Chase Blueprint brings new transparency and consumer control to credit cards Today’s announcement of the new “Blueprint” functionality by Chase Card Services represents a significant generational inflection point in the evolution of the US credit card business....
Fresh off raising another $42 million of star-studded (Goldman Sachs this time) venture capital, Steve Case and Jason Hogg came to the NACHA Payments 2009 conference today to tell the banking world about their payments "Revolution". Apart from reiterating last...
I've been trying to enjoy the little culture skirmish that surfaced last week as media watchdog Jon Stewart of the Comedy Central took comedian Jim Cramer of CNBC to task for failing to warn the public that the valuation of houses, equities, municipal bonds,...
Somehow the issue of how to compensate the management of America’s crippled banks has becoming a more compelling topic than the more fundamental question of how to (or whether to) rescue those banks. Michael Kinsley jumps into the middle of this debate in today’s...
By Bryan Derman It seems like it’s been a month now that we at Glenbrook – and people all around the payments business – have been holding our collective breath waiting to see what level of purchase volumes would be reported by MasterCard and Visa for Q4 2008....
CheckFree and AT&T Mobility recently announced that AT&T would begin supporting electronic bill presentment through CheckFree-powered bank bill pay sites. AT&T Mobility's more than 70 million customers will now be able to receive their bills...
We were intrigued by this week’s announcement that the FDIC had issued enforcement actions against two banks (and reached a settlement with a third bank) related to their sponsorship of credit card programs promoted by CompuCredit. These actions follow a lawsuit by...
Glenbrook's Bryan Derman attended today's Finovate 1.0 Conference in New York City. He filed his report on the conference on Payments News.
Glenbrook's Bryan Derman filed the following report after his participation in March 2007 on a panel titled "Hype or Reality – Anti-Money Laundering Risks from Prepaid Payment Products and What Can Be Done About Them" at the Spring Meeting of the American Bar...
Glenbrook's Bryan Derman attended a briefing in New York by American Express on its new B2B commerce solution and had an opportunity to speak directly with a few of the executives involved. Here's his report on this new service as posted to Payments...
