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.   » Continue Reading

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.   » Continue Reading

Here's a brief update on Glenbrook's Payments Boot Camp education program. This week's session in New York City has been completely sold out. The next Payments Boot Camp session is scheduled for Santa Clara, California on June 11-12. Registration for the June session is now open. If you can't make the June session, the next Payments Boot Camp will be held October 15-16, 2008 in Santa Clara.

The New York City session of the Glenbrook Payments Boot Camp is a week away. Glenbrook's Payments Boot Camps provide a 'deep dive' on all aspects of the US payments systems - covering cash, checking, cards, ACH, and emerging payments including alternative online payments and mobile payments. If you'd like to attend next week's session in New York City, please register without delay! After New York, our next Payments Boot Camp will be in the San Francisco Bay Area on June 11-12.

The second session of Glenbrook's new Roundtable on Emerging Payments is now open for registration! This roundtable, being held May 7th in Mountain View, CA, is titled "Cross-Border eCommerce: Pot of Gold and Rainbow of Fraud" and will be taught by Glenbrook Partners Allen Weinberg and Russ Jones. It will be a half day session (morning through lunch). Online registration for this roundtable is now open. For more information, see the Glenbrook Payments Education website, or send an email to bootcamp@glenbrook.com.

The time has come for a last call for registrations for Glenbrook's Payments Boot Camp next week (Tuesday-Wednesday, March 18-19) in Atlanta, Georgia. If you're interested in attending, please register right away!

Glenbrook's Payments Boot Camps provide a "deep dive" on U.S. payments systems - covering soup-to-nuts, basics through emerging payments. After the Atlanta Payments Boot Camp next week, our next Payments Book Camp will be held in New York City on April 16-17.

Glenbrook, in cooperation with Forte Financial just finished our first Payments Workshop on B2B payments, called "eB2B Payments at the Tipping Point".   » Continue Reading

Glenbrook's Payments Boot Camp next week (Tuesday-Wednesday) in Santa Clara, California is almost sold out. If you're interested in attending, please register right away! Our Payments Boot Camps provide a "deep dive" on U.S. payments systems - covering soup-to-nuts, basics through emerging payments. After Santa Clara next week, our next Payments Book Camp will be held in Atlanta, Georgia, on March 18th and 19th.

Glenbrook has a number of Payments Boot Camps, special focus workshops and roundtables currently open for registration. They include:

• Our two-day Payments Boot Camp "Spring Tour" begins with classes being held starting next month in the San Francisco Bay Area (February 19-20), followed by Atlanta (March 18-19) and New York (April 16-17).
• A new, first-time special focus one-day workshop on Card Payment Processing - The Value Chain being held in the San Francisco Bay Area on February 21.
• A new, first-time special focus two-day workshop on eB2B Payments at the Tipping Point being held in the San Francisco Bay Area on March 4-5. This workshop is being taught in partnership with Eric McCune of Forte Financial and is approved for up to 17 CTP/CCM recertification credit(s) by the Association for Financial Professionals.
• A new half-day Roundtable on Emerging Payments where for the initial session we'll be focusing on mobile payments and Amazon's Flexible Payment Service. This roundtable is being held in the San Francisco Bay Area on February 22 (morning).

There is much more information about all of these courses available on the Glenbrook website - including who the instructors are for each course, course fees, agendas, online registration, etc. Questions or need more information? Contact Glenbrook's Carol Coye Benson.

Glenbrook's 2008 Payments Education Series begins in February - and registration is now open for the following sessions (all to be held in the San Francisco Bay Area):

• Glenbrook Payments Boot Camp - Feb. 18-19
• Special Focus Workshop on the Card Payment Processing Value Chain - Feb. 21
• Glenbrook Roundtable on Emerging Payments - Feb. 22

These events have been selling out early - so if you're thinking you want to attend, make sure you register as early as possible. For 2008, we're providing an early registration discount for registrations completed two months in advance.

For more information on Glenbrook's 2008 payments-focused courses, visit the Glenbrook Payments Education Program page or this detailed schedule.

Today is the last call for Glenbrook's Merchant Payments Boot Camp being held next Tuesday and Wednesday, September 18-19, in Santa Clara, California. There are only a few seats remaining available for this one and a half day session specifically tailored for merchants. For registration details, click here.

The next session of Glenbrook's full two day Payments Boot Camp will be held in Denver, Colorado on November 14-15. The October 10-11 Payments Boot Camp in Santa Clara, California is already sold out.

Glenbrook's Carol Coye Benson provides the following update on our Payments Boot Camp program: "Glenbrook just wrapped up our Payments Boot Camps for the 2006-2007 "school year". We had lively sessions in New York City last week and in the California this week." Click here to continue reading.   » Continue Reading

Here's an update on Glenbrook's upcoming Payments Boot Camps from partner Carol Coye Benson:

"Our phone is ringing off the hook with people trying to figure out what the payments system impact of FDC's going private might be - just when we're starting to get our head around the role of the card associations as public (or almost public!) institutions. These are the kinds of questions that always get fascinating interactions going at our Payments Boot Camps. We have a few seats left for our New York City payments boot camp on April 24th and 25th and recently opened for registration our next San Francisco Bay Area payments boot camp on May 2nd and 3rd."

Questions? Email Carol directly.

Glenbrook's Carol Coye Benson provides this update on two recent Glenbrook Payments Boot Camps.

Glenbrook just wrapped up two challenging and lively Payments Boot Camps. Last week we held our core session in Atlanta for the first time, and this week we had the first of our new Merchant Payments Boot Camps. Both events were sold out and had great and diverse groups attending.   » Continue Reading

Glenbrook's Allen Weinberg will be holding an afternoon workshop titled "Point Of Sale Impact: Preparing for the Merchant and Online Payments Revolution" at the upcoming CardTech/SecureTech conference in San Francisco.   » Continue Reading

Glenbrook's next Payments Boot Camp, scheduled for Atlanta, Georgia on March 13 and 14, has only a few open seats remaining. Carol Coye Benson and Scott Loftesness will be teaching this session. If you're interested in attending this boot camp in Atlanta, please be sure to register now as we're just about sold out.

Glenbrook's Merchants Payments Boot Camp, specifically tailored for retailers, ecommerce merchants, etc. is being held March 21 and 22 in the San Francisco Bay Area. Allen Weinberg, Russ Jones and Jay DeWitt will be teaching this session. Registration is available online.

For answers to any questions about Glenbrook's Payments Boot Camps, you can contact us at bootcamp@glenbrook.com.

Glenbrook's first Payments Boot Camp of 2007 scheduled for next week in Santa Clara, California is sold out. The next Payments Boot Camp is scheduled for Atlanta, Georgia on March 13 and 14. Carol Coye Benson and Scott Loftesness will be teaching that session. Registration for the Atlanta session is available online.

A new Merchants Payments Boot Camp, specifically tailored for retailers, ecommerce merchants, etc. is being held March 21 and 22 in the San Francisco Bay Area. Allen Weinberg, Russ Jones and Jay DeWitt will be teaching the Merchants Payments Boot Camp - see the complete agenda here (PDF). Registration is available online.

For questions about Glenbrook's Boot Camps, please contact us at bootcamp@glenbrook.com.

Glenbrook will be offering an expanded series of Payments Boot Camps for 2007 - beginning in February in the San Francisco Bay Area and in Atlanta in March. For 2007, we're also introducing a new merchant-focused Merchant Payments Boot Camp with the first session scheduled March 21-22 in the San Francisco Bay Area. Nearly a thousand payments professionals have attended a Glenbrook Payments Boot Camp since they were introduced two years ago.   » Continue Reading

Glenbrook's Payments Boot Camp in Denver next week is completely sold out. If you're interested in learning more about the "soups to nuts" of electronic payments at one of our Boot Camps, the next one will be held on Feb. 7-8, 2007 in Santa Clara, California. Registration is now open. If you've got a more urgent or customized requirement, contact Glenbrook's Carol Coye Benson about our Private Payments Boot Camps that allow you and your team to share a "deep dive" into the world of electronic payments in a private setting.

Glenbrook's Carol Coye Benson writes: "We just finished holding our 7th public "Payments Boot Camp". At this week's session we had a great and diverse group of payments professionals - including people from banks, payments providers, technology companies, eCommerce merchants, investment firms and law firms. We're always fascinated to watch the shifting topics which absorb the interest of the audience. This session the emerging infrastructure of the prepaid card industry was particularly a hot topic - who the big players are and how they fit into the value chain. Check to ACH conversion, check imaging, and "Check/ACH Convergence" made for a lively discussion (and lots of boxes and arrows!). More than in our earlier sessions, we had a group that already had a good understanding of PayPal and its business model - maybe it's time we move PayPal from our "Emerging Payments Systems" section into our discussion of "Core Payment Systems"! Our next Payments Boot Camp session is being held next month - November 7th and 8th - in Denver. Please think about joining us."

Glenbrook has announced the addition of a new session of our popular two-day intensive Payments Boot Camp program to be held in Denver on November 7th and 8th. Each of the Glenbrook Payments Boot Camps is taught by full partners at Glenbrook with many years' experience in the business, operations, technology, marketing and risk management of payments. Glenbrook Payments Boot Camps are a great professional networking venue as well - with many opportunities to talk with other attendees both during the workshop and at a reception on the first night. Learn more about the Denver Payments Boot Camp and registration details at the Glenbrook web site.