Research Results: Need for Faster, Easier Cross-Border Payments

by Erin McCune | Apr 4, 2011

New Glenbrook research, sponsored by Earthport, indicates that as companies do business with an increasing number of customers and suppliers over seas, they desire better cross-border payment systems.  Slow funds clearing, complicated reconciliation, and lack of...

Reflections on Sibos 2010

by Erin McCune | Oct 29, 2010

This week I’ve been in Amsterdam for Sibos – the annual international banking conference sponsored by SWIFT. (For those of you who aren’t familiar with SWIFT it is a consortium of worldwide banks that runs a global secure network connecting banks in...

Payments Milestone: CHIPS is 40 Today

by Erin McCune | Apr 6, 2010

Today, The Clearing House’s CHIPS wire payment system is 40 years old: ancient for an electronic payment system. It is one of two wire payment systems in the United States; the second is FedWire operated by the Federal Reserve. Wires constitute a relatively small...

Is Global eCommerce Really Such a Dark and Scary Place?

by jayd | Apr 5, 2010

Here at Glenbrook, we work closely with eCommerce merchants on issues and opportunities that they confront every day. Increasingly, the questions we hear surround the topic of “going global” — “What countries should I sell into? What local...

Localization of Payments: Lessons from Online Travel

by formadaadmin | Feb 3, 2010

Written by Jacqueline Chilton based on a speeches and panel discussion at ATPS 2009 – Airline and Travel Payments Summit (Link to presentations) – Save the date for ATPS 2010 in San Francisco, Nov 30 – Dec 1, 2010 Localization is one of the key trends influencing the...