--- title: "Payments Archives - Page 2 of 6 - Secure Technology Alliance" language: "en-US" canonical_url: "https://www.securetechalliance.org/tag/payments/page/2/" source_url: "https://www.securetechalliance.org/tag/payments/page/2/" content_type: "text/markdown" --- [Home](https://www.securetechalliance.org/)Payments # Tag: Payments ### Contactless Payments: Issuer Benefits and Considerations Contactless payments provide U.S. merchants and issuers with an opportunity to improve payments security, transaction speeds and the customer experience. With the move to EMV chip technology, the POS infrastructure is also being enabled to support contactless payments – which delivers a host of benefits to merchants, issuers and... ### Contactless Payments: Benefits and Considerations Contactless payments provide U.S. merchants and issuers with an opportunity to improve payments security, transaction speeds and the customer experience. With the move to EMV chip technology, the POS infrastructure is also being enabled to support contactless payments – which delivers a host of benefits to merchants, issuers and their... ### The U.S. Payments Forum (the “Forum”) is a cross-industry body focused on addressing issues that require broad cooperation and coordination across many constituents in the payments industry. This cooperation and coordination is vital to promote the efficient, timely, and effective introduction of EMV chip technology and other new and emerging payments technologies in the United… ### The Secure Technology Alliance developed the EMV Connection web site to assist all industry stakeholders with EMV migration. ### EMVCo Payment Account Reference: A Primer Publication Date: April 2018 Click here to download the white paper. The tokenization process in payment transactions replaces primary account number (PAN) data with a surrogate value.  Use of the surrogate value, or token, provides increased protection against fraud and account data compromise by removing the PAN from potentially vulnerable... ### Trusted Execution Environment 101: A Primer Publication Date: July 2018 Click here to download the white paper. Widespread data breaches have made it very important to harden security measures when sensitive data are being processed and stored.  This is resulting in an evolution of tokenization and enhanced device security mechanisms in personal computing and connected... ### Contactless Payments:  Proposed Implementation Recommendations Publication Date: January 2018 Click here to download the white paper. We live in a rapidly evolving digital world—a world in which consumers are usually connected.  This increased connectivity is altering consumer expectations.  Consumers now want payment to be faster, more secure, and seamless.  Issuers can meet these changing expectations… ### IoT and Payments: Current Market Landscape Publication Date: November 2017 Click here to download the white paper The Internet of Things (IoT) is growing rapidly—8.4 billion connected “things” are forecast to be in use in 2017. That number is expected to increase to 20.4 billion in 2020, and starting in 2017, the IoT market is… ### EMV Payment Tokenization: What’s New The Secure Technology Alliance and EMVCo hosted a webinar, “EMV® Payment Tokenization: What’s New?” on Thursday, November 16, 2017. The webinar provided an overview from EMVCo of the role EMV payment tokenization plays and discussed what’s new in the latest technical framework version. The webinar topics included: Brief overview of… ### Implementation Considerations for Contactless Payment-Enabled Wearables with Secure Elements Publication Date: July 2020 Version 2.0 Click here to download the white paper According to American Express, ‘An emerging "golden age" of payment methods is giving individuals and businesses the convenience to pay in more ways than ever, wherever they may be.’  A key component of... [ ** ](#)