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Over on our sister blog PaymentsViews.com, I share some of my thoughts about today's announcement of American Express acquiring Revolution Money. It's a bold move towards innovation by a company that's been slow to move in the past. Read my post and share your comments - would love to know what you think!
Over on our PaymentsViews.com sister blog, Glenbrook's Russ Jones shares his perspective on what he found to be the most interesting item to come of our PayPal's Developer Conference earlier this week: PayPal Adaptive Accounts.
Glenbrook announces the initiation of a new Payments Essentials Webinar series – designed to help the experienced payments professional find the “needle in the haystack” in emerging payments.
Our first webinars are targeted to eCommerce merchants and draw on Glenbrook’s many years of work with major eCommerce merchants, helping them to understand and evaluate market developments and solutions providers. The first webinar, “eCommerce Debit and Cash Alternatives for the U.S. Market” is on December 15th at 10:30AM PST. Glenbrook Partners Russ Jones and Jay DeWitt are presenting. More details on the agenda are at the registration site.
The fee to attend the webinar is $149. By special arrangement with the Merchant Risk Council, merchant members of MRC may register for this webinar at no cost. Glenbrook Payments Boot Camp and Workshop alumni may register at a discounted rate.
Register now! Questions? Email: webinars@glenbrook.com.
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Glenbrook's Carol Coye Benson writes:
Our revised and updated Payments Boot Camp curriculum has an extensive focus on what's happening in mobile payments as well as the new debit, ACH and prepaid products, opportunities and challenges. We've also added new coverage of the emerging arena of social payments.
Stay current! Sign up now for an upcoming session of our Payments Boot Camp:
New! Are you an Accredited ACH Professional? Glenbrook’s Payments Boot Camps are now accredited for over 15 hours of AAP continuing education credits.
See our Payments Education website for details and online registration, or contact Glenbrook Partner Carol Coye Benson with questions.
Over on PaymentsViews.com, Glenbrook's Carol Coye Benson takes a look at mFoundry with her interview of CEO Drew Sievers.
Carol writes:
In the short-term, the killer app for mFoundry will be frequent-use, closed-loop stored value cards – delivered not by NFC but by the use of 2D bar codes. The Starbucks test announced last week is the first of what Sievers claims will be multiple announcements coming from mFoundry in the near future.
Over on PaymentsViews.com, Glenbrook's Carol Coye Benson takes a look at mobile payments provider Payfone.
"Instead of using SMSs and short codes like ringtone merchants and existing bill-to-carrier payment providers, Payfone operates within the carrier signaling network, a global network that allows carriers to communicate and exchange information between each other." Read the full article here.
In her latest post titled "Countdown to IAT: Are You Ready?" on our sister site PaymentsViews.com, Glenbrook's Erin McCune examines the new International ACH format – IAT – and accompanying NACHA rule changes that take effect next month on September 18th. If you are not sure how IAT affects you and your company, read on.
In a new PaymentsViews.com post, Glenbrook's Jacqueline Chilton updates her earlier post that described her personal experience trying to use her US-issued mag stripe (non-chip) credit card during a recent visit to the UK.
Registration is now open for Glenbrook's fall 2009 Payments Boot Camps being held in New York City (Sept. 23rd-24th) and in the San Francisco Bay Area (Oct. 7-8 and Dec. 8-9).
These popular, two day sessions provide a comprehensive, unbiased exploration of U.S. payments systems - covering both the basics of how the core payments systems work (from a technical, operational and economic perspective) and emerging payments systems, products, and players.
For this fall's Boot Camp series, we've developed a revised and enhanced focus on mobile payments - including the introduction of Glenbrook's new Mobile Payments Market Map.
Over 3,000 payments professionals have attended one of our Payments Boot Camps or another of our payments education workshops. See some of the comments from earlier attendees.
Our public Payments Boot Camps are also an excellent professional networking opportunity - allowing you to meet a cross-section of payments professionals from across the industry. If you've got a larger group of folks who should attend, we can bring a customized version of the Boot Camp to your location at a group rate price. Details on our private workshop program are available here along with a brochure describing all of our payments education offerings.
It's been a busy day today on Glenbrook's PaymentsViews.com where the following new articles have just been posted:
Today over on our sister site PaymentsViews.com, our Glenbrook colleagues Carol Coye Benson and Erin McCune have each published articles about ACH. Carol recently interviewed NACHA CEO Jan Estep - see her article ACH: Big Questions for the Biggest Network. Erin's article discusses her thoughts on the future of ACH.
Over on PaymentsViews.com, Glenbrook's Carol Coye Benson takes a look at the UK's Faster Payments Service. Carol spoke with David McFarlane, Company Manager, CHAPS Clearing Company about FP - and said she was surprised by much of what he said: FP is not what you thought!
Glenbrook Partners, a leading financial services consulting and research firm, has named Jacqueline Chilton as a partner in the firm. As a respected consultant in the payments industry, Jacqueline offers clients expertise in opportunity assessment, strategy development, and business case justification across multiple disciplines including payment cards, risk and compliance, and processor platforms.
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Newly available over on our PaymentsViews.com sister site is a new Glenbrook research brief titled "Credit Card Acceptance for B2B Payments" by Glenbrook's Erin McCune and Carol Coye Benson.
This new research brief is based findings from a series of interviews conducted with business-to-business suppliers about credit card acceptance conducted earlier this year. There's a form in the article for you to request a download of the report.
On PaymentsViews.com, Glenbrook's Carol Coye Benson takes a look at CashEdge's new POPmoney person-to-person money transfer service. Carol interviewed CashEdge's Neil Platt, SVP & General Manager - US Banking, about the new service.
In yesterday's edition, we announced we were making available a copy of Glenbrook’s Payments Systems and Domains Analysis for 2008 to those who request it.
Unfortunately, in our email newsletter, the form didn't work correctly for some recipients - so you may have not be able to successfully request a copy.
If you'd like to receive a copy, please go directly to this page on PaymentsViews.com and request your copy by filling out the form on that page. We appreciate your interest in our work at Glenbrook and welcome your comments on our analysis!
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 sale, bill payment, person-to-person payments, etc. are domains.
To read more about our analysis for 2008 - and to request a copy - see this post on PaymentsViews.com by Glenbrook's Carol Coye Benson.
In a post titled "Beaucoup Bucks" over on our sister PaymentsViews.com website, Glenbrook's Carol Coye Benson takes a look at Boku, the new online payments service that was announced yesterday. Carol begins: "Boku is drop-dead easy for the consumer. The online demo is stunning in its simplicity. Never, ever, underestimate the importance of ease of use for a consumer. Especially for spontaneous purchases. In my opinion, this is right up there with 1-Click."
Let's have some fun! A friend of mine, Dave McClure, is currently touring China as part of his Geeks on a Plane tour - a visit Dave and some friends organized to take "10 day orientation tour of Tokyo, Beijing and Shanghai's Internet, Mobile & Gaming sector." Among many other roles along the way, Dave led PayPal's initial efforts to build a developer community.
Let's say that we put together a tour for payments geeks on a plane. Where in the world would you want to go? - to see who and what specifically? Or, if you'd want to host a visit to your company - tell us what you'd show us and why it's important!
Let's have some fun - you can either comment here (below) or over on this thread on Friendfeed where I've started with a quick SF Bay Area tour kickoff beginning at PayPal.
Last week in New York City, Glenbrook's Erin McCune and Carol Coye Benson hosted an "Opportunities in B2B Payments" workshop - attended by product strategists from card networks, NACHA, The Clearing House, major banks, processors, software and service providers and payments start-up companies. In a post over on PaymentsViews.com, Carol takes a look at the key takeaways from last week's workshop.
If you're interested in learning more about Glenbrook’s Payments Education program, visit here. In addition to our popular public Payments Boot Camps, we offer private workshops on site at your location based on special topics (such as last week's “Opportunties in B2B Payments”) or drawn from our core Payments Bootcamp curriculum, or customized in a combination you can tailor to meet your needs.
With all of the news recently about the just passed credit card legislation in the US Congress, we were reminded that there were some pretty obvious signals flashing a few years ago that things might just be headed off the cliff. Just for fun, read (or re-read) our colleague Bryan Derman's article from January 2005 - over 4 years ago - titled "Wither the Empire?" Bryan's article concludes: "...it may indeed be growing late in the days of the great credit card empire." Indeed.
At Glenbrook, we're spending a lot of time looking at the move towards electronics for B2B payments. Join us at our New York City workshop NEXT WEEK, "New Opportunities in B2B Payments", on May 27th & 28th. If you have any questions about this workshop, please contact Glenbrook's Carol Coye Benson."
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Looking for new areas for product development or investment in business to business payments? At Glenbrook, we're spending a lot of time looking at the move towards electronics for B2B payments. Join us at our upcoming New York City workshop, "New Opportunities in B2B Payments", on May 27th & 28th. If you have any questions about this workshop, please contact Glenbrook's Carol Coye Benson."
If you're a Facebook user, you can now follow Payments News on our new Facebook page. If you're using Friendfeed, we've also just setup a Payments News group on Friendfeed. As a reminder, we've also been tweeting away for months on Twitter as @paymentsnews (and on our sister blog @paymentsviews)! Enjoy!
Got a project, questions or just need help with any of this social media stuff? Drop us a note! We've developed quite a bit of expertise in this area - based on our own experiences!
Next week's Glenbrook Payments Boot Camp is just about full. This session is being held in Santa Clara, CA - just down the road from Glenbrook World HQ in Menlo Park!
Over 2,500 payments professionals have already attended this unique session. If you're interested in attending Glenbrook's premier US payments education session next week before our summer break, please enroll right away.
After next week's session, we'll be bringing the Boot Camp to New York on Sep 23-24.
If Twitter isn't your thing, over on PaymentsViews.com, Glenbrook's Allen Weinberg is live blogging from FinovateStartup today.
FinovateStartup 2009 is being held today in San Francisco. As befits a financial technology-oriented conference - especially in San Francisco, there are a number of attendees who are tweeting away about what they're seeing - to follow along, view #finovate on Twitter. Glenbrook's Erin McCune (tweeting as @erinmccune) and Allen Weinberg are both attending today's conference - if you're there, be sure to look them up and say hi!
Glenbrook's Erin McCune spent Saturday at the BarCampBankSF2 participant-organized "unconference" held on Treasure Island in San Francisco. Over on PaymentsViews.com, she shares her notes and observations, plus links to pictures and more coverage.
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