For the last several months, Glenbrook’s Carol Coye Benson has been interviewing a number of companies involved in mobile payments in the U.S. and Canada. The companies included are Billing Revolution, Blaze Mobile, Bling Nation, Boku, CashEdge, First Data Corp., mFoundry, mPayy, Obopay, Payfone, Zong, and Zoompass.
To make it easy to access all of Carol’s analyses in a form that you can download, print out and take with you, we’ve created a PDF booklet titled “Musings about Mobile Payments 2009” that includes each of Carol’s commentaries. You can download a copy of the PDF e-Book for US$19.95.
As always, Carol welcomes your comments and suggestions – either here on PaymentsViews.com or via email to her: [email protected]. If you’d like to learn more, the new 2010 editions of our Glenbrook Payments Boot Camps include an expanded and updated focus on emerging payments – based on Carol’s on-going mobile payments research, new options now available for online payment for digital content, and the uses of ACH-based payments across both online ecommerce and physical POS domains.
As a founding partner of Glenbrook, Carol has offered clients over 25 years of experience in product, marketing, and strategy development with leading financial services providers in both wholesale and retail financial services. She is a co-author of the book “Payments Systems in the U.S.” Before founding Glenbrook Partners, Carol was a managing director of the Global Institutional Services division of Deutsche Bank, in charge of marketing, client online services, and Internet development.
Carol began her career as a corporate lending officer for large multinationals at both Bank of America and Citibank. During her time at Visa International, Carol founded and managed Visa’s European product-development office, where she led a series of electronic-commerce and chip-card projects designed to bring European banks online. Carol formally retired from Glenbrook in June 2020, but remains important to the firm as both a friend and advisor.