By Jacqueline Chilton The Airlines & Travel Payments Summit 2009 held a preconference session on fraud yesterday. Managing online fraud is a significant cost for carriers around the world. CyberSource’s Paul Brock spoke on improving automation to increase fraud...
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...
Today's announcement of American Express acquiring Revolution Money caught many of us industry pundits by surprise - especially given the $300 MM price tag that Amex paid for the deal. But, upon reflection, and after listening to the Q&A section of Amex's...
I'm attending the PayPal Developers Conference this week and want to share some initial impressions about the Paypal platform and what it might mean in the world of payments. First off, the combined weight of the new products, partner demonstrations, and new...
Amazon.com fancies itself, with some justification, as a trialblazer in eCommerce. We spoke with Amazon recently to get a better sense of PayPhrase and how it might be used by today's consumers. Amazon PayPhrase is a new checkout concept that is designed to provide...
Erin McCune and I attended the Association for Finance Professionals conference in San Francisco on Monday and Tuesday. With 4,000 plus "practitioners" and vendors there, and a robust Payments Track, there was a lot of food for thought. A standout session was "Same...
At Glenbrook, we're fascinated by the topics of mobile payments (in general); the potential for new ACH applications; and the continued growth of eCommerce. So it was great to talk to Conrad Sheehan, CEO of mobile payment startup mPayy - who has moved his company...
Among other recent interviews on mobile payments, we took a look last month at two companies (Boku and Zong) that are focusing on bill-to-carrier models for digital content purchases in the online gaming arena. Fascinating, but surely (for my demographic, at any...
Internet Retailer recently published the 2009 Edition of its Top 500 Guide, which provides profiles and statistics on "America's 500 Largest Retail Web Sites". eCommerce professionals look forward to its publication every June not only to see the relative rankings of...
Editors Note: Glenbrook, along with the rest of the payments industry, has been watching developments in mobile payments closely. Our partner Carol Coye Benson profiles Boku today. She has also taken a look at the CashEdge's POPmoney, Canada’s Zoompass, Zong, Billing...
