Each 100-page issue features authoritative best practice articles and case studies by leading payments experts. A selection of those scheduled for publication in Volume 2 includes:

Payments strategy

• How to win buy-in from senior management for your payments business
  Thomas H. Wiles, Global Head of Interactive Product Management and Marketing, American Express Bank
• The changing payments landscape – why banks need to rethink their business models and approach to client relationships
  Peter Mathias; Per Fremlin; Joseph King, Matthias Co
• How will new technologies open new delivery channels for payments? What is new in the current market?
  John Sculley, Venture Partner; Diane McGowan, RHO Capital Partners
• The impact of SEPA on revenue and cost savings – how small and large banks can both benefit
  Tom Buschman, Chairman & CEO, TWIST
• Meeting the challenges and opportunities of conducting business globally when defining your payments strategy
  René Pelegero, Senior Director of Industry Relations, Strategy, and Compliance, PayPal
• A review of current factors contributing to competition in the payments industry
  Frank D’Angelo, Group President, Metavante Payments Solutions
• How is the global expansion of ACH driving cross-regional consolidation? What is its impact on costs, certainty and timing of payments?
  Laura L. Orcutt, VP – ACH Product Manager, Wells Fargo & Co.
• Case study – enabling global payment capabilities for new channels
  Marcus Treacher, Head of e-Commerce, Global Transaction Banking, HSBC
• Comparing models of payments innovation and how banks and non-banks can learn from each other
  Margaret Weichert, eCommerce/ATM Business Development and Planning Executive, Bank of America

E-invoicing

• Using bank-procurement organization partnerships to educate vendors on e-payment migration and gain buy-in
  Hubert Jolly, Managing Director, Citigroup Global Transaction Services
• The CBI 2: New Italian e-invoicing corporate banking services targeted to optimise the financial value chain
  Liliana Fratini Passi, Secretary, Italian Interbank Corporate Banking Association
• Case study – how an accounts payable department increased its vendor e-payments percentage and reduced its active vendor file
  Rowena Delgado, AVP, LaSalle Bank

Mobile payments

• Mobile payments – how to run the business and successful bank-mobile operator partnership models
  Niki Manby, SVP, Product Innovations, Visa USA
• Measures necessary to secure mobile payments and how this channel will change how banks interact with customers
  Tim Sherwin, EVP, Cardinal Commerce

Financial supply chain management

• Unlocking value trapped in your balance sheet through working capital management
  Robert Smid, Director of Corporate Restructuring, Ernst & Young
• Towards integration of the corporate-financial supply chain
  Alec Nacamuli, Global Payments Executive, IBM
• Measuring the benefits of financial supply chain management based on open standards
  William Faulkner, Manager for Global Cash Management, PepsiCo

Regulator views

• The role of payments systems in achieving economic stability
  Marc Hollanders, Special Adviser on Financial Stability and Market Infrastructure,, Bank for International Settlements
• Non-banks in payments services – measuring the impact on competition, open access and revenues
  Chryssa Papathanassiou, Senior Oversight Expert, Directorate General Payment Systems and Market Infrastructure, European Central Bank

Risk management

• A strategic risk management framework for managing payments operations and regulatory compliance
  David Robertson, Partner, Treasury Strategies
• Mitigating cross-channel payment risk
  Claudia Swendseid, SVP, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis; Michele Braun, Federal Reserve Bank of New York; Leslie Mitchell, Director, Network Risk Policy, NACHA

Market reviews

• The Japanese payments landscape and its future
  Takashi Kimori, General Manager, Transaction Services Division, The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ
• Current global retail payment business trends – a review
  Deborah Baxley, Director, IBM
• Payment systems in India – current challenges and opportunities
  Sonjoy Chaterjee, Managing Director & CEO, ICICI BANK UK
• What does it take for community banks to succeed in the business banking space for payments?
  Christine Barry, Research Director, Aite Group

Cheque processing

• How will payments electronification and convergence change the payments business model? How do you retain competitive advantage?
  Rustin I. Carpenter, Chief Strategy and Business Development Officer, Viewpointe; Ward H. Gailey, SVP, Director of Payments Strategy, SunTrust Banks
• Understanding key cheque processing regulations and their impact on your payments business model
  Howard Forman, Senior Vice President, Wachovia Bank
• How can the ACH network be simplified to compete with Check 21?
  David L. Peterson, Executive Vice President, Goldleaf Technologies
• Electronic cheque processing solutions – choosing the right option for retail payments processing
  Brian Mooney, President, TeleCheck International

Cash management

• Cash management services – what services are new in the current market and what do they offer?
  Jacob Jegher, Senior Analyst, Celent
• Using e-checks to reduce credit interchange fees – case study of Carnegie Mellon University
  Linda Anderson, Director of Enrollment Services, Carnegie Mellon University; Michelle Palombo, VP, Mellon Working Capital Solutions

Payments operations and services

• What are the types of transactions in the current market, which have standards and which don’t?
  Gottfried Leibbrandt, Director of Strategy and Development, SWIFT
• AML and counter-terrorist finance – how can the payments industry collaborate in domestic and international payments?
  Masayuki Tagai, Chief Manager, Planning Department, Transaction Services Division, The Bank Of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ
• How payment factories improve liquidity management through centralized control and visibility
  Hans Cobben, Chief Operating Officer, AvantGard Payments