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ETA OFFICE OF COMMUNICATIONS

Scott Talbott
Senior Vice President of Government Affairs
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2024

8.20.24
ETA Announces Kurt Strawhecker as 2024 Hall of Fame Inductee
4.15.24
ETA Announces its 2024 Board of Directors
3.21.24
ETA Honors Outstanding Achievements with 2024 Star Awards at TRANSACT
2.21.24
ETA Announces the Top 10 Payments ISVs and Top Payments Sales Professionals Award Winners
2.14.24
ETA and Discover Global Network Unveil Forty Under 40 Honorees and the 2024 Cohort of the Young Payments Professional Scholars Program
2.12.24
ETA Announces Agenda and Speakers for TRANSACT 2024
1.25.24
2024 Policy Priorities

2023

10.24.23
ETA CEO to Testify Before House Financial Services Subcommittee on Wednesday

4.10.23
ETA Releases Agenda and Speakers for TRANSACT

2.21.23
ETA Releases Annual Report on Advancing Economic Inclusion – Empowering Underserved Communities with Fintech

2.21.23
ETA Announces the Top 10 Payments ISVs Award Winners

2.9.23
ETA and Discover Global Network Recognize 40 Trailblazers of the Payments Industry

2.9.23
ETA and Discover Global Networks Recognize the Best and Brightest in Payments with its 2023 Young Payments Professional Scholars Program

1.19.23
ETA Announces 2023 Board of Directors

2022

11.17.22
Payments Technology Driving Holiday Shopping, Finds TSG / ETA Survey

10.3.22
ETA Announces the Appointment of Brian Yates as Senior Director of State Government Affairs

6.13.22
Survey Shows 82% of Small Businesses Accept Peer-to-Peer Payments

5.11.22
Leading MSB Industry Associations Unveil Anti-Money Laundering Best Practices

4.13.22
ETA Presents Star Awards at 2022 TRANSACT

4.4.22
ETA Names Forty Under 40: Pacesetters of the Payments Technology Industry

3.24.22
ETA Introduces 2022 Young Payments Professionals Scholars

3.9.22
ETA Applauds Executive Order Ensuring Responsible Development of Digital Assets

2.28.22
ETA Announces the Appointment of Riaz Ladha as Vice President of Industry Affairs

2.7.22
New Whitepaper Reveals How Payments Industry Fast-Tracked Innovation During Pandemic to Benefit Underserved Communities

1.20.22
ETA Welcomes the Federal Reserve’s CBDC Discussion Paper

1.7.22
Cryptoassets, CBDC, and Privacy are Major Priorities for ETA’s Public Policy Agenda for 2022

2021

11.22.21
TSG / ETA Holiday Survey Finds Consumer Concerns Are Not Stopping Them From Spending

11.1.21
ETA Applauds President's Working Group Report on Stablecoin

10.21.21
ETA Statement on CFPB Order on Consumer Data

9.29.21
ETA Announces 2021 ETA Star Awards – Response to COVID-19

9.14.21
ETA Releases ‘5 Guiding Principles for Crypto’

5.5.21
ETA Releases ‘7 Guiding Principles’ for Creation of U.S. CBDC

4.29.21
TSG/ETA Survey Shows SMBs Relied on Digital Payments to Survive 2020

4.13.21
ETA Announces New State Government Relations Hire

4.7.21
ETA Announces New Senior Marketing & Communications Hires

3.24.21
Third Edition of ETA Payment Facilitator Guidelines Demonstrates Commitment to Fighting Fraud

3.11.21
ETA Commends Congress’ Passage of Additional Stimulus Funding Through Digital Payments

3.3.21
Payments Industry Expands Access for Underserved Customers

1.11.21
ETA Announces 2021 Board of Directors

2020

12.21.20
ETA Applauds the Passage of the Second Major Coronavirus Relief Bill

11.30.20
ETA Welcomes Max Behlke as Director of State Government Affairs

11.24.20
TSG / ETA Holiday Survey Finds Credit / Debit Cards the Top Payment Choice This Holiday Season

11.8.20
Electronic Transactions Association Congratulates President-elect Biden, Vice President-elect Harris

8.10.20
ETA Releases Fourth Edition of Merchant and ISO Underwriting & Risk Monitoring Guidelines for Payments Companies

7.1.20
ETA Welcomes the Modernization of Trade Relations Between the United States, Mexico and Canada as the USMCA Enters into Force

7.1.20
SMB's in a Pandemic World: The Race to Reopen [An ETA/TSG Survey]

7.1.20
SMB's in a Pandemic World: The Race to Reopen [Infographic]

6.11.20
Modern Payment Tools Assisted in Delivering Billions in Stimulus Dollars

4.9.20
Small Business Owners See Expanded Use of Contactless, Some Increases in Sales During COVID-19

3.30.20
ETA Launches COVID-19 Resource Site Highlighting the Payments Industry’s Response to the Current Pandemic and Resources for Small Businesses

3.25.20
ETA Applauds Senate for Historic Coronavirus Stimulus Package

3.19.20
ETA CEO Jodie Kelley Recognized by PaymentsSource as an Influential Woman in Payments

3.16.20
TRANSACT Cancelled Due to COVID-19

3.12.20
ETA Announces Expansion to Canada to Support Growth and Innovation in North American Market

3.11.20
ETA Announces 2020 Forty Under 40 Honorees

2.3.20
ETA Releases Annual White Paper on FinTech and Underserved Consumers

1.15.20
ETA Statement on Impact of Phase One Trade Deal on U.S. Payment Companies’ Ability to Operate in China

1.14.20
ETA Announces 2020 Young Payments Professionals Scholars

2019

12.19.19
ETA Statement on USMCA Implementation Act

12.16.19
ETA Announces 2020 Board of Directors

12.13.19
ETA Supports Phase One to Address Tariffs

12.13.19
ETA Commends Congress for Passing USMCA

10.28.19
Small Businesses Struggle to Succeed Due to Increased Cyber Threats

9.5.19
2019 ETA Hall of Fame Inductees to be Honored at ETA’s Strategic Leadership Forum

8.15.19
Jodie L. Kelley Named CEO of the Electronic Transactions Association

8.6.19
ETA/TSG U.S. Spending Snapshot: Spending Growth Robust in the First Quarter of 2019

6.19.19
ETA Voices Opposition to Tariffs on Cash Registers and Point-of-Sale Devices in Testimony Before the United States Trade Representative

6.11.19
Payments Technology Leaders to Speak about the Expanding SMB Market for Payment Products and Services at TRANSACT Tech Atlanta

6.6.19
ETA Opposes Tariffs on Cash Registers and Point-of-Sale Devices Manufactured in Mexico

5.22.19
ETA Urges U.S. Congress and Parliament of Canada to Ratify Trade Agreement

5.2.19
ETA/TSG U.S. Spending Snapshot: Consumer Spending Via Electronic Payments Sees Growth in Q4 2018 Year-Over-Year

2.26.19
ETA Announces 2019 Forty Under 40: Gamechangers of the Payments Technology Industry

2.21.19
ETA Appoints Amy Zirkle as Interim CEO

2.19.19
ETA/TSG U.S. Spending Snapshot: Overall Growth of Consumer Spending Via Electronic Payments Doubled Year-Over-Year in 2018

2.14.19
ETA Announces First Companies to Achieve ETA Self-Regulation Certificate

2.04.19
ETA White Paper Examines How Financial Technology Innovation Provides Access, Affordability, and Convenience to the Underserved

1.24.19
Oxman to Step Down as ETA CEO

1.24.19
ETA Leaders Elected to PCI Board of Directors

1.17.19
ETA Announces 2019 Member Committee and Council Leadership

2018

12.12.18
ETA Announces 2019 Young Payments Professionals Scholars

12.6.18
ETA Statement on the Confirmation of Kathleen Kraninger

12.5.18
ETA Announces 2019 ETA Board of Directors

11.7.18
ETA Congratulates Victorious Midterm Candidates

11.6.18
ETA Welcomes Jeffery Patchen as Manager of Government Affairs

10.17.18
TRANSACT Tech San Francisco to Examine the Impact of Software Providers on the Payments Industry

10.04.18
Pace of Innovation in the Payments Industry Takes Center Stage at ETA’s Strategic Leadership Forum

10.03.18
Eight Payments Pioneers Honored at ETA Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony

10.03.18
ETA/TSG U.S. Spending Snapshot: Consumer Confidence Drives Retail and Discretionary Spending Growth

9.27.18
ETA Announces Updated Payment Facilitator Guidelines 

9.25.18
ETA Strategic Leadership Forum to Feature Blue-Chip Payments Executives

9.4.18
ETA Announces Corporate Self-Regulation Program, Demonstrating Payments Industry Commitment to Fighting Fraud

8.29.18
ETA Names Eight Payments Pioneers to the 2018 Hall of Fame 

8.21.18
ETA Announces Expansion to Canada to Foster the Next Era of Payments Technology on the Global Marketplace

8.21.18
L’ETA annonce sa présence accrue au Canada pour favoriser la prochaine ère de la technologie des paiements sur le marché mondial

8.21.18
ETA to Testify Before United States Trade Representative in Opposition to Tariffs on Point-of-Sale Components and PIN Pads

7.29.18
ETA Applauds OCC For Recognizing the Role of FinTech in Today’s Economy

7.28.18
ETA Applauds Treasury Department for Supporting an Innovative Regulatory Environment

7.27.18
ETA Mourns the Passing of Joe Kaplan

06.05.2018
Payments Technology Innovation Takes Center Stage at ETA's TRANSACT Tech Atlanta

05.31.2018
Report: Online Lending Empowers U.S. Small Businesses to Generate 358k Jobs and $40 Billion for the Economy Over Three Years

04.12.2018
Tariffs on Point of Sale Imports Will Hurt Payments Industry, Says ETA

03.21.2018
ETA Announces Forty Under 40: Recognizing Leaders Across the Digital Payments Ecosystem

03.07.2018
TRANSACT Tech New York City to Feature the Latest Payments Authentication Innovation

02.26.2018
American Express Digital Labs Executive to Keynote TRANSACT Tech New York City

01.23.2018
ETA Announces 2018 Committee Leadership

01.23.2018
Voice Commerce, Software Solutions Top Trends in 2018, Finds Market Spotlight