By Allen Weinberg MORNING SESSION #1 - Whew - what a whirlwind! Companies get 7 minutes to demo their products/services before the microphone is cut off. Some very interesting stuff flying by at warp speed (so please excuse the grammar/any typos)! So here goes:...
I was Twittering away throughout the conference (full archive of conference related Twitter posts here) thus neglecting coverage here at Payments Views. So here are some belated highlights, observations, and recurring themes from last week's NACHA Payments 2009...
Heidi Miller, CEO JPMorgan Treasury & Securities Services, didn't pull any punches this morning when she addressed the NACHA Payments 2009 conference. The financial crisis - and resulting economic uncertainty - is just one of the real dangers to the ACH network...
Fresh off raising another $42 million of star-studded (Goldman Sachs this time) venture capital, Steve Case and Jason Hogg came to the NACHA Payments 2009 conference today to tell the banking world about their payments "Revolution". Apart from reiterating last week's...
Last year I attended the original BarCampBank San Francisco and had a fantastic time (I blogged about the experience here.) It is an unstructured, participant-organized, conference on banking/payments/financial services innovation. BarCampBank events have been held in...
Next up at today's Merchant Risk Council session was Terry Jones, the founder and former CEO of Travelocity.com - and a FABULOUS speaker! Jones spoke about impact of the Internet on industries, citing travel as being impacted the most; half of all travel is booked...
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...
By Allen Weinberg 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...
By Allen Weinberg 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...
Workshop on Web 2.0 Technologies For Financial Services FaceBook? Twitter? Amazon Flexible Payments? Mint? Zong? Join me and Scott Loftesness of Glenbrook as we explore the world of Web 2.0 technologies and their impact on the payments industry in this one day...
