I'm in Europe this week teaching, along with my partner Carol Coye Benson, a private payments workshop. This is the first time we've done this in Europe - and we're looking forward to it!Flying over on United Airlines, I couldn't help but notice the new optical bar...
While I don’t manage to attend every year, the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago’s annual payment conference remains one of my favorites. The Chicago Fed has a great payments team that works hard at putting together a timely program, but I like this event because it...
Today, AT&T announces a test of 2D barcodes for mobile at the point of sale (POS). This pilot will be watched with interest. If it works, couponing/loyalty applications on the phone will no longer need to wait for chipset or hardware development to interact...
I am just returned from the 25th anniversary International CTIA Wireless conference Las Vegas. An estimated 40,000 people were expected to attend and from the look of things, that number seemed right. It was encouraging seeing companies willing to travel for a...
Are you planning on attending International CTIA WIRELESS 2010 March 22-25 at the Las Vegas Convention Center? Jacqueline Chilton will be moderating a panel and meeting with vendors and industry leaders. We’d enjoy talking to you so please reach out. Glenbrook’s...
Glenbrook’s Erin McCune is in Orlando for BAI’s Payments Connect conference. John Stewart of Digital Transaction News moderated an open discussion exploring the most pressing issues in e-payments. It picked up on the list of 10 pressing themes raised in the...
When it comes to mobile payments in the U.S. market, there’s a lot of talk and action around P2P and remote purchasing (bill to carrier models, etc.). But the biggest potential is our huge POS (point of sale) market. This market today is arguably the best-served...
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...
For the last several months, Glenbrook's Carol Coye Benson has been interviewing a number of companies involved in mobile payments in the U.S. and Canada. The companies included are Billing Revolution, Blaze Mobile, Bling Nation, Boku, CashEdge, First Data Corp.,...
One of the good things about having a really odd company name is that people do remember it. We mostly heard skeptical laughs when Bling Nation first emerged from stealth. But lately we’ve been getting more questions…. I spoke recently to co-CEO and founder...
