Glenbrook Research: Credit Card Acceptance for B2B Payments

At Glenbrook we believe that B2B payments are among the most compelling opportunities in the payment industry today. Card acceptance is growing, yet businesses lack the tools to efficiently process transactions. My colleague Carol Coye Benson and I recently published...

Addicted to Credit

In a frankly depressing but undoubtedly realistic column this morning titled “National Addiction to Easy Credit Remains Consumers’ Downfall”, Michelle Singletary, the Washington Post’s personal finance columnist, writes that the credit card...

This Revolution Will Be Televised

Fresh off raising another $42 million of star-studded (Goldman Sachs this time) venture capital, Steve Case and Jason Hogg came to the NACHA Payments 2009 conference today to tell the banking world about their payments “Revolution”. Apart from reiterating...

What’s Your Hurry? Here’s Your Hat!

In his New Yorker column this week titled “House of Cards”, James Surowiecki writes about how some US credit card issuers are trying to shed some of their existing customers.In effect, they’re trying to follow the advice given by Larry Selden and Geoffrey...