ETA & PCI Host Payments Security Policy Day In Washington, DC

ETA and the PCI Security Standards Council teamed up today in Washington, DC to host a policy event focused on technologies for securing payments. The event, held at Holland & Knight LLP, attracted more than 100 industry stakeholders from across the payments ecosystem, including executives in town for ETA’s fly-in tomorrow. Three panels of experts featured in-depth discussions regarding the industry’s multi-layered approach to protecting consumer data.

Brian Peretti, Director, Office of Critical Infrastructure Protection and Compliance Policy, US Department of the Treasury provided the keynote address. He highlighted the critical role that the payments industry plays in the financial sector, and outlined the ways in which the Department of the Treasury is working with payments companies to protect merchants and consumers.

Other speakers at this event included representatives from ETA, PCI, Visa, MasterCard, Worldpay, Ingenico, TSYS, Paymetrics, Bluefin Payment Systems, ControlScan, and HoneyBaked Ham. The panelists discussed the impending EMV liability shift and its implications for other payments security technologies. The payments industry is working round the clock to make payments safer, faster, and more convenient.

The ETA Executive Payments Fly-In is the latest in ETA’s series of policy events advancing the payments technology industry. Upcoming events include Chip Card 101 on October 1 in Washington, DC.