Amazon.com is in the news all the time with its continued expansion of markets and fulfillment centers, its focus on innovation and long term R&D, and, recently, some very non-intuitive acquisitions. It’s easy to get swept up in their story. But when a company...
We have started development on this year’s Innovation in Payments workshop, and I wanted to share our current thinking on a new topic we're including for the first time –– the use of artificial intelligence technologies in the payments industry. AI technologies...
In various venues — our Payments Bootcamp, our private client sessions or our merchant group meetings — we have talked a lot about MCX, the Merchant Customer Exchange initiative, created by a number of the largest US retailers to establish a merchant-centric wallet...
I just attended NACHA’s Council for Electronic Billing and Payments and I've come away with an even firmer opinion that this payments business I’m in isn't about payments. It’s about data. A retail payment transaction has the potential to throw off a lot of...
Dennis Moser is Glenbrook’s payments systems expert. He’s worked on building the engines that make payment networks run, especially the critical component of the POS and payment acceptance infrastructure. He’s also been neck deep in payment data management...
Our work in payment data cuts across many areas. Who has what data? How is it best monetized? How can it be put to use for better decision making? How can it be augmented and enhanced. It’s in this last area of “enhancements” that we’ve become fascinated with a new...
I recently had the time and opportunity to bone up on machine learning. The opportunity that presented itself was a 10-week on-line course taught by a well known Stanford Computer Science professor, Andrew Ng. The course, offered by coursera.org included...
