by Erin McCune | Jun 11, 2013
I am in London this morning, where I had an opportunity to present a vision for the future of business payments at Experian’s Payments Strategy Conference 2013. Acknowledging that it is always dangerous to make predictions, this is what I envision for the future...
by Erin McCune | Apr 9, 2013
At Glenbrook we talk about “network fantasies” a lot. These are hopes that payments innovators, and incumbents, have about the so-called “network effect” in payments. Many a payments start-up has sat in our conference room and predicted the flood of transactions...
by Erin McCune | May 7, 2012
Talking to banks and the biggest bank technology vendors at NACHA’s annual payments conference last week I couldn’t help thinking how they suffer from similar challenges. Big banks are hampered by their complex technology environment of legacy solutions with layers of...
by Erin McCune | Oct 14, 2011
B2B payments are not a new opportunity. The payments industry is littered with ambitious business payment solutions that have faltered. Past failures are largely due to an exaggerated focus on buyers (at the expense of suppliers), grandiose network affect...
by Carol Coye Benson | Apr 1, 2011
Glenbrook Partners Erin McCune and Carol Coye Benson are on a mission to discover if the long-awaited “tipping point” in B2B payments, signaling a world in which electronic payments are the norm, has finally arrived. In pursuit of this, we’ll be interviewing...