Editors Note: Glenbrook, along with the rest of the payments industry, has been watching developments in mobile payments closely. Our partner Carol Coye Benson profiles Boku today. She has also taken a look at the CashEdge's POPmoney, Canada’s Zoompass, Zong, Billing...
Last week Glenbrook conducted an "Opportunities in B2B Payments" workshop in New York City. Erin McCune and I led the workshop, which was attended by product strategists from card networks, NACHA, The Clearing House, major banks, processors, software and service...
… and Why ‘Decoupled Debit’ Could Change All That I was fascinated to read that Bank of America is now including debit cards in its card payment business line. Now, for anyone outside of our payments industry, this sounds absolutely reasonable. But from inside the...
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 be...
It's springtime, and annual payments statistics are starting to bloom. A good time, perhaps, to consider the state of business-to-business (B2B) payments. NACHA recently released figures showing that ACH CTX transactions grew by 15% in the fourth quarter, compared to...
I live in a small town in southern Oregon. On Saturday, I was at the Middle School, manning the snack booth for the regional band competition. I did pretty well - over 50 sales! But what fascinated me was that three people asked, somewhat plaintively, if I took...
These perilous economic times lead all of us outside of our comfort zone, and these thoughts certainly don’t fall directly into my current sphere of expertise as a payments industry consultant. But I did start my business career as a corporate lending officer –...
I count five references guaranteed to mystify most people: "the solution also meets the new GSM Association "Pay-Buy-Mobile" mobile handset requirements based on the Single Wire Protocol (SWP). The new Inside MicroRead® NFC chip, combined with the Gemalto latest UpTeq...
Glenbrook's Carol Coye Benson recently interviewed Murali Subbarao, CEO of Billeo, about the status of the online bill payment marketplace in the US.
Glenbrook’s Carol Coye Benson recently interviewed Stephanie Sturgis-Griffin, the newly named CEO of Pariter Solutions, a Wells Fargo and Bank of America joint venture for ACH processing. The company, according to the press release announcing it last May, will be “the...
