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Founded in 2001, Glenbrook is a payments strategy consulting firm that delivers a unique combination of specialized skills in electronic and mobile payments, years of hands-on operating experience in executive roles, and an extensive network of trusted relationships to payments clients, merchant treasury, corporate finance teams and investors in financial services and financial technology.
Our unique expertise in mobile payments, global eCommerce payments acceptance and fraud risk management helps our clients improve the profitability of their payments-related businesses.
In concert with our primary strategy consulting practice, we focus on the needs of payments professionals for knowledge and insight with Glenbrook's Payments Education series - including our Payments Boot Camps, Private Payments Workshops, daily Payments News blog, the Payments Jobs career center, and our individual writings here.
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What's New at Glenbrook
Dr. Taher Elgamal Joins Glenbrook As Special Advisor
Over the years, Taher has made many contributions to the field of IT security including being the "inventor of SSL", the secure sockets layer protocol that is the foundation for secure banking and ecommerce transactions over open networks. In April, Taher was awarded the RSA Conference Lifetime Achievement Award for his contributions to the field of IT security and, in particular, for his work on SSL.
We're delighted to have Taher join the Glenbrook team!
Glenbrook's Global eCommerce Acceptance Services
Whether you’re a merchant domiciled only in the US, or if you’re a merchant with a “footprint” outside of the US, Glenbrook has the expertise to help you reach as broad an audience as is feasible, ensuring that you are able to accept the forms of payment your target customers have access to, are comfortable with, and prefer to use.
For more information about Glenbrook's services in this area, click here.
Glenbrook's Jay DeWitt at the MRC Annual Conference, March 10-12
Glenbrook's Jay DeWitt will be leading a panel discussion at the conference on "Payments as Business Strategy". In this discussion, Jay and the panel will highlight how payments management is an important part of any eCommerce Merchant's overall strategy, both in keeping expenses in line but also, and, even more importantly, contributing to top line revenues.
Card Network Earnings Are In - It’s Now Safe to Exhale!
"It seems like it’s been a month now that we at Glenbrook – and people all around the payments business – have been holding our collective breath waiting to see what level of purchase volumes would be reported by MasterCard and Visa for Q4 2008. Well, the results came in the last 24 hours, and while it wasn’t pretty, the numbers weren’t quite so bad as some had feared. In fact, in some ways, they were a mildly pleasant surprise."
Erin McCune Joins Glenbrook Partners
Glenbrook's 2009 Payments Education Schedule
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.
