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While the list of start-ups focused on mobile payments for digital content, eCommerce physical goods and/or person-to-person transfers continues to grow, another part of the industry is biding its time, with an eye on what may be a much larger prize.
What’s at stake are point-of-sale, in-person payments – what Glenbrook estimates to be roughly $4 [...]
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Among other recent interviews on mobile payments, we took a look last month at two companies (Boku and Zong) that are focusing on bill-to-carrier models for digital content purchases in the online gaming arena. Fascinating, but surely (for my demographic, at any rate) a niche market – after all, how many times have you spent [...]
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Editors Note: Glenbrook, along with the rest of the payments industry, has been watching developments in mobile payments closely. This is one of a series of posts by our partner Carol Coye Benson. Thus far she has profiled Boku, CashEdge products, Canada’s Zoompass, Zong, Billing Revolution, and Blaze Mobile. Today she takes a look at [...]
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Editors Note: Glenbrook, along with the rest of the payments industry, has been watching developments in mobile payments closely. A few weeks ago, our partner Carol Coye Benson profiled Boku and CashEdge products. Today, she takes a look at Canada’s Zoompass (below), Zong, Billing Revolution, and Blaze Mobile. [UPDATE Aug 6th: Be sure to check [...]
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Editors Note: Glenbrook, along with the rest of the payments industry, has been watching developments in mobile payments closely. A few weeks ago, our partner Carol Coye Benson profiled Boku and CashEdge products. Today, she takes a look at Canada’s Zoompass, Zong, Billing Revolution, and Blaze Mobile (below). [UPDATE Aug 6th: Be sure to check [...]
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Editors Note: Glenbrook, along with the rest of the payments industry, has been watching developments in mobile payments closely. A few weeks ago, our partner Carol Coye Benson profiled Boku and CashEdge products. Today, she takes a look at Canada’s Zoompass, Zong (below), Billing Revolution, and Blaze Mobile. [UPDATE Aug 6th: Be sure to check [...]
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Editors Note: Glenbrook, along with the rest of the payments industry, has been watching developments in mobile payments closely. A few weeks ago, our partner Carol Coye Benson profiled Boku and CashEdge products. Today, she takes a look at Canada’s Zoompass, Zong, Billing Revolution (below), and Blaze Mobile. [UPDATE Aug 6th: Be sure to check [...]
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Editor’s Note: This is one of a pair of ACH commentaries that we are publishing today on Payments Views. Be sure to also read Erin McCune’s post “The Future of ACH.”
There is a tremendous focus on the ACH network right now within the payments industry – and with good reason. The ACH is the sleeping [...]
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Many of us in the United States who follow the continuing evolution of the ACH network have been interested in the United Kingdom’s “Faster Payments” initiative. FP just hit the one-year-since-launch milestone. I spoke with David McFarlane, Company Manager, CHAPS Clearing Company about FP. I was surprised by much of what he said: FP is [...]
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Editors Note: Glenbrook, along with the rest of the payments industry, has been watching developments in mobile payments closely. Our partner Carol Coye Benson profiles the CashEdge POPmoney product today. She has also taken a look at Boku, Canada’s Zoompass, Zong, Billing Revolution, and Blaze Mobile. [UPDATE Aug 6th: Be sure to check out Carol’s [...]
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Each year, Glenbrook attempts the impossible – to create a simple table showing U.S. payments system volumes, by both “amount” (dollar value) and “count” (number of transactions) – all mapped to payments domains. We use the term “domain” to refer to the purpose of the payment – so that purchases at the point of [...]
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Editors Note: Glenbrook, along with the rest of the payments industry, has been watching developments in mobile payments closely. Our partner Carol Coye Benson profiles Boku today. She has also taken a look at the CashEdge’s POPmoney, Canada’s Zoompass, Zong, Billing Revolution, and Blaze Mobile. [UPDATE Aug 6th: Be sure to check out Carol’s latest [...]
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Last week Glenbrook conducted an “Opportunities in B2B Payments” workshop in New York City. Erin McCune and I led the workshop, which was attended by product strategists from card networks, NACHA, The Clearing House, major banks, processors, software and service providers and payments start-up companies. The group had significant experience in B2B payments and shared [...]
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… and Why ‘Decoupled Debit’ Could Change All That
I was fascinated to read that Bank of America is now including debit cards in its card payment business line. Now, for anyone outside of our payments industry, this sounds absolutely reasonable. But from inside the industry, it’s pretty strange.
The financial services industry, presumably like any service [...]
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At Glenbrook, we’re pretty interested in what makes mass consumer adoption of new payments capabilities happen – or not. We’ve been talking lately about “brand as action” – the notion that consumers (and merchants) need a way to express how they are going to pay or be paid.
This can be brand with a “capital B” [...]
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