Payments

• Payments Update: Key Issues from the AFP Payments Advisory Group
• 2012 AFP Payments Fraud and Control Survey
• Payments Fraud Resource Center

• 3Delta Systems: What Keeps CFOs Awake at Night? How to Mitigate the Risk of Payments Fraud (PDF)

• Payments Advisory Group - Treasury Professionals Leadership Group for Payments Issues
  • Industry Spotlight - Special or timely reports on key topics and issues evolving within payments
  • Advanced Topics - Special presentations developed by Industry experts for the PAG Group
  • Best Practices - Expert reports focused on a variety of best practices in payment operations
   

• Corporate Payments Strategy (CPS) Resource Center - Developed by the Payments Advisory Group as a blueprint to proactively represent corporate interests in the payments industry. The CPS and the CPS Resource Center provide context and direction to payments industry participants and will be a catalyst to help banks and others solve corporate needs.
• Payments Resources by Payment Type - Additional expert content organized by major payment type: Check/Check Image, ACH, Card and Wires
• Payments Advocacy - Current AFP efforts focused on influencing the laws, rules and regulations that impact payments.
  • Comment Letters  
  • AFP Regulatory and Legislative Update Newsletter  
  • Washington Watch Column  
   

• Payments Roundtables - Educational and networking sessions in local cities across the U.S.
• Corporate Payments Strategy (CPS) - An executive summary of the CPS for non-members that do not have access to the more detailed CPS Resource Center.
• Payments Surveys - New or updated surveys published 2-3 times a year
• Payments Newsletter: Published monthly. Registration required for non-members. - Learn more....
  • Archive  
• Payments News Articles - Refreshed daily
• External Payment Resources - Links to other payment resources on the web

• 2010 Electronic Payments Survey
• 2010 BAI Survey Results  
• 2010 Payments Fraud Survey  
• 2009 AFP Wire Remittances Survey  
• 2009 Payments Fraud Survey  
• 2008 Payments Fraud & Control Survey  
• 2007 Electronic Payments Survey  
• 2007 Fraud Payments Survey  
• 2006 Payments Risk Survey  
• 2005 Payments Fraud and Control Survey  
• Interchange Survey
• 2005 Retail/Consumer Payments Survey  

• Board of Governors:
• Boston Payment Systems:
• Chicago Fed Payment Studies:
• Kansas City Fed Payments System Research:
• New York Fed Payment Systems:
• Philadelphia Fed Payment Cards Center:
• Federal Reserve Financial Services  
• NACHA  
• The Clearing House  

• GCTF Recap: Should Treasurers Lobby Regulators Internationally? During the session Global Cash Management & Treasury Structures at last week’s CTC Global Corporate Treasurers Forum, panelist Dennis Sweeney, deputy treasurer at GE Corporate Financial Services, posed the question of whether corporate treasurers and banks should lobby regulators internationally for essential standards.

  May 23, 2012

• CIBC, Rogers Introduce NFC-Enabled Mobile Payments in Canada Hot on the heels of the Canadian Bankers Association's release of mobile payments standards for Canada, CIBC and Rogers Communications announced their intentions to launch a joint mobile payments service. Starting later this year, Canadians will be able to make credit card purchases with their smartphones via NFC technology.

  May 22, 2012

• Campos to Step Down as SWIFT CEO Lazaro Campos informed SWIFT that he intends to leave the organization after a five-year stint as chief executive.

  May 21, 2012

• Making Patient Payments Pay Off Healthcare costs have increased dramatically over the past decade, driving businesses and individuals to find ways to maintain insurance coverage options without breaking the bank.

  May 16, 2012

• Survey: Corporates to Determine Fate of SEPA As the SEPA end date draws closer, European banks have largely determined that their corporate clients will determine the initiative’s success, according to new survey by Clear2Pay and Finextra.

  May 15, 2012