September / October 2018
10-9-2018
EVALUATING THE STATE OF DISTRIBUTED LEDGER TECHNOLOGY
Digital currencies are making waves, but will Bitcoin (BTC) and its crypto-brethren ever replace the payments system as we know it? For Ari Juels and Ittay Eyal, co-director and associate director, respectively, of the Initiative for CryptoCurrencies and Contracts (IC3), cryptocurrencies and the distributed ledger technology that underpins them face several substantial limitations before they can reach mainstream adoption.
DEPARTMENTS
@ETA
Announcements and ideas from ETA’s CEO Jason Oxman
INTELLIGENCE
Vital facts and stats from the electronic payments world and ETA
POLITICS & POLICY
Political, economic, and advocacy updates affecting your business
INDUSTRY AFFAIRS
A look at how payments industry evolution can shape your business
PAYMENTS INSIDER
Understanding appraisals and M&A activity in the payments industry
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.