Registration is open for Glenbrook's Payments Boot Camp February 15th and 16th in Santa Clara, CA and April 10th and 11th in New York. Our constantly-updated material includes a substantial section on all things wallet - NFC, cloud, P2P and more. Come hear Glenbrook explain what's happening, why, and what the future may look like. More dates, agendas, testimonials and information at www.glenbrook.com or contact Glenbrook partner Carol Coye Benson.

Glenbrook’s 2012 Winter and Spring Payments Boot Camps in New York and the San Francisco Bay Area are open for registration. Payments Boot Camps are being offered February 15-16 in Santa Clara, CA, April 10-11 in New York City, and May 16-17 in Palo Alto, CA.

Our popular Payments Boot Camp is a two day “deep dive” into the world of payments. Day One covers the basics: how payments systems work; the core systems (value chains, providers, and economic models); perspectives of key users and providers in the systems; and “What We’re Watching” – key trends and drivers of change. Day Two covers Emerging Payments, with new and updated content on Mobile Wallets (POS, cloud, P2P, NFC and more!) and Global Payments.

Agendas, testimonials, and logistics information is available on the Glenbrook Payments Essentials website.

Register now for Glenbrook's Take - Final Durbin Rules, a special 90 minute webinar where Glenbrook explores the impact of the Federal Reserve Durbin rules. With the final rules being released June 29th, we're bringing together a number of Glenbrook subject matter experts to provide a full 360 degree view of the new 'post-Durbin' landscape:

• Bank Perspective (issuers and acquirers) - Bryan Derman
• Customer Perspective (consumers and merchants) - Scott Loftesness
• Emerging Payments Perspective - Russ Jones

Wednesday, July 6th, 10:30AM - 12:00 PST, $149. Register Now.

New webinars, upcoming payment boot camps, a new series of market reports, and our book...

Payments Essentials Webinars – Tuesdays from 10:30AM -11:30AM PST, $149

Feb 15, 2011: eInvoicing - with Erin McCune

Feb 22, 2011: Bill Payment - with Jacqueline Chilton

Payments Boot Camps – Two day “deep dive” into the industry, $1995

Feb 16-17, 2011: Santa Clara, CA - there are only 4 seats avaialble!

Apr 13-14, 2011: New York City - with Bryan Derman and Carol Coye Benson

May 18-19, 2011: Santa Clara, CA - with Scott Loftesness and Carol Coye Benson

eCommerce Market Analysis Reports

A new series of reports designed to help U.S. companies better understand eCommerce markets around the world; six countries are available now, with more to come.

Payments Systems in the U.S.

Glenbrook's book is available for bulk purchase for payments executives who want to ensure that their teams have a thorough grounding in the multiple dimensions of our industry.

Glenbrook has two webinars coming up - one for industry newcomers ("Cards Essentials") and one for veterans ("Beyond PCI").

Payments Essentials Webinars – Tuesdays from 10:30AM -11:30AM PST, $149

February 1, 2011: Cards Essentials with Carol Coye Benson (Basics Level)

February 8, 2011: Beyond PCI with Bryan Derman and Carol Coye Benson (Insight Level)

Payments Boot Camps – Two day “deep dive” into the industry, $1995

February 16-17, 2011: Santa Clara, CA. - with Scott Loftesness and Carol Coye Benson

April 13-14, 2011: New York City - with Bryan Derman and Carol Coye Benson

Stay on top of the payments industry! Glenbrook’s payments education programs offer comprehensive, unbiased, and time-efficient ways to keep current.

Payments Essentials Webinars – Tuesdays from 10:30AM -11:30AM PST, $149

February 1, 2011: Cards Essentials with Carol Coye Benson (Basics Level)

February 8, 2011: Beyond PCI with Bryan Derman and Carol Coye Benson (Insight Level)

Payments Boot Camps – Two day “deep dive” into the industry, $1995

February 16-17, 2011: Santa Clara, CA. - with Scott Loftesness and Carol Coye Benson

April 13-14, 2011: New York City - with Bryan Derman and Carol Coye Benson

Glenbrook's February and March webinars are now available for registration. Glenbrook webinars are categorized by type - this winter's offerings include:

• "Basics" Webinars: Cards Essentials (Feb 1); The Bill Payment Domain (Feb 22)
• "Landscape" Webinars: Local Country Payments (March 1); Bill to Mobile Payments (March 8)
• "Insight" Webinars: Beyond PCI (Feb 8); eInvoicing and Small Business (Feb 15); Durbin: Second Order Impacts (March 15); Payments Platforms (March 22); Mobile POS Payments – U.S. Market (March 29)

Join Glenbrook's Payments Essentials Webinar on Local Country Payments for the eCommerce Payments Manager. Erin McCune talks through some of the complexities in understanding payments options in other countries - and provides an illustration of Glenbrooks' Framework for Understanding Local Country Payments. Tuesday, November 30th, 10:30AM PST - 11:30AM, $149. Register Now.

There are a few seats left for Glenbrook's December 8th and 9th Payments Boot Camp in Santa Clara, California. Register Now.

Glenbrook's next Payments Essentials webinar is next Tuesday from 10:30 to 11:45 AM PST. The topic for this session is the PayPal X Platform - what it is and where it fits in PayPal's strategy. Glenbrook’s Russ Jones participated in PayPal X Innovate 2010 and will be discussing PayPal's progress with its developers platform since it was launched in 2009. Registration ($149) details are here.

Glenbrook's first public European payments workshop, Payments in a Mobile World, is close to sold out for next week. A few tickets remain - let us know if you are interested in joining what promises to be a lively group payments professionals. Glenbrook partners Carol Coye Benson and Scott Loftesness will explain what has happened - and what might happen - with mobile payments in the context of the economic structure of the core payments industry. Tickets are Euro 1195; multiple seat discounts are available.

Glenbrook is pleased to announce the publication of its first book, “Payments Systems in the U.S.” The book is now available for order on Glenbrook’s Payments Education site (www.paymentsessentials.com) and is also available through Amazon.com.

Written by Glenbrook’s Carol Coye Benson and Scott Loftesness, the book provides a thorough grounding in U.S. payments systems—what they are, how they work, and how they are changing. In an informal, easy-to-read style, the book provides essential reading for any payments professional—new to the industry or experienced—who wants a comprehensive, unbiased view of the US payments industry.

The book is part of Glenbrook’s Payments Essentials program of Payments Boot Camps, workshops, and webinars providing industry education for payments professionals.

Glenbrook is pleased to announce that a version of our popular two-day Payments Boot Camp will be offered in Dublin, Ireland on November 17th & 18th, 2010. The workshop will have a particular focus on mobile payments. “Payments in a Mobile World” will cover both the basics of the payments industry (value chains, economics, regulations, etc.) and explore how payments – in Europe and the United States – are being profoundly changed by mobile technology.

The workshop is being held in collaboration with the Financial Services Innovation Centre of University College Cork. Tickets are €1195 per seat. Register now!

The next Glenbrook Payments Boot Camp is being held this week in Santa Clara, CA. After this session, we take a break for the summer months and begin again with our next Santa Clara session on October 6-7 followed by New York City on October 27-28. If you're looking for insights into how the US payments systems are evolving, be sure to enroll in one of these sessions!

Glenbrook has opened registration for the fall sessions of its popular Glenbrook Payments Boot Camp - with sessions scheduled in the San Francisco Bay Area and New York City.

As the pace of innovation in the payments industry continues to astound us, we've revamped the agenda - and updated our material - to highlight the impact of these changes - from mobile payment at the point of sale, to "micro merchant" products, and an array of new ideas, players, and trends in eCommerce, P2P, Bill Payment, and B2B. The new agenda also includes a new section addressing cross-border payments.

Register now for one of the following sessions:

• October 6th & 7th in Santa Clara, CA
• October 27 & 28 in New York City
• December 8th & 9th in Santa Clara, CA

Questions? Let us know! Also, you may want to consider one of our Private Payments Workshops conducted on site at your location - with an agenda specifically customized to your needs.

Glenbrook's next Payments Essentials webinar is this Wednesday from 10:30 - 11:30 AM Pacific. The topic for this session is Social Payments - with Russ Jones and Erin McCune sharing the presentation that was such a big hit at NACHA's Payments 2010 conference last week. Scott Loftesness will be moderating this session. Registration ($149) details are here.

Here's what's coming up soon at Glenbrook:

Next Wednesday - Glenbrook Payments Essentials Webinar:
Social Payments - A Scenario Analysis - a one hour webinar next Wednesday, May 5th at 10:30 AM Pacific - fee $149.

See NetBanker Jim Bruene's praise for Glenbrook's presentation on Social Payments by Russ Jones and Erin McCune earlier this week at NACHA's Payments 2010 conference in Seattle. We'll be reprising this presentation on next Wednesday's webinar. (Big thanks to Jim!)

Our next Payments Boot Camp is on May 19th and 20th in Santa Clara, CA - taught by Scott Loftesness and Carol Coye Benson. Enroll now for this public session - or contact us to discuss an on-site private Glenbrook payments workshop for your company. READ MORE »

Earlier today, two Glenbrook partners, Allen Weinberg and Bryan Derman, arrived in Haiti to present a specialized Glenbrook Payments Boot Camp on Saturday for 50+ representatives of the Haitian banking sector, led by the Reserve Bank of Haiti.

Read more about Glenbrook's involvement in Haiti - see Allen Weinberg's post on PaymentsViews.com.

Upcoming Glenbrook Payments Essentials Webinar: Social Payments - A Scenario Analysis - a one hour webinar on May 5th at 10:30 AM Pacific - fee $149.

Our next Payments Boot Camp is on May 19th and 20th in Santa Clara, CA - taught by Scott Loftesness and Carol Coye Benson. Enroll now for this public session - or contact us to discuss an on-site private Glenbrook payments workshop for your company.

Payments Boot Camps are also scheduled for October 6th and 7th in New York City, and October 20th and 21st in Santa Clara, CA.

Mobile Payments - Carol Coye Benson's Musings on Mobile Payments is available as an immediate eBook download for $19.95.

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Upcoming Glenbrook Payments Essentials Webinars:

• Mobile at the POS - A Scenario Analysis - a one hour webinar conducted by Scott Loftesness and Carol Coye Benson on Wednesday April 7th at 10:30 AM Pacific - fee $249.
• Best Practices Enterprise Payments Organization Management - a one hour webinar conducted by Erin McCune and Jacqueline Chilton on Wednesday April 21st at 10:30 AM Pacific - fee $249.
• Social Payments - A Scenario Analysis - a one hour webinar conducted by Scott Loftesness and Erin McCune on May 5th at 10:30 AM Pacific - fee $149.

Our next Payments Boot Camp is on May 19th and 20th in Santa Clara, CA - taught by Scott Loftesness and Carol Coye Benson. Enroll now for this public session - or contact us to discuss an on-site private Glenbrook payments workshop for your company.

Mobile Payments - Carol Coye Benson's Musings on Mobile Payments is available as an immediate eBook download for $19.95.

Are you a fan of Payments News? Join us on Facebook! Or, Subscribe to the Payments News daily email edition!

Need help with a payments-related project? Glenbrook can help - tell us what you need!

Glenbrook's Russ Jones and Erin McCune are presenting a webinar titled "PayPal and B2B" on Thursday, March 18, beginning at 10:30 AM Pacific. "PayPal recently introduced impressive new product capabilities, with its “PayPal X Platform”, including Adaptive Payments and Adaptive Accounts. These capabilities, along with new pricing which is expected to be announced this spring, give PayPal a base to expand into business-to-business (B2B) payments. Glenbrook partners Russ Jones and Erin McCune discuss the nature of the opportunities that PayPal appears to be exploring now – and what the future might hold." REGISTER NOW ($249)

Glenbrook's Allen Weinberg and Carol Coye Benson will be attending next week's annual conference of the Merchant Risk Council. Together, they'll be teaching the MRC Payments Workshop on the afternoon of Tuesday, March 18th. On Tuesday mornng, Allen will be joining a panel discussion about Universal Identity - Trust in e-Commerce Transactions as part of the MRC Platinum Meeting. If you're going to this year's MRC annual conference, be sure to say hello to Allen and Carol!

Next week, on Wednesday and Thursday, March 10-11, we're holding the next Glenbrook Payments Boot Camp in Santa Clara, CA. If you want to join us, please register right away. The 2010 editions of our Boot Camps include a special focus on mobile payments.

Speaking of mobile payments, Glenbrook's Carol Coye Benson has recently published a Glenbrook research report titled "Musings about Mobile Payments" based upon a series of interviews she conducted late last year with the major players in mobile payments.

Watch a video by Carol Coye Benson about Glenbrook's Payments Education offerings.

Russ Jones will be conducting a Glenbrook Payments Essentials webinar on eCommerce Segmentation and Sizing for the U.S. Market this coming Thursday, March 4th, 10:30 - 11:30 PST. Russ will define the four key subsegments of the eCommerce market, describe their size and growth characteristics, and discuss how each segment's payments requirements and decisions differ. Register Now - Fee $249."

For eCommerce merchants and payments professionals that provide solutions for eCommerce merchants - register now to hear Glenbrook's Allen Weinberg and Jay DeWitt talk about New Approaches to Chargeback Management. The Glenbrook Payments Essentials Webinar is on Wednesday February 24th at 10:30-11:30PST. Fee $149.

Glenbrook Payments Education

• February 24th - 10:30 to 11:30 PST - Payments Essentials Webinar: New Approaches to Chargeback Management - Glenbrook's Allen Weinberg and Jay DeWitt dive into the details on best practices in chargeback management for eCommerce merchants, including reviewing solutions providers including Vindicia, and Verifi. Fee: $149. Merchant members of MRC can register at no charge, using discount code GBCMRC.
  
• March 4th - 10:30 to 11:30 PST - Payments Essentials Webinar: eCommerce Market Segmentation - Glenbrook partner Russ Jones provides a comprehensive framework for the eCommerce market. Join him to understand how eRetailing, travel and entertainment, online services and digital content segments differ - particularly in their payments requirements. Fee: $249.
  
  
• March 10th & 11th - Glenbrook Payments Boot Camp - Santa Clara, California - ALMOST SOLD OUT! - Carol Coye Benson and Scott Loftesness teach our popular two day "deep dive" into payments systems - with complete coverage of emerging mobile products and trends. Fee: $1995. Multiple attendee discounts available.

• February 22-24 - Glenbrook's Bryan Derman will be attending the 2010 Prepaid Expo USA in Las Vegas. If you're going, be sure to meet Bryan there!
  
  
• February 23-25 - Glenbrook's Jacqueline Chilton will be attending the 3rd Annual Smart Card Alliance Payments Summit in Salt Lake City. Meet up with Jacqueline if you're going to be there!
  
  
• March 1-3 - Glenbrook's Erin McCune will be attending BAI Payments Connect in Orlando. Meet up with Erin if you're going to be there!

Here's a news report from the Big Apple: "Glenbrook's latest Payments Boot Camp is kicking off in New York City this morning, in the midst of a "monster snowstorm" predicted to be "a 9 on a scale of 1-to-10". Glenbrook's Carol Coye Benson and Bryan Derman have already battled their way into the classroom - and determined boot campers are beginning to trickle in. Sadly, several out-of-towners have had to cancel because of flight cancellations - we'll welcome them to one of the next boot camps - maybe in sunny California!"

Glenbrook's next webinar, B2B Supplier Directories - "Where's the Phone Book?", is being held tomorrow, Feb. 9 at 10:30 AM Pacific. In this session, Glenbrook's Carol Coye Benson and Erin McCune discuss business-to-business payments in the US and the absence of broadly available directories that would enable a willing payer to pay a willing payee electronically – without requiring bilateral discussions and negotiations. They will discuss the various solutions and ideas that are either in the market or currently under discussion to address this issue. You can register here (fee US$149).

Here's what's coming up this month at Glenbrook:

View a video Introduction to Glenbrook's Payments Education Program (5 min) by Carol Coye Benson on the new GlenbrookPartners YouTube channel.

Webinar on B2B Supplier Directories - February 9th, 10:30AM - 11:30AM PST. Carol Coye Benson and Erin McCune talk about the biggest gating factor in the conversion of B2B payments from checks to electronics - and evaluate the current market solutions. Register online - $149.

Payments Boot Camp - New York City - February 10th & 11th. Bryan Derman and Carol Coye Benson focus on the economic models of incumbents and challengers as they cover the entire U.S. payments industry - in two information-packed days! Register online - $1995.

Webinar on New Approaches to Chargeback Management - February 24th. Allen Weinberg and Jay DeWitt look at the problem, and market solutions, from the perspective of the eCommerce payments manager. Register online - $149. No charge for MRC merchant members.

The Merchant Risk Council's annual e-Commerce Payments and Risk Conference is being held this year on March 16th-18th in Las Vegas. Glenbrook's Allen Weinberg and Carol Coye Benson are teaching a special workshop on eCommerce Payments Management on the afternoon of March 16th. The workshop fee is $189 for MRC Members and $400 for non-members . Registration and other information is available at the conference website.

Glenbrook is announcing the next seven sessions of our Payments Essentials webinar series:

• B2B Supplier Directories - 'Where's the Phone Book?" - Feb 9th - Carol Coye Benson and Erin McCune
• New Approaches to Chargeback Management - Feb 24th - Allen Weinberg
• eCommerce Market Segmentation - Mar 4th - Russ Jones
• PayPal and B2B - Mar 18th: Erin McCune and Russ Jones
• Mobile at the POS in the US - Scenario Analysis - Apr 7th: Scott Loftesness and Carol Coye Benson
• Best Practices Enterprise Payments Organization Management - Apr 21st - Erin McCune and Jacqueline Chilton
• Social Payments - Scenario Analysis - May 5th - Scott Loftesness

All webinars are scheduled at 10:30 Pacific and run for one hour. More detail on the topic of each session - as well as information on fees and links to online registration - are on the Glenbrook website.