Demystifying India’s Digital Payment Infrastructure

by Shiv Vadivelalagan | Mar 23, 2017

There is a growing curiosity about India’s payments systems. These systems, and their role in the “India stack”, have been the subject of many articles speculating their importance in shaping India’s future. Despite this attention, there is still considerable...

My Half Life in Payments

by scott | Sep 30, 2015

Earlier this year, I was invited to keynote a conference in Sydney – something I always enjoy doing.  The conference sponsor wanted me to talk about disruptions, about how successful innovations in payments come into the world, and to provide a look inside...

Back from the Future: Bitcoin2014 Musings

by Erin McCune | May 20, 2014

Last week I was in Amsterdam for the second annual conference hosted by the The Bitcoin Foundation. As a strategist and advocate for ever-better payment solutions, I was very curious to learn how the Bitcoin protocol and its emerging enablers can address some of the...

Glenbrook Launches Insight Workshop Bitcoin: Basics and Beyond

by George Peabody | Apr 10, 2014

Any reader of Payments Views knows that most of us at Glenbrook are impressed by the potential of math-based currencies (MBCs). And all of us agree that participants in the payments industry (in the broadest sense) need to understand Bitcoin and its crypto-currency...

The Age of Context and Security

by George Peabody | Jan 13, 2014

The news from Target, increasing the number of cards compromised to 70 million and the expansion of data loss to mailing and email addresses, phone numbers, and names, affirms that we’re in a security crisis.  As my colleague Scott Loftesness puts it, card data is,...