Track: Payment Systems

PayItGreen: A Sustainable Business Opportunity

Tuesday, October 21, 2008
2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Room: 515 B

Built on a platform of environmental research, PayItGreen provides business payment and billing strategies and practices that promote the long-term well being of the environment, customers, and the bottom line. This session will focus on the framework and core elements of PayItGreen, and demonstrate how any business can integrate and use the PayItGreen tools to impact their corporate sustainability programs and processes.

Speakers:

• Jack Lamey
  Manager, Finance
  Qwest Communications

• Craig T. Vaream
  Managing Director, ACH & Global Check Products
  J.P. Morgan

• Mark Tizzard
  Strategic Product Development Manager
  Electronic Payments Network

Objectives

• Understand the PayItGreen "fit" in corporate sustainability practices
• Understand the validity of the research and core elements of PayItGreen
• Begin to integrate PayItGreen across business lines to stop the paper cycle by increasing consumer use of electronic payments, bills and statements

Pre-Requisites

• A basic understanding of cash management
• An interest in sustainable business practices

Take-Aways

• Business Tool Kit for PayItGreen
• Case Study: A Corporate Success Story

CPA Field of Study: MAS