Mobile Payment Unintended Consequences (or How I Locked Myself Out of the House, Again)

by Erin McCune | Jan 15, 2015

I am writing this post sitting on the front steps of our house in San Francisco. I have locked myself out three times recently, more than I have in the past three decades. Is it dementia? No, I blame mobile payments. Last summer I bought a case for my iPhone that had...

Adventures in Attribution – The Apple vs. MCX Dialog

by Bryan Derman | Nov 10, 2014

Like many payments industry insiders, we have been following the recent impassioned industry dialog about the relative merits of Apple Pay and MCX’s CurrentC wallet with a combination of amusement and despair. The barbs and accusations being exchanged by the rival...

ApplePay, NFC, QR (Oh My!) and the New POS

by jayd | Oct 9, 2014

First There is a Mountain, Then There is No Mountain, Then There is… I’ve been thinking about what the future of the point of sale environment will look like from a consumer perspective. Of course, 10 years ago, we all knew what it was going to look like:...

Apple Pay: It’s Your Life?

by Carol Coye Benson | Sep 12, 2014

These are some personal observations on Apple Pay, after an exciting week of reading announcements from Apple and reactions from bloggers. (If you want a Glenbrook business view on the announcement, read Wednesday’s post by my partner George Peabody.) For...

Apple Pay Stirs, But Doesn’t Shake, the Mobile Landscape

by George Peabody | Sep 10, 2014

The Apple Pay announcement finally came yesterday and the company’s orchestration of much of the complex and fractious card payments ecosystem demonstrates Apple’s insight into how the current payments ecosystem works and how it must be aligned in order to...