The Financial Services Technology Consortium (FSTC) has announced an initiative "to examine the various technology models supporting mobile payments today and to make recommendations on an approach that would facilitate an interoperable mobile payments infrastructure in the future." READ MORE »

The Financial Services Technology Consortium's annual conference this year is being held June 17-19 at the Hyatt Vineyard Creek Hotel in Sonoma County, California. The theme of this year's conference is "On the Innovative Edge: Successful Strategies for Financial Services". The agenda with speaker details is available online along with registration. Note that Early Bird registrations are only available through tomorrow. After tomorrow, registration fees for the conference increase.

Update: The Early Bird registration rates are still available - through April 28.

The Financial Services Technology Consortium has announced a new Mobile Banking and Payments Project. The first phase will "identify and document technology-based opportunities for banks in the mobile arena." The project proposal is available online.

The Financial Services Technology Consortium has posted some of the presentations from its recent Annual Conference to its website.

The Clearing House Payments Company (TCH) and the Financial Services Technology Consortium (FSTC) have
announced a joint initiative to help the financial services industry identify ways to facilitate mobile payments for consumers and businesses.

The Financial Services Technology Consortium (FSTC) has announced its annual conference and general meeting will be held in Dallas on May 16-17. On May 15, the FSTC will he holding a Mobile Payments Workshop - also in Dallas.

The Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG), American Bankers Association (ABA) and the Financial Services Technology Consortium (FSTC) have announced joint sponsorship of the inaugural Counter-eCrime Operations Summit (CeCOS), "a conference for counter-ecrime stakeholders focusing on the management of electronic crime events and the work of the professionals charged with engaging these increasingly threatening and costly incidents."

A number of presentations from the annual meeting of the Financial Services Technology Consortium (FSTC) held last week in New York are available online.

The Financial Services Technology Consortium (FSTC) has announced that the General Services Administration (GSA) is requesting information on the capability of commercial and other entities to provide identity credential services to support public access to Internet-based online government services. A copy of the RFI is available for download.

Mentioned earlier here on Payments News, the Financial Services Technology Consortium (FSTC) has formally announced that it has launched a major project aimed at authenticating financial institutions to their customers.

The Financial Services Technology Consortium has announced the "Authenticating the FI to Consumers" project, a follow-on to the recently concluded Better Mutual Authentication Project. The project intends to develop use cases dealing with authenticating the FI to consumers, along with applicable threat analyses, processes, evaluation metrics and the testing of combinations of various important emerging technology solutions against Financial Services community use cases and requirements. A project prospectus is available from Dan Schutzer or Chris Nautiyal at the FSTC.

The Financial Services Technology Consortium (FSTC) has announced the conclusion of phase I of its Better Mutual Authentication (BMA) Project, part of an on-going effort to secure access to customer accounts and combat fraud across the financial services industry.

The FSTC Board of Directors has announced Daniel Schutzer as the new FSTC Executive Director, effective February 27, 2006.

Steven Marlin in Information Week reports on the Financial Services Technology Consortium's (FSTC) counterphishing effort.