FEBRUARY 2019
SECURE TECH TALK A quarterly newsletter for members and friends of the Alliance
Executive Director Message
In This Issue:
The Alliance has been focused for years on the phone side of the mobile wallet. Quietly, the real revolution is the digital payments ecosystem that the phone has unleashed into the world. The building blocks that began with smart phones with the first NFC chips, then the secure elements, then tokenization, then biometrics authentication, and now omni-channel payments processing, have brought this digital commerce market to a whole new dimension. I write about this in my letter this quarter.
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Feature Webinar: U.S. Payments Forum Webinar: Mobile and Digital Wallets – Strategic Considerations for Issuers The final webinar in the U.S. Payments Forum mobile and digital wallet “lunch and learn” webinar series will cover strategic considerations for issuers. The webinar is scheduled for Feb. 21st, at 2pm ET; registration is available at: https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/3089908444440419330. Click to Read More …
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Payments Summit 2019
Phoenix, AZ, March 11-14, 2019
2019 Payments Summit Agenda
Feature Article: Biometric Payment Cards This month’s article is a preview of the soon-to-be-published Secure Technology Alliance Payments Council white paper, “Biometric Payment Cards.” The article describes a specific implementation – one that incorporates fingerprint capture, template storage, and matching on the payment card itself. Click to Read More …
We have an excellent agenda set for the 2019 Payments Summit in Phoenix, AZ. The Payments Summit will kick off the opening-day with plenary keynote sessions featuring industry experts of leading payments transaction infrastructures: EMV chip, mobile, retail, digital and transit payments, and identity and authentication in payments. On the second and third day of the Payments Summit, four separate educational tracks with over 100 speakers will cover current and future payments solutions, technology, and transportation payments. Click to Read More …