Payments Technology

Engagement Payments Technology

Building relationships within the tech community

The MAG offers the payments tech community an opportunity for ongoing networking, learning, and engagement through participation in MAG committees, communities, webinars, and in-person events. Discuss shared challenges such as modernizing payments platforms, optimizing payments processes, combating fraud, and increasing data security. The technology community brings together viewpoints across the top merchants in the country, leading technology providers, and industry experts.

 

Highlights

Adopting and Implementing Payment Account Reference (PAR)

Adopting and Implementing Payment Account Reference (PAR)

Payment Account Reference (PAR) is a unique identifier, a 29-character non-financial reference value, associated with the primary account number (PAN)...
MAG Insights: Decoding the QR Code

MAG Insights: Decoding the QR Code

MAG Insights: When Less is More, the EMVCo C-8 Contactless Kernel

MAG Insights: When Less is More, the EMVCo C-8 Contactless Kernel

EXPLORING PAYMENTS TECHNOLOGY

EXPLORING PAYMENTS TECHNOLOGY

Interpret and compare the various types of payments processing channels and flows, and technical considerations (in-store and online), to enable...

MAG Insights: A Closer Look at ISO 20022

MAG Insights: A Closer Look at ISO 20022

Merchant Reference Guide: Standards Bodies That Matter to Payments

Merchant Reference Guide: Standards Bodies That Matter to Payments

Standards: Putting the Pieces Together Infographic

Standards: Putting the Pieces Together Infographic

MAG Insights

MAG Insights

Provides articles from the industry and the MAG which impact our members and sponsors. Including articles on pending legislation in Washington, evolution...

Events

Tech Forum

The MAG Tech Forum is aligned with the MAG bi-annual conference, offering education and networking opportunities for payments IT professionals. As payments technology evolves, the MAG Tech Forum connects payments technology experts and leading providers to explore innovative applications of these advancements.

The MAG Tech Forum aims to foster collaboration, provide tech-focused knowledge, and build relationships between merchants, their payments IT and business teams, and technology providers.

 

Tech-focused payment content:

  • Fintech
  • IOT payments
  • Architecture
  • Blockchain
  • Analytics
  • Agile
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Machine learning
  • Gateways
  • Data Science
  • Fraud Mitigation
  • Biometrics
  • Orchestration Layers
  • POS Hardware

Top 5 reasons to attend the Tech Forum

Connect with IT professionals at the Tech Forum and payments professionals at the MAG conference events representing over 150 of the largest U.S. merchants which account for over $4.8 trillion in annual sales across physical and digital commerce.
Create new business connections with Tech Forum and MAG merchant member attendees from every vertical (eCommerce, Airlines, Department Stores, Mass Merchant, Grocery, Hospitality, Hotels Petroleum/Convenience Stores, Small Ticket/Restaurants).

Presentations are available on current industry topics that your business peers across the retail community are grappling with in their companies. Join the strategic discussions and learn best practices for today’s rapidly changing payments environment.

Access to industry experts who provide the latest insights and innovative uses of new payment technologies twice a year through panel and keynote sessions, as well as within the exhibit halls at in-person events.

Beyond the in-person meetings twice a year, participate in the MAG webinar series, online learning, MAG committees, and Community of Practice (COP) efforts offered throughout the year. Want to get even more involved? Be a panelist at one of our upcoming events and share your perspective with fellow merchants.

Tech Forum Sponsorship

Tech Forum Sponsorship offers the opportunity to network and engage with the top retailers in the country. Conferences and webinar sessions are designed for IT professionals to provide attendees with the latest insights needed to understand and use new and emerging technologies in payments.

The Tech Forum Executive Advisory Council along with the support of Tech Forum sponsors will influence the payments technology topics relevant to the membership and included in these Tech Forum sessions. The sessions will discuss how these payments technologies can play a role in creating a more frictionless payments experience for consumers as well as supporting merchants delivering value added services as part of overall commerce.

Tech Forum Sponsor Benefits

Present content as a Tech Forum speaker. Presenters will be selected among Tech Forum sponsors with preference granted to Contributing Sponsors.
Increase brand awareness and visibility with key decision makers through speaking opportunities, conference signage and recognition prior and during event.
Extend your visibility with a complimentary exhibit booth.
Connect with IT professionals at the Tech Forum and payments professionals at the MAG conference events representing over 150 of the largest U.S. merchants which account for over $3.4 trillion in annual sales across physical & digital commerce.

Create new business connections with Tech Forum and MAG merchant member attendees from every vertical (eCommerce, Mass Merchant, Petroleum/Convenience Stores and Small Ticket/Restaurant).

Thank you Tech Forum Sponsors

PayPal

Oct 5, 2020, 10:48 AM
Title : PayPal
Link URL : https://www.paypal.com/us/enterprise

Alternative Payments

The Safer, Easier Way to Pay.
At PayPal, we put people at the center of everything we do. PayPal is a global service that moves the payment amount from your financial institution to the merchant without sharing your financial information.

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Meet our Tech Forum Sponsors 

Accept payments across all sales channels
Let your shoppers use their preferred payment types, via a personalized checkout experience, online, in app, or in store, no matter where in the world they are.

Provide the world’s best customer experience every day. Become essential to our customers by providing differentiated products and services to help them achieve their aspirations. We deliver an unparalleled standard of excellence in everything we do, staying focused on the biggest opportunities to be meaningful to our customers. From our innovative products to our world-class customer service, our customers expect the best—and our teams are proud to deliver it.

Deloitte is a global, full-service management consultancy and systems integrator with a focus on helping clients across all industries manage business and technical change that impacts payments.
Products Designed with You in Mind
We provide banking and credit products that help people achieve their goals–from establishing good credit, to paying for a college education to consolidating debt. In payments, our networks connect banks, cardmembers and merchants around the world with innovative commerce solutions.

Decisions in real-time for a seamless customer experience 
Forter's integrated fraud prevention platform combines predictive fraud research and modeling, merchant input, and our global merchant network, so you can focus on growing your business without worry.

From smart terminals to a cloud-based payments platform and end-to-end terminal management, our innovations are designed to help you succeed in the payments acceptance ecosystem.

J.P. Morgan provides merchant services that can help clients manage costs, drive sales, better navigate the omnichannel payment landscape, and enhance cash flow and the management of receivables. Simplified payments improve sales conversion rates, lessen shopping-cart abandonment, lead to repeat sales and increase customers loyalty. That means sustained growth and greater market share for you.


Kount, an Equifax Company, delivers real-time fraud prevention and account protection to enable personalized customer experiences for more than 9,000 leading brands and payment providers. Linked by award-winning AI, Kount’s Identity Trust Global Network analyzes signals from 32 billion annual interactions to personalize user experiences across the spectrum of trust — from ensuring frictionless experiences to blocking fraud. Quick and accurate identity trust decisions deliver safe payment, account creation, and login events while reducing digital fraud, chargebacks, false positives, and manual reviews.

PayPal

Oct 5, 2020, 10:48 AM
Title : PayPal
Link URL : https://www.paypal.com/us/enterprise

Alternative Payments

The Safer, Easier Way to Pay.
At PayPal, we put people at the center of everything we do. PayPal is a global service that moves the payment amount from your financial institution to the merchant without sharing your financial information.

PayPal logo

Tech Exec Advisors

  • Virender Bhandari
    Hughes Network Systems, LLC
    Advisory Engineer
  • Janeth Falcon
    Circle K
    VP North America Technology
  • Jamie Henry
    Walmart
    Vice President Finance, Emerging Payments
  • Sorin Hilgen
    EG America LLC
    CIO
  • Prasuna Kolachina
    Delta Airlines
    Managing Director, IT
  • John Laffoon
    The Home Depot
    Distinguished Engineer - Payments IT
  • Fanny Miner
    Best Buy
    Director of Payments, Product Management
  • Carrie Morris
    Canadian Tire
    Associate Vice-President, Technology Delivery Payments and Processing
  • Kothai Senthil
    Albertsons Companies, Inc.
    VP, Head of Payments
  • Suguna Subramanian
    Walmart
    VP Payments and Fraud
  • Jonathan Turboer
    Ford Motor Credit
    Head of Payments, North America

Allies and Partnerships

The MAG engages with several organizations that develop, maintain, and influence the standards and specifications that underpin the payments ecosystem. Once published, how they are implemented by different payments stakeholders can have a profound impact on the operations and the regulatory and network compliance of merchants. In this section, we highlight topics that may be of significant interest to merchants.

CURRENT UPDATES

W3C/FIDO Alliance

W3C: An international public-interest non-profit organization that develops standards and guidelines to help everyone build a web-based on the principles of accessibility, internationalization, privacy, and security. FIDO: An open industry association with a focused mission: reduce the world’s reliance on passwords.


The W3C Web Authentication (WebAuthn) standard was developed in coordination with the FIDO Alliance and is a core component of the FIDO2 Project along with FIDO’s Client to Authenticator Protocol (CTAP specification).

  • The Web Payments Security Interest Group (WPSIG) charter extension has been approved. The mission of the WPSIG is to enhance the security and interoperability of various web payments technologies (W3C, FIDO, EMVCo).
X9/ISO

X9: An open body that develops and maintains voluntary consensus standards for the U.S. financial services industry. ISO: A network of national standards bodies that develops and publishes international standards on everything from screw threads to quantum key distribution.


X9 represents the United States on two ISO technical committees related to financial services and their subcommittees.

  • The X9 Board approved a new work item to produce a new standard entitled “Crypto Agility: A Method for Remote Upgrade to a Stronger Terminal Master Keys”.
  • The X9 Board approved the creation of a new Industry Forum that will focus on reducing check fraud. X9 industry groups are open to all interested industry participants.
USPF/IAF

USPF: A cross-industry body that enables open exchange of expertise and information to solve problems and help realize innovations that make payments more efficient, simple, and secure. IAF: A cross-industry body dedicated to the development, advancement, and adoption of secure identity technologies, including physical and logical access.


Both organizations operate within the Secure Technology Alliance, an association that encompasses all aspects of secure digital technologies.

  • The Secure Technology Alliance held its Identity & Payments Summit on February 24-26. Over 400 individuals attended the Summit, which had over 35 sessions. Highlights included sessions on facial recognition in payments, life beyond the magstripe, demystifying passkeys, cash in a digital world, and the always popular merchant and issuer special interest group.
EMVCo

A global technical body that creates and manages the EMV® Specifications to enable interoperable and secure card-based payments.

  • EMVCo held its Board of Advisors meeting on March 5-6. Highlights included discussions on the potential impacts of the EUDI Wallet regulation on 3-D Secure, advisor input on enhancing PAR to improve adoption and usability, and using passkeys with SRC. In addition, there were presentations on the digital Euro and instant payments by the Bank of Greece, conformity assessment and EU regulations related to the Cybersecurity Resiliency Act (CRA) by ENISA (European Union Agency for Cybersecurity), and enabling a trusted digital future by the OpenWallet Foundation.
  • The EMVCo Technical Meeting will be held the week of April 7.
FDX

The Financial Data Exchange (FDX) is a non-profit industry standards body operating in the U.S. and Canada dedicated to unifying the financial services ecosystem around a common, interoperable, and royalty-free technical standard for user-permissioned financial data sharing.

  • Much of FDX’s current work is focused on supporting the CFPB’s 1033 ruling requirements that allow consumers to access their financial account information and authorize certain third parties acting on their behalf to access that information.
  • The FDX Global Summit will be held April 21-24.
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Driving positive change and innovation in the payments industry that serves the merchants interest through collaboration, education, and advocacy.