Glenbrook's Allen Weinberg spent the day at this year's ETA Annual Conference in Las Vegas. He filed this Field Report from 2010 ETA on PaymentsViews.com. What did he find?

• iPhone mag-stripe readers and related services
• A myriad of PCI-centric vendors and offerings
• Small eCommerce gateways

Click to read his just filed Field Report for more details!

The Electronic Transactions Association held its Annual Meeting & Expo in April. Many of the presentations from that meeting are available for downloading from the ETA's web site. Some of the topics include "When Interchange Really Isn't Interchange: The Relevance of Interchange Optimization for Merchants" and "PCI Security & You" .

The 2007 Federal Reserve Payments Study released today concludes that "in 2006 more than two-thirds of all U.S noncash payments were made electronically. From 2003 to 2006, the period covered by the study, all types of electronic payments grew while check payments decreased. The Federal Reserve’s 2004 Payments Study found that the number of electronic payments and check payments were roughly equal in 2003."

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