Conference Tracks

The PAYMENTS conference agenda is divided into six tracks plus Sunday workshops to help you better plan your conference experience. Track designations are noted before the session description for each session. Sessions are also divided by track on the daily schedules to help direct you to the sessions which best reflect your areas of interest. Decide which sessions you plan to attend in advance with this brochure’s handy timed agenda.

The Payments Biz Sponsored by This track focuses on the issues that matter most for financial institutions and non-bank providers that are in the business of developing and offering payment solutions—organizations that are competing for market share, revenue, and positioning in the payments field. Sessions explore trends, observations, opportunities, challenges, and strategies in today’s market.

Corporate Payments Solutions Sponsored by This track speaks to the payment and treasury interests of corporate users—billers, retailers, merchants, and trading partners.—businesses large and small from across industries that are seeking to learn from their colleagues’ experiences in selecting, implementing, operating, and evaluating solutions provided by the financial services community. Sessions by and for corporate practitioners analyze best practices, metrics, challenges, trends, and practical experiences.

Automated Clearing House (ACH) Sponsored by This track addresses the core issues surrounding the ACH Network and its users, encompassing traditional and emerging applications and approaches. Sessions examine operational issues, audit, rules compliance and enforcement, risk management, fraud prevention, security, authentication and authorization, best practices, trends, and more. A full mix of topics and perspectives will satisfy the aspiring novice and the seasoned ACH professional alike.

Check Electronification Sponsored by This track is composed of sessions dealing with the issues, challenges, experiences, opportunities, trends and developments associated with check electronification, encompassing conversion and truncation methodologies, as well as convergence issues. Subject matter includes the conversion of a paper check to an ACH debit, the use of a check as a source document for Internet and telephone-initiated ACH debits, as well as truncation, imaging, remote deposit capture, and clearing methods. This track features case studies of application and process integration across payment silos from financial institution and customer perspectives.

Global Focus Sponsored by This track examines the latest in strategic thinking and solutions confronting the global payments sector today from both the corporate and financial institution perspectives. Leading issues and major challenges are examined by global payments experts. Sessions feature insights and perspectives from the U.S. community and stakeholders from around the globe, offering a truly international vantage point on the issues that matter most.

Card Solutions Sponsored by This track focuses on the trends, and developments associated with card-based solutions for payments and payment-related business needs. Industry experts address challenges and opportunities within the card industry from both a business process and payment operations view point. Sessions examine business, operational, and technological innovations from both the issuing and acquiring sides of the credit and debit card environments.   Sunday Workshops Sponsored by Bank of America, Fifth Third Bank, JPMorgan Chase, Sterling Commerce, Wachovia Bank N.A., Wells Fargo Workshops give you the in-depth working knowledge you need in a variety of electronic payments and eCommerce related subjects. Workshops are generally scheduled with more fundamental aspects of the various subjects in the first set, followed by more advanced discussions and concepts in the second set. If you are new to certain areas of the electronic payments industry, or need to brush up on your skill sets and learn the latest concepts, then workshops are definitely designed for you. A separate registration fee is required for all workshops.