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All Payments Expo is taking place March 3-5 at The Mirage in Las Vegas. All Payments Expo is the annual meeting place for payments professionals focused on areas of growth and convergence in payments. Our mission is to catalyze the partnerships necessary to build the next generation of payments, from the mobile environment to the brick-and-mortar POS.

It's a new year, and 2014 promises to be a big one for payments players. With new products being developed, competition intensifying and regulation and interchange rulings expected this year, partnerships are powering major moves in the next fiscal year.

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Win a Free Pass to All Payments Expo 2014

All Payments Expo, alongside our event partner Global Processing Services (GPS), are conducting market research to better understand the relationship between program managers and their processing partners. You will automatically be entered to win one free event pass to All Payments Expo 2014 (which can be used by you or transferred to a colleague) in exchange for filling out this brief survey.  The survey will take you less than 3 minutes to complete!

Please click the following link to take the survey:

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/MD26VT6

      


The winner will be announced on Tuesday February 18, 2014.

In advance, thank you for participating.  We look forward to receiving your answers.

Thank you,
Diana Middleton
Global Payments Director
All Payments Expo

Neil Weeks
Chief Commercial Officer
Global Processing Services FZLLC

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Q&A with Matt Davies, Executive Director, Gift Card Network

2014 All Payments Expo speaker Matt Davies, Executive Director, Gift Card Network sits down with APEX for a brief Q&A about the future of the payments industry. To hear more about the landscape of the payments industry from Matt, make sure you register for APEX today! And remember, blog readers receive a 10% discount - register here.


1) What is the most overheated opportunity for payments players? What is the most overlooked that should get more attention?

Mobile Wallets and its many iterations has dominated the discussion without bothering to define it. There are so many different concepts and approaches that the market is confused and will stay stagnant until a major player comes in and pushes the market in a specific direction with a goal that the public and merchant population has bought into and finds value in.

Education about the payments space is the most important thing for us to focus on. Startups needing merchant support must look at the things that merchants care about, and go about building their own brand and market share prior to asking for support, and educate and market themselves to their potential clients in a comfortable way.

2) What is one thing blocking innovation for payments in the U.S.?

The cultural difference between entrepreneurs, who are have incentive to break the rules, and the decision makers, who have incentive to create new rules or play by them. There is a vast difference between what CAN be done and what SHOULD be done for each particular merchant- we need to break down the psychological barriers and engage in neutral problem-solving conversations.

3) In ten years, what will be the new payment type that’s gotten the most traction?

Flat transaction rate credit and debit card providers. It's an ideal state for retailers to get away from the percentage based model, and it allows consumers to utilize credit.
 
That, or monkey-bucks.

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All Payments Expo is taking place March 3-5 at The Mirage in Las Vegas. All Payments Expo is the annual meeting place for payments professionals focused on areas of growth and convergence in payments. Our mission is to catalyze the partnerships necessary to build the next generation of payments, from the mobile environment to the brick-and-mortar POS. 

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Partnering Round Up: 12/23 – 1/3

All Payments Expo is committed to catalyzing value add partnerships for the betterment of the ecosystem. Here’s the weekly roundup of partnership news:

•  “FAA Federal Credit Union, University of Nebraska Federal Credit Union and Valley Credit Union have selected industry partners CheckAlt, iParse and CU Wireless as their mobile deposit solution provider. The move signals the company’s intention to expand their partnerships into 2014.” To learn more about this partnership, click here.

• “MasterCard, eServGlobal and BICS have announced the formation of HomeSend, a joint venture which will enable consumers to send money to and from mobile money accounts, payment cards and bank accounts regardless of their location.” To learn more about this partnership, click here.

•  “Q2, a provider of enterprise solutions for secure virtual banking, together with Urban Partnership Bank, has announced the successful implementation of upbAnywhere for online and mobile banking. Using the Q2platform, Urban Partnership Bank account holders can now securely access their bank accounts and manage money whenever and wherever they want using a computer, tablet or mobile phone.” To learn more about this partnership, click here.

• “Bank of America Merill Lynch has signed a multi-year agreement with cross-border PSP Earthport that will significantly expand the bank’s low value clearing capabilities worldwide, and advance the efficiency of its high volume, low value payments.” To learn more about this partnership, click here.

Click here for more information on partnering and how you can guarantee ROI at All Payments Expo.

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