It’s Complicated: What we can learn from the developing world about payments
I was fortunate enough to spend a day yesterday at Bill Maurer’s IMTFI (Institute for Money, Technology and Financial Inclusion) conference at UC Irvine. Bill is an anthropologist, and his institute...
View ArticleWalmart, ACH and the Elusive P2P Solution
Walmart’s announcement that it would offer store-to-store money transfers has a number of interesting aspects worth pondering. At a high level, this seems like a no brainer. People need to send money...
View ArticleNothing More Social
I read the Facebook announcement of payments through Messenger with interest, and just a touch of “about time”! After all, there is nothing more social than sending money to family and friends. And...
View ArticlePoF 17 – Aligning Bitcoin with B2B Remittances
Paying invoices and moving funds aross borders for small and medium business (SMB) is expensive and full of uncertainties. How much does the recipient actually get once the transaction is finished?...
View ArticleInside the Payments Boot Camp – Global Payments
Last year we expanded our Payments Boot Camp program to include a series of one-day workshops that give us an opportunity to dive a little deeper into a topic to share our experience and insights in a...
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Enough with the 2016 Predictions – Let’s Think Bigger!
As I was slogging through the many payments-related articles and blog posts reminiscing about 2015 events and making predictions for what may or may not be ahead in 2016, I thought of a conversation I...
View ArticleOn Internet Money – Talking Circle.com with Jeremy Allaire
The world of moving money is changing. And faster is the theme. Domestic real time payment systems are showing up across the planet. Today’s discussion is full of bitcoin, open and permissioned...
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Merchant Acceptance in the Developing World – Mobile Payments’ Essential...
Over the past several years, my colleagues and I at Glenbrook have been working on a variety of projects focused on bringing low-cost financial services to the poor in developing countries. While...
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Expanded Frontiers in Mobile Payment
One of the payments obsessions here at Glenbrook is understanding the ways in which mobile payment and digital financial services are taking hold around the world. Once effectively limited to the...
View ArticleEP43: Making Money Fly over Borders – ISO 20022, the IPFA, and Faster...
Faster payments, B2B payments, international remittances, cross-currency, and cross-border payments. These are hot topics and major challenges the payments industry must address. Central to all is the...
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