Consistent with the current government focus on enhancing consumer protection, the Credit Card Accountability Responsibility and Disclosure Act of 2009 (Credit CARD Act of 2009) brings sea changes to the credit card industry. Forward-looking financial services...
The Glenbrook team is devouring advance copies of "Priceless: The Case that Brought Down the Visa/MasterCard Bank Cartel" by Lloyd Constantine. All I can say is "wow"! This is juicy reading that I'm sure all payments professionals will want to add to their book...
On the heels of our own Payments Views post The End of Cards as We Knew Them? have come interesting comments on the acceptance challenges facing US consumers using magnetic stripe cards overseas. Listen to Guest Daniel Ray, editor-in-chief of creditcards.com on...
At Glenbrook, we’re pretty interested in what makes mass consumer adoption of new payments capabilities happen – or not. We’ve been talking lately about “brand as action” – the notion that consumers (and merchants) need a way to express how they are going to pay or...
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....
