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EMV’s Not-Very-Even Distribution

by | Dec 7, 2015

At our Glenbrook Payments Boot Camps, we often quote futurist and novelist William Gibson’s 1993 remark that “the future is already here — it’s just not very evenly distributed” in order to demonstrate that different payment methods take varying amounts of time...

EMV – Necessary, Insufficient, and our Lasting PR Risk

by | Aug 27, 2015

We are just a month away from the October EMV liability shift and the transition is, to no one’s surprise, mostly incomplete. EMV credit card issuance is expected to be at just 50% by the end of this year. Point of sale hardware upgrades at major retailers may...

Mobile Payments – What Entrepreneurs Need to Know

by | Apr 8, 2015

Recorded about a month ago by VC firm Matrix Partners, Glenbrook’s Scott Loftesness and Dana Stalder of Matrix Partners discuss the evolution of mobile payments, the business model failure of Softcard, and other topics including: The 8+ year journey to ApplePay...

New POS Security from Old System Topology

by | Mar 3, 2015

Anyone around technology for a couple of decades recognizes how old ideas tend to return. To those folks, using a browser to do data entry into an enterprise database looks a lot like a mini or mainframe system’s terminal application. Back for another incarnation in...

Who’s a Better Fraud Investigator — You or Your Bank?

by | Sep 2, 2014

Last month, I invited everyone to participate in a survey about card fraud detection. It asked a simple question: “Who’s better at card fraud detection? You or your bank?” The results are in and, well, it looks like it’s more or less a tie:...