The interdependence of eGovernment and government ePayments is yet another classic payment chicken and egg challenge. As we work with governments to build their electronic payment strategies we sometimes need to temper their expectations given this all-too-familiar...
Informal conversation with Glenbrook clients suggests that different companies have developed different organization structures to manage the ever-increasing complexity of payments. We are eager to learn how your company manages payments, and how your...
Last year I attended the original BarCampBank San Francisco and had a fantastic time (I blogged about the experience here.) It is an unstructured, participant-organized, conference on banking/payments/financial services innovation. BarCampBank events have been held...
Photo: SF Chronicle The SF Chronicle interviews Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf in today's paper. The Wells Fargo - Wachovia merger blog inspired rave reviews and sets the bar high for other financial institutions considering blogging The Finanser (Chris Skinner)...
The NYTimes interviews leading Silicon Valley VCs and finds that while Web 2.0 enthusiasm is waning, interest in SaaS Enterprise applications is growing. Instead, venture capitalists will invest in open-source software, Web-based software, Internet-based cloud...
Over at the Bankervision blog an exchange between leading banking bloggers Chris Skinner (of FinanSer) and James Gardner (at Bankervision) has prompted a lively exchange of comments from the banking and social media community online. This is my contribution to the...
Over at Information Arbitrage Roger Ehrenberg has just posted on the business dynamics of companies that will be the winners in the future. The winners of tomorrow will necessarily look different. Businesses that are not yet commoditized and, therefore, have high...
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...
Food for thought from today's NYTimes biz section:After spending decades growing and merging themselves into their behemoth proportions, big businesses are rediscovering the charms — and the innovative side effects — of thinking small. By breaking huge...
[This is just one of my series of posts from the NACHA Payments 2008 conference in Las Vegas.] How To Turn Your Online Bill Pay Expense into a Revenue Stream [NACHA Payments] Peter Gordon Partner, eCom Advisors Synopsis from Conference Program For a decade,...
