Two Paths for Faster

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...

Five Answers – Sort of – to the Big Questions on Blockchain and Bitcoin

by Carol Coye Benson | May 4, 2016

I’m back from two days at Consensus 2016 in NYC, and reporting as promised into my investigation of the Five Big Questions. 1. Bitcoin technology: will the problems (versions, processing time, scalability) be  resolved? Yes. My belief that we are all writing...

Five Big Questions on Bitcoin and Blockchain

by Carol Coye Benson | Apr 28, 2016

I’m headed to New York next week for the CoinDesk Consensus conference…”Making Blockchain Real”. I’m going because I’m trying to get my head around some big questions. I normally have a sense, even with new things, of the path...

Reflections: Back to the Future

by scott | Mar 1, 2016

Today, Glenbrook celebrates its 15th birthday. It’s been quite a journey – an amazing one in so many ways – yet it also sometimes feels like we’re still on Day One! There’s so much happening in payments – and, more broadly, in commerce, financial...

Really Big Questions in Payments

by Carol Coye Benson | Jan 19, 2016

Glenbrook’s Allen Weinberg wrote a few weeks ago about his view of the Grand Challenges in payments…. a daunting list, and one I agree with.  But I want to extend his discussion on one of his challenges:  “Realigned value chain economics in a push payment world”, and...