From the category archives:
In a post titled “Great since day one“, Marco Arment blogs about what makes the iPhone different – in essence he writes that Apple makes products that are great today. Android isn’t.
Reading his post brought to mind the fragmented nature of the card payments ecosystem that we live in – and how it’s so [...]
{ 1 comment }
There, did I get your attention? … Tonight’s headlines say it even more clearly – see this Wall St. Journal story titled “Merchants Win Debit-Card Fee Battle“. Or, see this post on PaymentsNews.com about the Durbin compromise announced earlier today.
Seriously, it seems to me that there’s a bit of a sleeper buried in all [...]
{ 3 comments }
I’ve been amazed by what I’ve been reading of late from the “analyst” firms commenting on the Durbin Amendment. A lot of what I’ve seen makes me wonder whether these folks should turn in their analyst licenses and simply register as paid lobbyists for their big bank clientele. (The Durbin amendment, for those not in [...]
{ 5 comments }
The dramatic vote on the Durbin amendment is causing panic, again, among retail bankers – who were last shocked by the Fed’s overdraft ruling. I wrote about that in November (Watch Out! Big Changes in Retail Bank Pricing Are Coming).
I think the underlying problem that banks are dealing with is that too much of their [...]
{ 3 comments }
Glenbrook’s Erin McCune is in Orlando for BAI’s Payments Connect conference.
John Stewart of Digital Transaction News moderated an open discussion exploring the most pressing issues in e-payments. It picked up on the list of 10 pressing themes raised in the November issue (pgs. 26-32). The panelists were:
Aaron Fine, Oliver Wyman
David [...]
{ 0 comments }
Glenbrook’s Bryan Derman is in Las Vegas for the 2010 Prepaid Expo.
Clearly, you know that an industry has “arrived” when it is able to attract (and afford!) a former U.S. President to speak at its annual convention. Well, any lingering doubts about the importance and sustainability of the prepaid card industry were probably addressed [...]
{ 0 comments }
Where are you? What did you buy? How much did you pay? Did you get a deal? This might sound like your teenager on their phone, but it’s what a new company called Blippy hopes to answer with a new Web 2.0 service.
Here’s the basic premise. What if you could broadcast everything you bought in [...]
{ 4 comments }
Glenbrook launched this Payments Views blog back in February as a place to debate and discuss the Payments News of the day. We’re thrilled with your participation in the comments and pleased with the steadily climbing traffic. Looking back over the past year, seven popular topics and recurring themes stand out:
{ 0 comments }
The pre-workshops and part of the first day at ATPS 2009 focused on fraud. Here’s a round up of my impressions after a full day of panel discussion, presentations, and breakout sessions. Once the presentations are up on the ATPS site I will provide links to each speaker’s deck. Presentations are here.
According to 41st Parameter, [...]
{ 0 comments }
Alternative payments were the first topic of the day at ATPS 2009. Here’s a round up of my impressions after a full day of panel discussion and presentations. Once the presentations are up on the ATPS site I will provide links to each speaker’s deck. Presentations are here.
Merchants have increasingly moved to accept payments other [...]
{ 0 comments }
Glenbrook Partner’s Jacqueline Chilton is in Miami this week for the Airline and Travel Payments Summit. She is moderating a panel on localisation at 2pm on Thursday:
Lessons learned: Localised payments are a key part of improving your bottom line in a global ecommerce world. What are the challenges and issues, from implementation to selection – [...]
{ 0 comments }
Erin McCune and I attended the Association for Finance Professionals conference in San Francisco on Monday and Tuesday. With 4,000 plus “practitioners” and vendors there, and a robust Payments Track, there was a lot of food for thought. A standout session was “Same Day ACH” with Rich Oliver of the Fed (and the [...]
{ 0 comments }
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 [...]
{ 0 comments }
The Glenbrook team is devouring advance copies of “Priceless: The Case that Brought Down the Visa/MasterCard Bank Cartel” by Lloyd Constantine.
All I can say is “wow”! This is juicy reading that I’m sure all payments professionals will want to add to their book bag!
From the advance material on the book:
Priceless offers readers an insider’s telling [...]
{ 1 comment }
Note: this commentary could be subtitled: “How my trip to the U.K. left me with a chip on my shoulder!”
When I was a child, I remember preparing for international travel by accompanying my parents to our local bank branch to purchase traveler’s checks. It wasn’t exactly convenient – but they felt safer traveling [...]
{ 6 comments }
GLENBROOK PAYMENTS BOOT CAMPS
October 6-7, 2010, Santa Clara, CA
October 27-28, 2010, New York, NY
December 8-9, 2010, Santa Clara, CA
Custom Private Payments Workshops
Headlines from Payments News
