by Elizabeth McQuerry | Apr 28, 2014
Walmart’s announcement that it would offer store-to-store money transfers has a number of interesting aspects worth pondering. At a high level, this seems like a no brainer. People need to send money to other people and lots of folks find themselves in Walmart’s...
by Carol Coye Benson | Dec 5, 2013
I was fortunate enough to spend a day yesterday at Bill Maurer’s IMTFI (Institute for Money, Technology and Financial Inclusion) conference at UC Irvine. Bill is an anthropologist, and his institute funds fascinating small projects in developing countries that look...
by Elizabeth McQuerry | Oct 5, 2012
One of the more interesting aspects of joining Glenbrook is the essential need to stay up to date with new market developments and product enhancements. (Oh, the luxury to focus on what’s new and happening in payments!) One of the areas I’m interested in is bill...
by Carol Coye Benson | Mar 27, 2012
This is conference week for me! Today I’m sitting at Mobile Money Americas in Mexico City, with a fascinating group of people working on mobile wallets in countries throughout the region. Of the 129 live mobile money projects worldwide (and let’s not get distracted,...
by formadaadmin | Feb 1, 2012
Consumers transfer tens of billions of dollars from the United States each year in international remittances. In 2009 the World Bank estimated that US$48 billion was sent from American consumers to friends and family in other countries, a number that represents 0.3%...
