Panelist, “Industry Roundtable on the Developing Payments and Financing Landscape," 13th National Forum on Balancing Innovation with Consumer Protections in Emerging Payment Systems

ACI’s 13th National Forum on Balancing Innovation With Consumer Protections in Emerging Payment Systems brings together an unparalleled faculty of in-house counsel and compliance professionals, senior executives from industry-leading companies, high-level regulatory and enforcement officials, and top outside counsel specializing in emerging payment systems who will provide you with the insights and tools necessary to navigate the legal, compliance, technical, and business hurdles arising from new payment products and technologies.

DWT partner Andy Lorentz took part in the “Industry Roundtable on the Developing Payments and Financing Landscape” panel September. Topics included:

• Points, loyalist and rewards programs
• How the key mobile payments companies are structuring their business models
• Impact of mobile wallets/payments
• Assessing the relationship between banks and alternative payment providers
• Banking Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) and the Gig Economy
• How blockchain technology will impact the payments industry in 2016 and beyond
• Overlaps between the payments industry and the nascent sharing economy
• Regulatory and compliance issues arising from the sharing economy
• The safety and legality of peer-to-peer payment (P2P) schemes
• Crowdfunding issues