Special Interest Groups / Birds of a Feather Sessions
Special Interest Groups
The U.S. Payments Forum has two special interest groups (SIGs), one for merchants and one for issuers. SIGs meet at all Forum in-person meetings and discuss topics and issues relevant to SIG participants. Examples of topics discussed in SIG sessions have been:
- Cardholder education and communications best practices
- EMV implementation best practices
- Contactless EMV payments implementation best practices
- Transaction data quality
- EMV migration planning best practices
- Issuer and third-party wallets
- Merchant acceptance of mobile payments
- Fraud mitigation approaches
Current SIG leads are:
- Issuer SIG: Keri Crane, Jack Henry™
- Merchant SIG: Joe Vasterling, Best Buy
Birds of a Feather Sessions
In addition to SIG meetings, “birds of a feather” sessions are also held at Forum meetings to discuss topics or provide education specific to a technology or an industry stakeholder group. Past sessions have covered topics relevant to:
- Tokenization implementation
- Payment Account Reference (PAR)
- Secure Remote Commerce (SRC)
- E2E/P2PE Implementation
- Unattended EMV implementations
- Chargeback best practices
- Transaction time optimization
If you have questions or would like information about the Working Committees or Special Interest Groups, please contact Devon Rohrer at [email protected].