I’m at the Kansas City Federal Reserve Bank’s conference on Consumer Payment Innovation. Bruce Summers, Former Director, Federal Reserve Information Technology, just finished presenting a major paper on payments system infrastructure and the Fed’s potential role in new systems in the future. The paper, which builds on an earlier paper coming out of the Chicago Fed’s Symposium on [...]
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We’ve launched a new research effort exploring best practices among merchants about how payments and fraud risk management functions are organized, staffed, and measured. If you work in the payments or fraud risk management functions for a merchant, please take a few minutes to complete our survey. In exchange for your help, we’ll share the [...]
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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 annual international banking conference taking place this week in Toronto. Our research was sponsored by Earthport LLC. In March 2011 [...]
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Informal conversation with Glenbrook clients suggests that different companies have developed different organization structures to manage the ever-increasing complexity of payments. We are eager to learn how your company manages payments, and how your payments organization is evolving – whether you are a biller, eCommerce merchant, or retailer; whether you sell to consumers or businesses (or both). [...]
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New Glenbrook research, sponsored by Earthport, indicates that as companies do business with an increasing number of customers and suppliers over seas, they desire better cross-border payment systems. Slow funds clearing, complicated reconciliation, and lack of transparency in foreign exchange fees make cross-border payments particularly challenging for businesses large and small. These are among several key [...]
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Companies of all sizes have adopted accounts payable (AP) automation solutions, yet recent IAPP-TAWPI and Glenbrook research reveals that e-invoicing benefits remain elusive. Semantics Electronic invoicing, or e-invoicing, means different things to different people, and much depends on the context. There are solutions that cater to accounts receivable, focused on enabling efficient creation and delivery [...]
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Last week we asked readers to help us capture a snapshot of U.S. market contactless/RFID terminalization. We were pleased to get 43 brave souls to respond. Here are the (admittedly anything but scientific) results:
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It’s the holidays and the online retail sales are… well… who knows? We’re seeing data points all over the map. comScore is reporting better-than-they-expected 4% growth over the the previous year. U.S. online holiday spending has grown 4% to nearly $21 billion during the first 43 days of the November-December shopping season, according to comScore [...]
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The Airlines & Travel Payments Summit 2009 held a preconference session on fraud yesterday. Managing online fraud is a significant cost for carriers around the world. CyberSource’s Paul Brock spoke on improving automation to increase fraud detection. The key to identifying fraud is finding common characteristics, which can be used in automated detection and defining [...]
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The WSJ reports today that as economic uncertainty persists, large companies are more successful than smaller companies in retaining their cash. They do so by paying their suppliers later – delaying payment out to 120 days or more in some cases – while simultaneously tightening the credit terms they offer their own customers, forcing them [...]
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A new report from Forrester underscores a theme that my partner Carol Coye Benson and I have been championing for months now. Widespread adoption of B2B electronic payments is dependent upon an open directory that allows business buyers that want to pay electronically find out which of their myriad of suppliers accept electronic payment and [...]
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CFO.com summarizes the most recent Forrester “TechRadar” report on financial software. Not surprisingly, economic woes are driving businesses’ need for accounts receivable and collections software to help companies monitor their customers payment behavior. Budgeting and forecasting solutions as well as expense reporting tools are also in high demand. Accounts Payable solutions are up and coming [...]
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At Glenbrook we believe that B2B payments are among the most compelling opportunities in the payment industry today. Card acceptance is growing, yet businesses lack the tools to efficiently process transactions. My colleague Carol Coye Benson and I recently published the findings from a series of interviews with business-to-business suppliers about credit card acceptance that [...]
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Today at The Huffington Post Tim Berry shares the results of a survey conducted last week to explore the availability of business credit via bank loans, commercial credit, SBA loans, etc. The results are not surprising: there’s precious little credit available. We’ve been reading those headlines and statistics for weeks now. But what struck me [...]
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