Introducing The Voice of Payments: It Pays to Be Heard, a New ETA Member Benefit
6-26-2019
By Amy Zirkle, Interim CEO, ETA.
Whether it’s before a government agency, or a private entity that sets rules and regulations, ETA and its team of advocates work on your behalf to keep policymakers informed and supportive of our innovative and transformational industry.
And if you ask any member of the ETA team to identify the most important tool in their toolkit to accomplish this mission, the answer will always be the same: you.
To that end, we are proud to introduce a new program called The Voice of Payments: It Pays to Be Heard, a grassroots project from ETA to give payments professionals a central, convenient conduit through which they can get involved directly in ETA’s advocacy efforts.
With The Voice of Payments: It Pays to Be Heard, ETA members will have two new avenues to stay informed and engaged with the top issues and initiatives that our policy team is working on. The first is a monthly The Voice of Payments Bulletin (subscribe today), which will take the complex machinations of federal and state governments and distill them to essential information on how they affect your business, and then provide opportunities for you to directly engage with policymakers to make your voice heard on the issues.
The second new product is an action alert system. These alerts will be sent to ETA members when legislation or other policy developments present the potential to change or otherwise affect their businesses.
Together, we can work to cultivate a public policy environment that encourages growth and rewards innovation for payments technology companies who are powering global commerce.
The Voice of Payments: It Pays to Be Heard, is exclusive to ETA members. To become a member, contact ETA Membership Manager Brad Brewer at [email protected].
About ETA
The Electronic Transactions Association (ETA) is the world’s leading advocacy and trade association for the payments industry. Our members span the breadth of significant payments and fintech companies, from the largest incumbent players to the emerging disruptors in the U.S. and in more than a dozen countries around the world. ETA members make commerce possible by processing approximately $56.75 trillion annually in purchases and P2P payments worldwide and deploying payments innovation to merchants and consumers.
ETAs membership spans the breadth of the payments industry to include independent sales organizations (ISOs), payments networks, financial institutions, transaction processors, mobile payments products and services, payments technologies, and software providers (ISV) and hardware suppliers. For more information, visit electran.org.