November / December 2017
12-6-2017
SECURE ATTITUDES
Data security is top of mind for payments professionals, but are their merchant clients making it a priority? We talked to a handful of professionals from various niche functions and present excerpts of their comments for quick takeaway. Bottom line: Merchants need the payments community’s expertise.
TRANSACTION TRENDS EXCLUSIVE CE SERIES: MAKING THE CONSUMER CONNECTION
Today’s consumers are more “connected” than ever, and are increasingly making their purchases online via PCs, mobile devices, wearable technology, and IoT. Find out how “Connected Spenders” are influencing spending trends, and learn to educate merchants on this demographic of early adopters.
ETA CPPs: earn ETA CPP Continuing Education (CE) credits. Read this article, then visit ETA CPP Quizzes to test your knowledge and earn 2 ETA CPP CE credits per quiz!
DEPARTMENTS
@ETA
Announcements and ideas from ETA’s CEO Jason Oxman
INTELLIGENCE
Vital facts and stats from the electronic payments world
POLITICS & POLICY
Political, economic, and advocacy updates affecting your business
COMMENTS
Addressing merchants’ seven greatest concerns
PEOPLE
Christophe Vergne from Capgemeni Financial Services France shares insights from the “World Payments Report”
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.