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 of...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
This week I've been in Amsterdam for Sibos - the annual international banking conference sponsored by SWIFT. (For those of you who aren't familiar with SWIFT it is a consortium of worldwide banks that runs a global secure network connecting banks in over 200...
Companies of all sizes have adopted accounts payable (AP) automation solutions, yet recent IAPP-TAWPI and Glenbrook research reveals that e-invoicing benefits remain elusive. Semantics Electronic invoicing, or e-invoicing, means different things to different...
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...
Glenbrook Partner's Jacqueline Chilton is in Miami this week for the Airline and Travel Payments Summit. She is moderating a panel on localisation at 2pm on Thursday: Lessons learned: Localised payments are a key part of improving your bottom line in a global...
