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].