Are you planning to attend NACHA Payments 2010 in Seattle April 25-28? If so, let us know. Glenbrook will be there. Erin McCune and Russ Jones are speaking on the emerging world of social payments and the B2B cash payment challenges. Carol Coye Benson and Jay DeWitt will be meeting with vendors and industry leaders. [...]
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:
Today, I tried an experiment – holding office hours. Isn’t that such a throwback to your old college days? Several folks have asked about how it went – so here’s a brief summary. Turns out it was good fun – and hopefully this also proves to be productive for Glenbrook in [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
My partner Scott Loftesness and I are teaching a workshop on Web 2.0 and Financial Services this coming Thursday, March 19th.
In preparation, we’d like to gauge the level of Web 2.0 participation in the Glenbrook community. There are only two questions and it won’t take more than 2 minutes of your time (if that).
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For all who are interested, I’ve posted an article titled “Creating PaymentsViews.com” that walks through the steps I followed to get this new PaymentsViews.com blog “on the air”.
We’re using WordPress, Media Temple (hosting) and the excellent Thesis theme by Chris Pearson to drive Payments Views.
We’ll be talking more about blogging and other web [...]
Glenbrook, in cooperation with Forte Financial just finished our first Payments Workshop on B2B payments, called “eB2B Payments at the Tipping Point“.
Attendees from American Express, MasterCard, Visa, JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo, Intuit and PayPal, among others, steeped themselves in the arcane world of corporate Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable systems and discussed the myriad array [...]