What’s Your GPA?

by jayd | May 29, 2014

As a biller or merchant, you are vitally concerned about your payments “back office”, that set of core functions involved with accepting consumer payments. Whether you are in Treasury or Technology, if you are concerned with payments, you are asking yourself, every...

Is AribaPay a Game Changer for B2B Payments? Maybe. For now we have more questions than answers.

by Erin McCune | May 24, 2013

Recently Ariba/SAP and Discover announced that they intend to “transform” commercial payments. AribaPay is either the most significant B2B payments news in decades or just one more courageous entrant into the discouraging battlefield of B2B payments networks. We’re...

Co-Dependence Between Banks and Their Technologists: Hampering Innovation

by Erin McCune | May 7, 2012

Talking to banks and the biggest bank technology vendors at NACHA’s annual payments conference last week I couldn’t help thinking how they suffer from similar challenges. Big banks are hampered by their complex technology environment of legacy solutions with layers of...

The Dawn of a New Era for Small Biz Banking? [Dispatch from NACHA Payments 2012]

by Erin McCune | May 7, 2012

I was at NACHA’s annual payments conference last week and the most interesting things I heard and saw had to do with small business banking and payments, a long suffering, underserved segment of the market. There’ve been glimmers of hope for small business off and on...

Cross-Border Payments Perspectives [New Glenbrook Research]

by Erin McCune | Sep 20, 2011

Glenbrook recently conducted two surveys to develop a detailed understanding of the ideal cross-border payments solution from the perspectives of both payments professionals and payments initiators. We are publishing the results today to coincide with Sibos, the...