong Mobile Payments

At Glenbrook we believe that social eCommerce and virtual currencies are the new frontier of payments. Person-to-person transfers, charity donations, and micropayments for virtual goods (e.g. games, music, e-books, etc.) are exploding within social networks and as the 800-pound-gorilla in the social networking space, all eyes are on Facebook. Estimates vary, but $300-500 million in […]

Carol Coye Benson Mobile Banking & Payments P2P

A Look at Obopay: Mobile Payments Pioneer is Sticking to Its Knitting

Editors Note: Glenbrook, along with the rest of the payments industry, has been watching developments in mobile payments closely.  This is one of a series of posts by our partner Carol Coye Benson. Thus far she has profiled Boku, CashEdge products, Canada’s Zoompass, Zong, Billing Revolution, and Blaze Mobile. Today she takes a look at […]