Glenbrook Partners Erin McCune and Carol Coye Benson are on a mission to discover if the long-awaited “tipping point” in B2B payments, signalling a world in which electronic payments are the norm, has finally arrived. We’ll be interviewing solution providers over...
Last week we asked readers to help us capture a snapshot of U.S. market contactless/RFID terminalization. We were pleased to get 43 brave souls to respond. Here are the (admittedly anything but scientific) results: We also asked respondents to identify themselves...
The dramatic vote on the Durbin amendment is causing panic, again, among retail bankers – who were last shocked by the Fed’s overdraft ruling. I wrote about that in November (Watch Out! Big Changes in Retail Bank Pricing Are Coming). I think the underlying problem...
Editors note: Our colleague Carol Coye Benson recently experienced first hand the power of social payments and shares her experience in this post. To learn read more of Glenbrook's thinking on social payments check out this post by Russ Jones. I had a great online...
Are you planning to attend NACHA Payments 2010 in Seattle April 25-28? If so, let us know. Glenbrook will be there. Erin McCune and Russ Jones are speaking on the emerging world of social payments and the B2B cash payment challenges. Carol Coye Benson and Jay...
The Fed announced this morning that 99% of checks are now clearing electronically between banks. During a period of unremitting bank-bashing, let's take a moment to applaud a real home run by the bankers. The radical transformation of the check infrastructure,...
Green Dot's IPO plans revealed that they are becoming a bank holding company. This is completely fascinating to me - and gives, I think, a peek at what may come for retail banking in the future. At Glenbrook we've been talking, thinking, and writing for some time...
When it comes to mobile payments in the U.S. market, there’s a lot of talk and action around P2P and remote purchasing (bill to carrier models, etc.). But the biggest potential is our huge POS (point of sale) market. This market today is arguably the best-served...
A few weeks ago, Glenbrook issued a challenge to Payments Views readers: “What Are the Best Ways for Banks to Replace Lost Overdraft Fee Income?“ Given how significant the financial hit will be (JPMorgan Chase estimates a 2010 impact of $500 million after-tax), we...
For the last several months, Glenbrook's Carol Coye Benson has been interviewing a number of companies involved in mobile payments in the U.S. and Canada. The companies included are Billing Revolution, Blaze Mobile, Bling Nation, Boku, CashEdge, First Data Corp.,...
