Supplier Network Interoperability is Key to B2B ePayment (Forrester)
A new report from Forrester underscores a theme that my partner Carol Coye Benson and I have been championing for months now. Widespread adoption of B2B electronic payments is dependent upon an open...
View ArticleFun Payment Facts: Currency Throughout US History
This afternoon I visited the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. I am on the board of the SF Treasury Management Association and every year we organize a tour for our members. The Fed Reserve tours...
View Article“Working the Connections” A Look at SunGard’s PayNetExchange
Glenbrook Partners Erin McCune and Carol Coye Benson are on a mission to discover if the long-awaited “tipping point” in B2B payments, signaling a world in which electronic payments are the norm, has...
View ArticleResearch Results: Need for Faster, Easier Cross-Border Payments
New Glenbrook research, sponsored by Earthport, indicates that as companies do business with an increasing number of customers and suppliers over seas, they desire better cross-border payment systems....
View Article“FX for the Little Guy” Western Union’s Small Business Payment Solution
Glenbrook’s Carol Coye Benson and Erin McCune are interviewing leading commercial payment providers and enablers to understand whether we’ve finally reached the ‘tipping point’ for B2B payments. This...
View ArticleCross-Border Payments Perspectives [New Glenbrook Research]
Glenbrook recently conducted two surveys to develop a detailed understanding of the ideal cross-border payments solution from the perspectives of both payments professionals and payments initiators. We...
View ArticleThe Dawn of a New Era for Small Biz Banking? [Dispatch from NACHA Payments 2012]
I was at NACHA’s annual payments conference last week and the most interesting things I heard and saw had to do with small business banking and payments, a long suffering, underserved segment of the...
View ArticleCo-Dependence Between Banks and Their Technologists: Hampering Innovation
Talking to banks and the biggest bank technology vendors at NACHA’s annual payments conference last week I couldn’t help thinking how they suffer from similar challenges. Big banks are hampered by...
View ArticleIs AribaPay a Game Changer for B2B Payments? Maybe. For now we have more...
Recently Ariba/SAP and Discover announced that they intend to “transform” commercial payments. AribaPay is either the most significant B2B payments news in decades or just one more courageous entrant...
View ArticleWhat’s Your GPA?
As a biller or merchant, you are vitally concerned about your payments “back office”, that set of core functions involved with accepting consumer payments. Whether you are in Treasury or Technology, if...
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