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.

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:

• December 8-9, 2009 - San Francisco Bay Area
• January 20-21, 2010 - San Francisco Bay Area
• February 10-11, 2010 - New York City
• March 10-11, 2010 - San Francisco Bay Area
• May 19-20, 2010 - San Francisco Bay Area

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.

Next week, Glenbrook's Carol Coye Benson and Bryan Derman will be teaching our Payments Boot Camp in New York City on Wednesday and Thursday, September 23-24. Registration will be closing shortly!

Glenbrook's Payments Boot Camp is a two-day "deep dive" into all aspects of the US payment system. Our fall series features an expanded focus on Mobile Payments – and introduces Glenbrook’s Mobile Payments Market Map.

Here's a quick reminder that Glenbrook's Fall 2009 Payments Boot Camp series is about to begin with the first session being held in New York City on September 23-24.

This fall's series will have an expanded focus on Mobile Payments - and will introduce Glenbrook's Mobile Payments Market Map. Click here for more information about this popular series.

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.

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.

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."

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."

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.

Glenbrook's workshop on New Opportunities in B2B Payments will be held in New York City on May 27th and 28th. This two-day session explores a market that is now breaking wide open: the traditionally paper-based world of business-to-business (B2B) payments. READ MORE

If you're planning ahead and want to join us in the fall for one of our Payments Boot Camps, we've just posted the full calendar. We'll be teaching both in New York and in the San Francisco Bay Area. Our last spring Payments Boot Camp session will be held May 12-13 in the San Francisco Bay Area. Check out the full schedule!

Join us for the Web 2.0 & Financial Services Workshop we're holding on March 19th in Santa Clara, California.

The demographic reach of Web 2.0 may surprise you – it's not just kids! Consumer buying decisions and the perception of major brands are being driven by social media's influence.

After a number of tentative forays, financial institutions are starting to use the tools and techniques of Web 2.0 more confidently. But is it too late? A number of personal finance management success stories (Mint, Wesabe, Quicken Online and a host of popular bloggers) have already gained traction - has their early success been at the expense of financial institutions?

You've got questions and in this workshop we'll provide some answers. Join us as we explore the world of Web 2.0 technologies and their impact on financial services in this one day workshop (morning plus optional afternoon sessions) on March 19th in Santa Clara. Registration is now open.

The next Glenbrook Payments Boot Camp will be held in New York City next Tuesday and Wednesday, March 10-11. For more information on our Boot Camps, click here. To register, click here.

After next week's session in New York City, the next Glenbrook Payments Boot Camp will be held in Santa Clara, California on May 12-13, 2009.

Join us for the Web 2.0 & Financial Services Workshop we're holding on March 19th in Santa Clara, California.

The demographic reach of Web 2.0 may surprise you – it's not just kids! Consumer buying decisions and the perception of major brands are being driven by social media's influence.

After a number of tentative forays, financial institutions are starting to use the tools and techniques of Web 2.0 more confidently. But is it too late? A number of personal finance management success stories (Mint, Wesabe, Quicken Online and a host of popular bloggers) have already gained traction - has their early success been at the expense of financial institutions?

You've got questions and in this workshop we'll provide some answers. Join Scott Loftesness and Erin McCune from Glenbrook and Mitch Muroff of Curaxian as we explore the world of Web 2.0 technologies and their impact on financial services in this one day workshop (morning plus optional afternoon sessions) on March 19th in Santa Clara. Registration is now open.

We've just updated our schedule of payments education courses offered through May 2009. Included are two Glenbrook Payments Boot Camp sessions - one in New York City in March and a second in the San Francisco Bay Area in May. We'll also be holding two workshops on Emerging Payments - one in the San Francisco area and a second in New York. A new workshop on Web 2.0 in Financial Services will be held in San Francisco in March and a workshop on Business to Business Payments will be held in New York in May.

You can find the complete schedule here - registration for all of these sessions is now open. We also updated the downloadable agendas for each of these classes.

The next Glenbrook Payments Boot Camp scheduled for January 20-21 in the San Francisco Bay Area is filling quickly. The January session will be taught by Glenbrook's Carol Coye Benson and Scott Loftesness. If you're interested in attending this session, please register as soon as possible to ensure you get a seat!

Glenbrook's Denver Payments Boot Camp kicked off this morning with Carol Coye Benson and Linda Elliott teaching this session. It will wrap up tomorrow afternoon.

Our next Payments Boot Camp is scheduled for January 20-21 in Santa Clara, California. You can get more information about our Boot Camp curriculum here - or enroll here. READ MORE

Glenbrook's Payments Boot Camp in Denver on December 3-4 almost sold out. If you're interested in joining this session, please be sure to enroll right away. Carol Coye Benson and Linda Elliott will be teaching the Denver session.

Glenbrook's next Payments Boot Camp will be held in Santa Clara, California on January 20-21, 2009. Enrollment for that session is now open. Carol Coye Benson and Scott Loftesness will be teaching the Santa Clara session.

Reminder: Join us Wednesday, November 12th in Mountain View, California for a one day, Advanced Workshop on Emerging Payments taught by Jay DeWitt, Russ Jones, and Allen Weinberg from Glenbrook Partners.

At this workshop, we'll be talking about the potential impacts of the current financial market crisis on the payments industry, as well as diving deep into topics such as PayPal's acquisition of Bill Me Later, and the learnings from several recent NFC trials for mobile payments.

Registration is now available online. Questions? Contact Carol Coye Benson via email at bootcamp@glenbrook.com.

Join us this November 12th in Mountain View, California for a one day, Advanced Workshop on Emerging Payments taught by Jay DeWitt, Russ Jones, and Allen Weinberg from Glenbrook Partners.

At this workshop, we'll be talking about the potential impacts of the current financial market crisis on the payments industry, as well as diving deep into topics such as PayPal's acquisition of Bill Me Later, and the learnings from several recent NFC trials for mobile payments.

Registration is now available online. Questions? Contact Carol Coye Benson via email at bootcamp@glenbrook.com.

Payments News continues to grow in regular readership - we're delighted that so many of our friends find it to be of value. Earlier this morning, a Bank of America staffer became the 5,000th email subscriber to Payments News - a new milestone! We crossed 4,000 email subscribers in late May - so roughly 8 new Payments News email subscribers have joined every business day since then.

Thanks again for all of your comments and suggestions. If you've got more feedback for us, please send it along anytime by clicking on the Feedback link in the top menu bar - we're all ears and really do appreciate hearing from you! To send us news that you'd like to have covered on Payments News, please email it along to us: editor@paymentsnews.com.

Payments News is a "sideline" for us at Glenbrook! Our real "day job" is the strategy consulting work we do for a wide range of clients involved in electronic payments - along with our payments education program serving payments professionals. Carol Coye Benson and I just today finished a chock-full two-day Payments Boot Camp here in the San Francisco Bay Area. If you're interested in attending the next one of our Payments Boot Camps, we'll be in Denver on December 3-4, 2008.

Glenbrook's October 15-16 Payments Boot Camp is now sold out. The next Payments Boot Camp is being held in Denver, Colorado on December 3-4.

The Glenbrook Payments Boot Camp being held in the San Francisco Bay Area on October 15-16 is nearly sold out. If you're interested in attending this session, please be sure to register soon. After this October session, the next Payments Boot Camp is scheduled for December 3-4 in Denver, Colorado.

We're delighted to announce a revised and expanded schedule for our Glenbrook Payments Education events for the fall season.

• Glenbrook Workshops on Emerging Payments

  We've introduced a new, one-day Workshop on Emerging Payments. This advanced course will cover the newest developments in payments in the online, physicial point-of-sale, bill payment, and business to business arenas. The Workshop on Emerging Payments will be held twice this fall: in New York City on October 23 and in Mountain View, California on November 12. Registration for both Workshops is now open!

• Glenbrook Payments Boot Camps

  We're also presenting two sessions of our very popular Payments Boot Camp this fall - in the San Francisco Bay Area on October 15-16 and in Denver on December 3-4. Registration for both Boot Camps is now open.

• Private Payments Workshops

  In addition to these public sessions, Glenbrook also offers private payments workshops tailored and delivered at our client's locations. These workshops are individually customized to concentrate on the topics of most importance to you.

To learn more about Glenbrook's Payments Education series, contact Glenbrook's Carol Coye Benson.

We've got two sessions of Glenbrook's Payments Boot Camp coming up later this year. Registration for both sessions is now open.

Glenbrook's Payments Boot Camp is an intensive, two day "deep dive" into the US payments systems - providing a unique cross-payments system view. We focus on ensuring you come away with an up-to-date understanding of how current trends and issues in electronic payments will affect the status quo and how new and emerging players may compliment - or threaten - today's industry incumbents.

The first session , October 15-16, 2008, will be held in the San Francisco Bay Area. Carol Coye Benson and Scott Loftesness will be teaching this session. The second session, December 3-4, 2008, will be held in Denver, Colorado. Carol Coye Benson and Linda Elliott will be teaching this session.

Over 2,000 payments professionals have attended one of Glenbrook's Payments Boot Camps. Read some of the comments we've received about the Payments Boot Camp from attendees. Enroll today!

If you can't make it to next week's Glenbrook Payments Boot Camp (being held June 11-12 in Santa Clara), you may want to sign up for our next one being held October 15-16 also in Santa Clara, California. Online registration for the October session just opened.

Today's a day for celebrating! Early this morning, the number of subscribers to the daily email distribution of Payments News crossed 4,000. We're truly delighted with this milestone - and very gratified that so many of you find Payments News useful.

Payments News is a "sideline" for us at Glenbrook - but also a labor of love! Our "day job" is the strategy consulting work we do for a wide range of clients around electronic payments - and our payments education program serving payments professionals.

To keep ourselves current, years ago we started sharing among ourselves the most interesting payments-related news of the day - via an email distribution list. A few years later, it became almost as easy to post to a blog as to send an email - and Payments News was born. The earliest stories here in our archives date back over six years to April 2002.

Today, in addition to the 4,000 daily email subscribers, we serve over 8,000 unique visitors every weekday - many of them finding us (and Glenbrook) when they search for a payments-related topic and end up here. And, in our payments education program, we've now had over 2,000 payments professionals attend one of our Payments Boot Camps!

So, many thanks for being here with us! As always, if you've got comments to help us improve, please send them along anytime by clicking on the Feedback link in the top menu bar - we're all ears and really do appreciate hearing from you! To send us news that you'd like to have covered on Payments News, send it along to us: gotnews@paymentsnews.com.

Glenbrook, by the way, celebrated its seventh birthday just a couple of months ago. If you've got a project in mind where we can help as consultants, just contact any of the Glenbrook team and we'll get right back to you.

Glenbrook's next roundtable on the Structure of the Merchant Marketplace will be held June 10th in Santa Clara, California. Registration is now open. Allen Weinberg and Carol Coye Benson will be taking a special look "under the covers" – focusing on the key industry verticals within the U.S. merchant marketplace. READ MORE

The second session of Glenbrook's new 2008 Roundtable on Emerging Payments is coming up on Wednesday morning, May 7, in Mountain View, CA. This session is titled "Cross-Border eCommerce: Pot of Gold and Rainbow of Fraud." Click to read the session abstract. READ MORE