by Russ Jones | May 11, 2015
One of the fun things we do at Glenbrook is help clients think through product concepts in financial services, commerce, and payments. An intriguing area that I’ve been thinking about and watching closely over the years is voice-activated purchasing. My interest in...
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...
by George Peabody | Mar 6, 2014
One of the pleasures of joining Glenbrook has been getting to know what and how the other Glebrookers think about what’s happening in the payments industry. We talk a lot at Glenbrook. Over iChat, email, mobile phones, Skype, Google Hangout with voice and...
by George Peabody | Jan 13, 2014
The news from Target, increasing the number of cards compromised to 70 million and the expansion of data loss to mailing and email addresses, phone numbers, and names, affirms that we’re in a security crisis. As my colleague Scott Loftesness puts it, card data is,...
by George Peabody | May 10, 2013
The arrest of eight in New York who participated in a global $45 million ATM cash-out attack revealed, once again, some hard truths about the cyber security posture of financial systems and the enterprises that operate essential payment infrastructure. First, the...
