Last week, Ronald Mann (University of Texas at Austin) announced the release of his book Charging Ahead:
“[Charging Ahead] provides a comprehensive look at the policy implications of credit cards, weaving together empirical analysis, historical information about the rise and global deployment of credit cards and debit cards, and incisive analysis of the policy implications of their use.”
At an investor and analyst conference earlier this week, First Data CEO Ric Duques provided seven trends that First Data sees in the payments industry
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The speech given by the Federal Reserve’s Vice Chairman Donald L. Kohn today at the Western Payments Alliance 2006 Payments Symposium in Las Vegas has been published here. Some of his remarks regarding Check 21:
…payments related revenue for banks anyway: This is a good post by James Gardner, a financial services veteran who writes the BankerVision blog.
In this article on ACH and image convergence, the author states:
The Payments System Research Department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City has published an article by Barbara Pacheco, senior vice president of financial services, titled “The U.S. Retail Payments System in Transition: Federal Reserve Initiatives“. Read more »
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