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I jumped at the opportunity to interview Jason Hogg, CEO of Revolution Money, parent company of Revolution Card. My colleagues and I at Glenbrook Partners are frequently tapped as a source of information about the very latest goings on in the world of “alternative payments”, but unfortunately, Revolution doesn’t share a whole lot of key [...]
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Ashok Misra has an interesting, and certainly provocative, article in the current Secure Payments Magazine. If you don’t know Ashok, he is Sr. Manager Payments & Security at RealNetworks, Inc in Seattle, chairman of the European CNP Payment Forum, and a long-time friend of Glenbrook Partners. In the article, he comments that the current credit [...]
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A little shameless Glenbrook promotion, forgive us.
Today our partner Allen Weinberg spoke at the San Francisco Treasury Management Association (the local AFP) monthly lunch about emerging payments: PayPal, Amazon, Google Checkout, and many, many more start-ups nipping at their heels. The crowd – half bankers and half corporate cash managers/treasury professionals – loved it.
If your [...]
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MORNING SESSION #1 – Whew – what a whirlwind! Companies get 7 minutes to demo their products/services before the microphone is cut off. Some very interesting stuff flying by at warp speed (so please excuse the grammar/any typos)!
So here goes:
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Next up at today’s Merchant Risk Council session was Terry Jones, the founder and former CEO of Travelocity.com – and a FABULOUS speaker!
Jones spoke about impact of the Internet on industries, citing travel as being impacted the most; half of all travel is booked online; more volume than the next four categories of ecommerce combined [...]
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Former Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and Governor of Pennsylvania Tom Ridge keynoted this morning’s opening of the Merchant Risk Council. What a great speaker! Note that Ridge also sits on the board of Ethoca (www.ethoca.com).
Ridge focused on managing risk in environment of uncertainty. He cited ties fraud to [...]
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Is Now the Time for Online PIN Debit?
This session was presented by Mike Strada from Chase Paymentech. Mike is a fan of online PIN debit, especially the notion of giving merchants more choices. His discussion focused on the different options the 12 North American debit networks are exploring.
Several of the debit networks are [...]
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I‘m in Las Vegas today attending the Merchant Risk Council’s Platinum Day Sessions. I’ll be blogging my comments from the sessions here along with my colleague Jay DeWitt who’s also attending this year’s MRC.
Fraud Prevention on eBay Marketplace
Unfortunately my plane landed such that I was only able to catch the tail end of [...]
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Glenbrook’s Allen Weinberg is attending this week’s Payments 2008 conference in Las Vegas. Here’s Allen’s first report from today’s sessions.
This year’s NACHA Payment conference offered an incredible array of sessions, making the choices difficult indeed. In fact, most time slots offered 12, yes 12, concurrent sessions, of which at least 4 or [...]
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by Allen Weinberg
Glenbrook’s Allen Weinberg and Jim Salters are attending this week’s Payments 2008 conference in Las Vegas. Here’s Allen’s first report from today’s sessions.
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by Allen Weinberg
This year’s annual ETA seemed bigger than in previous years, and from almost everyone that I spoke to, much more exhausting. In my humble opinion, this was the first year that had a really compelling set of sessions to choose from. Unfortunately, I and quite a few others were never able [...]
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Glenbrook’s Allen Weinberg was at the 2007 annual Electronic Transactions Association’s Annual Meeting & Expo in April in Las Vegas. Allen filed a report from the Expo over on Payments News.
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By Allen Weinberg
With online payment fraud now entering its second decade, recent fraud studies are somewhat encouraging and show that the percentage of revenue lost by eCommerce merchants to online fraud is declining. But these same studies also underscore that with the steady growth of online commerce and digital goods and services, the actual sales [...]
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By Allen Weinberg
In his recent keynote address at the Direct Response Forum (DRF) conference in San Francisco, Glenbrook’s Allen Weinberg explored the payments acceptance landscape, how it relates to card-not-present merchants, and offered his assessment on what it may mean.
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