One of my first impressions when joining the Federal Reserve’s Retail Payments Office was that so many of the staff powering the Fed’s ACH network were women. Women are everywhere in electronic payments … well, almost everywhere. Even today women occupy relatively...
Editors Note: Elizabeth McQuerry joined Glenbrook last week and this is her first Payments Views contribution. Her practice will focus on International payments and ACH. Welcome Elizabeth! We are living an amazing period in the payments industry – a new “golden age...
Good morning! Gearing up for the two-day typing marathon that is Finovate. We're at a huge venue this year (same as last year, apparently - someone else from Glenbrook was here then), a cavernous exhibition hall that has plenty of room for the 1200+ attendees; I...
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...
I was at NACHA’s annual payments conference last week and the most interesting things I heard and saw had to do with small business banking and payments, a long suffering, underserved segment of the market. There’ve been glimmers of hope for small business off and...
I'm at the Kansas City Federal Reserve Bank's conference on Consumer Payment Innovation. Bruce Summers, Former Director, Federal Reserve Information Technology, just finished presenting a major paper on payments system infrastructure and the Fed's potential role...
This is conference week for me! Today I’m sitting at Mobile Money Americas in Mexico City, with a fascinating group of people working on mobile wallets in countries throughout the region. Of the 129 live mobile money projects worldwide (and let’s not get...
Every year I try to attend what I think of as the PayPal Developers Conference. This year what used to be the PayPal X Innovate Conference was expanded to include eBay app development, Magento app development, and –– most importantly –– X.commerce app development....
Glenbrook's Bryan Derman is live blogging from Finovate in New York City. This is only one of a series of posts featuring Bryan's impressions as over sixty payments technology companies perform 7 minute demos (no PowerPoint slides allowed!) over two days. The index...
Glenbrook's Bryan Derman is live blogging from Finovate in New York City. This is only one of a series of posts featuring Bryan's impressions as over sixty payments technology companies perform 7 minute demos (no PowerPoint slides allowed!) over two days. The index...
