We are delighted to feature another post by Manfred Schuck, a terrific payments consultant from Frankfurt, who will co-lead with Elizabeth McQuerry our upcoming Payments in Europe Insight workshop to be held in Mountain View, CA on October 9. Now, it's about cards....
This week, we are delighted to feature a post by Manfred Schuck, a payments consultant from Frankfurt. Manfred will co-lead with Elizabeth McQuerry our upcoming Payments in Europe Insight workshop to be held in Mountain View, CA on October 9. On January 1st, 2001...
One of the pleasures of joining Glenbrook has been getting to know what and how the other Glebrookers think about what's happening in the payments industry. We talk a lot at Glenbrook. Over iChat, email, mobile phones, Skype, Google Hangout with voice and video,...
Glenbrook's Bryan Derman is in Las Vegas for the 2010 Prepaid Expo. Clearly, you know that an industry has “arrived” when it is able to attract (and afford!) a former U.S. President to speak at its annual convention. Well, any lingering doubts about the importance...
I spent most of 2008 and early 2009 completely obsessed with the credit crisis (evidenced by this index of the best crisis coverage I created just over a year ago). Reading this Andrew Ross Sorkin piece in tomorrow's New York Times got me all riled up again: What...
I've been trying to enjoy the little culture skirmish that surfaced last week as media watchdog Jon Stewart of the Comedy Central took comedian Jim Cramer of CNBC to task for failing to warn the public that the valuation of houses, equities, municipal bonds,...
Amid increased government ownership of Citibank, persistent rumors that BofA is next, and announcement of the Obama administration's budget, there has been increasingly loud debate over bank nationalization. The media pundits and blogosphere are a cry with claims...
Today at The Huffington Post Tim Berry shares the results of a survey conducted last week to explore the availability of business credit via bank loans, commercial credit, SBA loans, etc. The results are not surprising: there's precious little credit available....
In honor of the Oscars this evening, a post on banking and the movies. Last week the film The International opened, featuring Clive Owen and Naomi Watts. The film is about evil, murderous bankers - the bad bank in the movie resembles an International sinister...
This week's Economist includes a Special Report on The Future of Finance (and it's not pretty): Contents: The collapse of finance Why is finance so unstable? Fallible mathematical models When markets turn Playing financial chicken Regulating finance...
