Reflections: Back to the Future

Today, Glenbrook celebrates its 15th birthday. It’s been quite a journey – an amazing one in so many ways – yet it also sometimes feels like we’re still on Day One! There’s so much happening in payments – and, more broadly, in commerce, financial...

Who do consumers trust more for Payments: Banks or PayPal?

[via Bank Technology News] [excerpt] Both studies were conducted in August 2008 and released within days of each other in late September — before a string of disastrous financial firsts in October clearly eroded consumers' trust in banks. Both companies...

P2P Lending Services Suffer as Credit Crisis Intensifies

TechCrunch observes that Prosper and other peer-to-peer lenders like Zopa and Lending Club may turn out to be collateral damage from the credit crisis. Coverage: New York Times article TechCrunch (great graphs) PaymentsNews (links to annoucements from P2P...

Finovate 2008 via NetBanker

Due to a last minute change of plans I am not in NYC for Finovate2008 (and very disappointed) but you can follow along with Jim Bruene who is live blogging at NetBanker. I will add links to additional live and post-meeting coverage over the next couple days, so...