What’s Next for US Payments

by Bryan Derman | Sep 9, 2015

We’ve spent so much time the past several years obsessing about how mobile proximity payments would be deployed in the U.S. and the rest of the developed world. Now we know. This week, Apple Pay celebrates the first anniversary of its launch, and a new generation of...

Mobile Payments – What Entrepreneurs Need to Know

by scott | 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...

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...

Who’s the Better Fraud Investigator Survey — What about Merchants?

by jayd | Jul 1, 2014

Our Card Fraud survey is still open — we’re trying to answer the question of who first detects card fraud: cardholders or their banks? The survey can be found here. I’ve received a couple of comments suggesting I left out an important fraud detector in the survey:...

Think Big: What Could Change Our Industry

by Carol Coye Benson | May 14, 2013

Here are some thoughts on big actions that industry incumbents could take to strengthen their positions and the U.S. payments industry. What do these ideas have in common? First of all, they are infrastructural or market-wide. Secondly, they all ask one or more...