Yesterday Consult Hyperion’s Dave Birch paid a visit to Glenbrook World HQ here in Menlo Park. We talked payments, consulting, emerging markets, and blogging. But the highlight was our test of his UK issued contactless payment sticker at the 7-Eleven next to our office. It worked!
You have to be a hardcore contactless geek to understand why that’s significant. Here’s a quick explanation:Visa and MasterCard outside the US have an EMV-based standard for contactless, separate from the magnetic stripe-based standard used in the US. The sticker that Dave had stuck to his iPhone was issued in the UK but using the US standard, because the European standard doesn’t currently work in stickers (because it needs the contact chip interface to access the EMV parameters).
Here’s the photographic evidence:
Dave Birch paying with his Prepay Technologies contactless sticker at the 7-Eleven near Glenbrook.
During her time at Glenbrook, Erin focused on client engagements in business payments, cross-border transactions, bill payment, and the intersection of corporate finance, banking, and ERP/accounting. She has nearly twenty years of experience leading increasingly complex payment initiatives for corporate clients and advising financial institutions and payment technologists on the development of their payment capabilities.
Erin is also the founder of Forte Financial, a consulting firm focused on corporate finance efficiency, technology, and process improvement. She is a past president of the Financial Women’s Association of San Francisco and also a two-term past president of the San Francisco Treasury Management Association. Erin is no longer with Glenbrook, but contributed greatly during her time at the firm.