Rapid Payments Changes, But To Where?

The old saying goes, “The more things change, the more they stay the same.” The band YES [I know….I just dated myself] famously sang, “Change changing places.” Another anonymous intellectual once said, “The only thing we can count on is change.” Flying home from a long two weeks of work travel and wondering to myself

Payments Future: Dealing With a Growing Threat

Bouncing from one conference to another the past week, first in DC and then in San Antonio…and I am still reading through my notes, and reminiscing about all the buzz around payments at the 2014 ATM&Mobile Summit, as well as the 2014 TAG National Conference with Diebold. If you get to go next year, I

Losing Site (Sight) of What Your (You’re) Trying to Say…Maybe I’m Looking at It Wrong?

Baby blue, a little smaller than a Bible, and about 2″ thick? What in the world am I describing? Well, if you ever had to stand at a chalk board [yes…I know that dates me] and diagram a sentence you know exactly what I am talking about: a grammar textbook. From my first days in

Duck, Cover, and Move Forward: The Card Brand Battle Rages On

Discover Offers Discount to Banks in Bid to Gain on Visa, MasterCard “The reduced pricing for Discover’s signature debit card network will apply to the more than 4,000 banks that are members of the American Bankers Association.” It’s funny….when VISA or MC has done this publicly with banks and merchants in the past, they were

The Windows are Cleaned. Now What?

Having ‘survived’ the conversion to Windows 7, not to mention upgrading to Diebold’s new Agilis 3.0 and a total processing conversion of PIN and ATM, for our ATM fleet and PIN debit processing, we are left looking out at the landscape to ask, “What’s next?” Speaking to many colleagues either on a one-2-one basis, or