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BofA: Strong Demand for ePayables and Supply Chain Solutions

Glenbrook’s Carol Coye Benson and I discussed B2B payments with Kevin Phalen of Bank of America this last week. Kevin is an Integrated Debt and Treasury Solutions Executive and joined the bank nine months ago, having previously held positions at JPMorgan Chase, First Data Corporation, MasterCard International, and Sears Credit. Not surprisingly, Kevin’s outlook for […]

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Failures of Branding

At Glenbrook, we’re pretty interested in what makes mass consumer adoption of new payments capabilities happen – or not. We’ve been talking lately about “brand as action” – the notion that consumers (and merchants) need a way to express how they are going to pay or be paid. This can be brand with a “capital […]

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Google Checkout Adds Subscriptions

Google Checkout has just moved a “subscription” capability into beta. This is welcome news to many online sellers, as the ability to charge buyers on a regular basis, without the buyers’ active involvement has been missing from Google Checkout since its inception. The new capability, as described by Google, appears to be somewhat advanced, with […]

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eBay Analyst Day: PayPal World Domination

Earlier today, PayPal president Scott Thompson presented at the eBay Analyst day (the first done by the company since 2006) and I will do my best to summarize his key points here in this post. The primary message I heard was that PayPal intends to dominate e-commerce transactions worldwide. In addition, I’m including the PayPal-specific […]

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Merchant Risk Council - Tom Ridge

Former Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and Governor of Pennsylvania Tom Ridge keynoted this morning’s opening of the Merchant Risk Council. What a great speaker! Note that Ridge also sits on the board of Ethoca (www.ethoca.com). Ridge focused on managing risk in environment of uncertainty. He cited ties fraud to domestic/national security […]

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Merchant Risk Council's Platinum Day - Afternoon Sessions

Is Now the Time for Online PIN Debit? This session was presented by Mike Strada from Chase Paymentech. Mike is a fan of online PIN debit, especially the notion of giving merchants more choices. His discussion focused on the different options the 12 North American debit networks are exploring. Several of the debit networks are […]

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Merchant Risk Council's Platinum Day - Morning Sessions

I‘m in Las Vegas today attending the Merchant Risk Council’s Platinum Day Sessions. I’ll be blogging my comments from the sessions here along with my colleague Jay DeWitt who’s also attending this year’s MRC. Fraud Prevention on eBay Marketplace Unfortunately my plane landed such that I was only able to catch the tail end of […]

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Payments as Business Strategy - MRC March 10-12, 2009

The Merchant Risk Council is holding its 7th Annual e-Commerce Payments and Risk Conference on March 10-12, 2009 in Las Vegas Nevada. I will be leading a panel discussion at the conference on “Payments as Business Strategy”. In this discussion, we will highlight how payments management is an important part of any eCommerce Merchant’s overall […]

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Payment Systems Fraud Is Not the Same as Data Security!

A Report from the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago’s 2008 Payments Conference by Linda Elliott I’ve just returned from the Chicago Federal Reserve Banks’ 2008 Payments Conference where this year’s topic was Payments Fraud: Perception versus Reality. The conference had good presentations on fraud perspectives in payments ranging from check processing to PayPal, mobile commerce, […]

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NetDeposit and the Future of Remote Deposit Capture [NACHA Payments]

[This is just one of my series of posts from the NACHA Payments 2008 conference in Las Vegas.] NetDeposit and the Future of Remote Deposit Capture [NACHA Payments] After exchanging "small world" stories demonstrating all the ways that Danne Buchanan and I should have crossed paths before this week, we settled into a discussion of the […]

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Live Blogging from Finovate Startup - Afternoon Session

I am live blogging from Finovate Startup in San Francisco. Jim Bruene and his team at NetBanker have gathered 40 startups, rebrandings, and company debuts in online banking and finance. Each participant has a brief 5 minutes to demo their product so I’ll be typing as fast as I can. (Please forgive typos!) AFTERNOON SESSION […]

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2008 ETA Annual Meeting & Expo - A Field Report

by Allen Weinberg This year’s annual ETA seemed bigger than in previous years, and from almost everyone that I spoke to, much more exhausting. In my humble opinion, this was the first year that had a really compelling set of sessions to choose from. Unfortunately, I and quite a few others were never able to […]

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Distributed Capture Panel Discussion (TAWPI Conference)

[I am in Las Vegas for the TAWPI Payments in Transition conference – these are my notes from one of the sessions. An index of all of the sessions and links to the rest of my notes is here. – EMc] Distributed Capture Panel Discussion Wally Vogel, President, Creditron Mary Hockridge, Executive VP, NetDeposit Brandon […]

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Check 21 Road Map: One Bank's Journey Into the 21st Century (TAWPI Conference)

[I am in Las Vegas for the TAWPI Payments in Transition conference – these are my notes from one of the sessions. An index of all of the sessions and links to the rest of my notes is here. – EMc] Check 21 Road Map: One Bank's Journey Into the 21st CenturyJR Thornton, AVP Indirect […]

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Distributed Capture: Trends, Opportunities & Challenges (TAWPI Conference)

[I am in Las Vegas for the TAWPI Payments in Transition conference – these are my notes from one of the sessions. An index of all of the sessions and links to the rest of my notes is here. – EMc] Distributed Capture: Trends, Opportunities & ChallengesDavid Peterson, Executive VP, Goldleaf Financial Solutions [program blurb] […]