What are central banks – and governments – going to do about cryptocurrencies? I was in New York last week to better understand what central bankers are thinking about - and doing - with respect to “Digital Fiat Currency”. The workshop was part of an ITU Focus Group...
In Glenbrook’s Payments Boot Camp™, we are always talking about payments systems - how they work, how they evolved, who uses them, who provides them, who profits from them, and how they are changing. So I was a little surprised when one of the participants approached...
Tax Day has come and gone, and Americans have filed our returns and many of us even took the time to itemize our charitable contributions. According to the IRS, these contributions totaled over $390B in 2016 – a new record year of giving. While the rise in giving is...
In my state’s recent midterm primary elections, I voted for the referendum on legalizing recreational marijuana. It reminded me of recent conversations I’ve had with payments professionals trying to tackle the issue of providing safe and secure financial services to...
I had a chance to visit the Amazon Go Store recently and wanted to speculate a bit on how it all works, from a payments perspective, and think about the implications. The new concept store, if you haven’t heard, eliminates the all-sacred checkout. Who cares about...
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 inclusion, and crypto...
For those companies and individuals most committed to building the EMV and NFC ecosystems, the place to be February 3rd through 7th was Salt Lake City where the Smart Card Alliance hosted both an EMV Migration Forum meeting and its annual Payments Summit. Over 525...
What a year it has been! Twelve months ago, there were still people in our industry who didn’t know what Bitcoin was. There were still people who believed that EMV would roll out in the U.S. just like it did in the U.K. There were still people who thought that the...
Glenbrook has observed that as businesses develop increasingly sophisticated payment capabilities, they often need to revisit their organizational structure. Due to the importance of payments, fraud and exception processing to the bottom-line, many eCommerce merchants...
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...
