by Chris Uriarte | Jul 17, 2025
We have an ongoing joke at Glenbrook Partners that we just can’t stop talking about tokenization. In fact, it’s the title of one of our most popular Payments on Fire Podcasts of all time. And this year is no exception, as we continue to see significant growth in...
by Samantha Gordon | May 30, 2024
Earlier this month, Visa announced a suite of products at their annual Payments Forum that center around enabling customized cardholder experiences, additional security for CNP transactions, and services to support banks – beyond just in their role as card...
by Payments Views | Mar 14, 2024
By Justin Pituch & Chris Uriarte Just when our editors were thinking that the payments world was getting unusually quiet, we got the blockbuster announcement that Capital One intends to acquire Discover. So, while we usually take a number of news stories from the...
by George Peabody | May 23, 2017
Despite our industry’s preoccupation with mobile payments, here at Glenbrook we’ve been keeping a sharp eye on the state of the U.S. EMV® migration. Let’s call the U.S. approach, based on contact EMV only with no PINs on our credit cards, EMV Phase 1. That’s where we...
by Carol Coye Benson | Oct 17, 2016
The always-interesting Federal Reserve Bank Chicago Payments Symposium just closed, and predictably, a lot of the discussion (and argument!) was around “faster” – the evolving progress of the United States towards improvements in our payments systems. I was...
