Curious about what payments professionals were reading last year? Here are the top books ranked by sales made through our Payments News Book Store on Amazon.com: Payments Systems in the U.S. - A Guide for the Payments ProfessionalWritten by Carol Coye Benson and...
As we're winding down for the year, we wish you the best for you and your family this holiday season! At Glenbrook, we thrive on thinking about how payments are evolving and how these changes will affect us in the years ahead. In this look back at the important...
For those of us following the evolution of mobile payments in the US, it was quite a week indeed. What with PayPal’s peek behind the curtain at enabling its users to pay at physical POS merchants and MasterCard’s Investor Day briefing and demonstrations of its...
Every so often, we can be witnesses to disruptive innovation in action. It’s exciting when it happens - for those who see it. Alas, most don’t see it - although they will eventually. Which pair of glasses are you peering through? For those who can see it, there’s...
Some 17 months ago, I wrote a post here titled "It's Hip to Be Square" following the launch of Jack Dorsey's then new company. At the time I wrote:Square seems to be aiming at democratizing merchant card acceptance for physical face-to-face card transactions – a...
In a VeriFone press release today titled "VeriFone Says Merchant Buy-In Key to Success of Mobile Commerce", VeriFone CEO Doug Bergeron outlined six "rules" that he said "industry participants need to adhere to in order to ensure success of mobile commerce."...
I’m sure you’ve seen it - there’s been so much “buzz” in the press over the last few weeks about mobile payments. Yet, in our partners' meeting at Glenbrook earlier this week, I told my colleagues that if I knew of a way to short "mobile payments", I'd be all over...
One of the more interesting elements added late in the game to the Durbin amendment was the language added around card-related fraud costs. This has led to much speculation about what this might mean for various anti-fraud technologies (e.g., EMV in the US, a...
Today, I tried an experiment - holding office hours. Isn't that such a throwback to your old college days? Several folks have asked about how it went - so here's a brief summary. Turns out it was good fun - and hopefully this also proves to be productive for...
Today's announcement of American Express acquiring Revolution Money caught many of us industry pundits by surprise - especially given the $300 MM price tag that Amex paid for the deal. But, upon reflection, and after listening to the Q&A section of Amex's...
