Yesterday Consult Hyperion's Dave Birch paid a visit to Glenbrook World HQ here in Menlo Park. We talked payments, consulting, emerging markets, and blogging. But the highlight was our test of his UK issued contactless payment sticker at the 7-Eleven next to our...
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 launched this Payments Views blog back in February as a place to debate and discuss the Payments News of the day. We're thrilled with your participation in the comments and pleased with the steadily climbing traffic. Looking back over the past year, seven...
Today, I tried an experiment - holding office hours. Isn't that such a throwback to your old college days? Several folks have asked about how it went - so here's a brief summary. Turns out it was good fun - and hopefully this also proves to be productive for...
A little shameless Glenbrook promotion, forgive us. Today our partner Allen Weinberg spoke at the San Francisco Treasury Management Association (the local AFP) monthly lunch about emerging payments: PayPal, Amazon, Google Checkout, and many, many more start-ups...
Each year, Glenbrook attempts the impossible – to create a simple table showing U.S. payments system volumes, by both “amount” (dollar value) and “count” (number of transactions) - all mapped to payments domains. We use the term “domain” to refer to the purpose of...
Last week Glenbrook conducted an "Opportunities in B2B Payments" workshop in New York City. Erin McCune and I led the workshop, which was attended by product strategists from card networks, NACHA, The Clearing House, major banks, processors, software and service...
We've tabulated the results of last week's Web 2.0 survey - if you haven't taken it, don't worry you still can; we re-opened the survey and the link is here. (We'll update our results in another week or so, once a sizeable number of new responses are in.) Summary...
My partner Scott Loftesness and I are teaching a workshop on Web 2.0 and Financial Services this coming Thursday, March 19th. In preparation, we'd like to gauge the level of Web 2.0 participation in the Glenbrook community. There are only two questions and it...
For all who are interested, I've posted an article titled "Creating PaymentsViews.com" that walks through the steps I followed to get this new PaymentsViews.com blog "on the air". We're using WordPress, Media Temple (hosting) and the excellent Thesis theme by Chris...
