Program Roadmap

Program Tracks & Concurrent Sessions Concurrent education sessions are held Monday, May 19 through Wednesday, May 21. These sessions are categorized by six tracks, which correspond to a particular payment method, concept or audience. Only attendees with white badges may attend concurrent sessions.

The Payments Biz 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.

The Corporate Payments Solutions 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.

The Automated Clearing House (ACH) 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.

The Check Electronification 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.

The Global Focus 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.

The Card Solutions 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.