Earlier today, PayPal president Scott Thompson presented at the eBay Analyst day (the first done by the company since 2006) and I will do my best to summarize his key points here in this post. The primary message I heard was that PayPal intends to dominate e-commerce transactions worldwide. In addition, I’m including the PayPal-specific […]
Former Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and Governor of Pennsylvania Tom Ridge keynoted this morning’s opening of the Merchant Risk Council. What a great speaker! Note that Ridge also sits on the board of Ethoca (www.ethoca.com). Ridge focused on managing risk in environment of uncertainty. He cited ties fraud to domestic/national security […]
Is Now the Time for Online PIN Debit? This session was presented by Mike Strada from Chase Paymentech. Mike is a fan of online PIN debit, especially the notion of giving merchants more choices. His discussion focused on the different options the 12 North American debit networks are exploring. Several of the debit networks are […]
I‘m in Las Vegas today attending the Merchant Risk Council’s Platinum Day Sessions. I’ll be blogging my comments from the sessions here along with my colleague Jay DeWitt who’s also attending this year’s MRC. Fraud Prevention on eBay Marketplace Unfortunately my plane landed such that I was only able to catch the tail end of […]
The Merchant Risk Council is holding its 7th Annual e-Commerce Payments and Risk Conference on March 10-12, 2009 in Las Vegas Nevada. I will be leading a panel discussion at the conference on “Payments as Business Strategy”. In this discussion, we will highlight how payments management is an important part of any eCommerce Merchant’s overall […]
A Report from the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago’s 2008 Payments Conference by Linda Elliott I’ve just returned from the Chicago Federal Reserve Banks’ 2008 Payments Conference where this year’s topic was Payments Fraud: Perception versus Reality. The conference had good presentations on fraud perspectives in payments ranging from check processing to PayPal, mobile commerce, […]
[This is just one of my series of posts from the NACHA Payments 2008 conference in Las Vegas.] NetDeposit and the Future of Remote Deposit Capture [NACHA Payments] After exchanging "small world" stories demonstrating all the ways that Danne Buchanan and I should have crossed paths before this week, we settled into a discussion of the […]
I am live blogging from Finovate Startup in San Francisco. Jim Bruene and his team at NetBanker have gathered 40 startups, rebrandings, and company debuts in online banking and finance. Each participant has a brief 5 minutes to demo their product so I’ll be typing as fast as I can. (Please forgive typos!) AFTERNOON SESSION […]
by Allen Weinberg This year’s annual ETA seemed bigger than in previous years, and from almost everyone that I spoke to, much more exhausting. In my humble opinion, this was the first year that had a really compelling set of sessions to choose from. Unfortunately, I and quite a few others were never able to […]
[I am in Las Vegas for the TAWPI Payments in Transition conference – these are my notes from one of the sessions. An index of all of the sessions and links to the rest of my notes is here. – EMc] Distributed Capture Panel Discussion Wally Vogel, President, Creditron Mary Hockridge, Executive VP, NetDeposit Brandon […]
[I am in Las Vegas for the TAWPI Payments in Transition conference – these are my notes from one of the sessions. An index of all of the sessions and links to the rest of my notes is here. – EMc] Check 21 Road Map: One Bank's Journey Into the 21st CenturyJR Thornton, AVP Indirect […]
[I am in Las Vegas for the TAWPI Payments in Transition conference – these are my notes from one of the sessions. An index of all of the sessions and links to the rest of my notes is here. – EMc] Distributed Capture: Trends, Opportunities & ChallengesDavid Peterson, Executive VP, Goldleaf Financial Solutions [program blurb] […]
[I am in Las Vegas for the TAWPI Payments in Transition conference – these are my notes from one of the sessions. An index of all of the sessions and links to the rest of my notes is here. – EMc] Keynote Address: Managing the Changing Mix of PaymentsBrian Hurdis, President, Metavante Image Solutions [program […]
(via PaymentsNews) In anticipation of VISA's IPO (scheduled for later this week, as if the market isn't crazy enough) Adam Levitin, a professor at Georgetown Law, has a thoughtful post outlining a payments future no longer dominated by the card networks, one in which the needs of merchants, consumers, and banks are more balanced. The […]
I've been intrigued by the idea of a BarCamp – informal, unstructured, participant-organized conferences where people with similar interests share and learn in an open environment – since I read about them in other (mostly technology) blogs. There is an upcoming banking/finance BarCamp in San Francisco (well, actually at UC Berkeley) and I just signed […]