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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 […]

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Carriers United - a Look at Zoompass

Editors Note: Glenbrook, along with the rest of the payments industry, has been watching developments in mobile payments closely.  A few weeks ago, our partner Carol Coye Benson profiled Boku and CashEdge products.  Today, she takes a look at Canada’s Zoompass (below), Zong, Billing Revolution, and Blaze Mobile. [UPDATE Aug 6th: Be sure to check […]

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Wallets and Stickers and Phones, Oh My! - a Look at Blaze Mobile

Editors Note: Glenbrook, along with the rest of the payments industry, has been watching developments in mobile payments closely.  A few weeks ago, our partner Carol Coye Benson profiled Boku and CashEdge products.  Today, she takes a look at Canada’s Zoompass, Zong, Billing Revolution, and Blaze Mobile (below). [UPDATE Aug 6th: Be sure to check […]

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Digital Content & Mobile Phones - a Look at Zong

Editors Note: Glenbrook, along with the rest of the payments industry, has been watching developments in mobile payments closely.  A few weeks ago, our partner Carol Coye Benson profiled Boku and CashEdge products.  Today, she takes a look at Canada’s Zoompass, Zong (below), Billing Revolution, and Blaze Mobile. [UPDATE Aug 6th: Be sure to check […]

Carol Coye Benson Ecommerce Payments Mobile Banking & Payments

Mobile Payment Gateway? - a Look at Billing Revolution

Editors Note: Glenbrook, along with the rest of the payments industry, has been watching developments in mobile payments closely.  A few weeks ago, our partner Carol Coye Benson profiled Boku and CashEdge products.  Today, she takes a look at Canada’s Zoompass, Zong, Billing Revolution (below), and Blaze Mobile. [UPDATE Aug 6th: Be sure to check […]

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The End of Cards as We Knew Them?

By Jacqueline Chilton Note: this commentary could be subtitled: “How my trip to the U.K. left me with a chip on my shoulder!” When I was a child, I remember preparing for international travel by accompanying my parents to our local bank branch to purchase traveler’s checks. It wasn’t exactly convenient – but they felt […]

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ACH: Big Questions for the Biggest Network - An Interview with NACHA CEO Jan Estep

Editor’s Note: This is one of a pair of ACH commentaries that we are publishing today on Payments Views. Be sure to also read Erin McCune’s post “The Future of ACH.” There is a tremendous focus on the ACH network right now within the payments industry – and with good reason.  The ACH is the […]

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A Look at the U.K.’s Faster Payments Service

Many of us in the United States who follow the continuing evolution of the ACH network have been interested in the United Kingdom’s “Faster Payments” initiative.  FP just hit the one-year-since-launch milestone.  I spoke with David McFarlane, Company Manager, CHAPS Clearing Company about FP.  I was surprised by much of what he said: FP is […]

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eRetailer Tender Type Acceptance Analysis

Internet Retailer recently published the 2009 Edition of its Top 500 Guide, which provides profiles and statistics on “America’s 500 Largest Retail Web Sites”. eCommerce professionals look forward to its publication every June not only to see the relative rankings of the online retailers, and to also pick apart the shifting dynamics of the industry.

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Merchants Just Want to Sell More!

Some of us payments geeks often lose sight of what merchants really want – they just want to sell more. Selling more stuff is like 10 times more important to them than saving money on their costs of payment acceptance. Bill Me Later is but one recent example of merchants (online in this case) will […]

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Live Blogging from FinovateStartup09

By Allen Weinberg MORNING SESSION #1 – Whew – what a whirlwind!  Companies get 7 minutes to demo their products/services before the microphone is cut off.  Some very interesting stuff flying by at warp speed (so please excuse the grammar/any typos)! So here goes:

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