--- title: "Payments Archives - Page 3 of 6 - Secure Technology Alliance" language: "en-US" canonical_url: "https://www.securetechalliance.org/tag/payments/page/3/" source_url: "https://www.securetechalliance.org/tag/payments/page/3/" content_type: "text/markdown" --- [Home](https://www.securetechalliance.org/)Payments # Tag: Payments ### Blockchain and Smart Card Technology Publication Date: March 2017 Click here to download the white paper. Implementations of blockchain-based applications are growing rapidly: over $1 billion has been invested in implementations since 2009, with 60 percent of that funding occurring since the beginning of 2015. While blockchain can create a faster, secure platform for various… ### Multimodal Payments Convergence – Part One: Emerging Models and Use Cases Publication Date: March 2017 Click here to download the white paper. Multimodal payments convergence – the integration of payment services for any type of transportation – is rapidly gaining popularity in the U.S. and abroad due to its ability to make paying for travel… ### Contactless Payments in the U.S.: Guides for Merchants and Issuers Publication Date: January 2017 Click here to download the merchant guide infographic Click here to download the issuer guide infographic Contactless payments have become one of the hottest ways to pay globally with adoption in countries such as the U.K., Canada and Australia growing every… ### Contactless EMV Payments: Issuer Opportunities Webinar 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 can also be enabled to support contactless payments – which delivers a host of benefits to merchants, issuers and… ### EMV Tokenization Webinar Tokenization – the process of substituting valuable data with a token made up of random alphanumeric characters – has the potential to be a payments security game-changer for its ability to protect sensitive account data for in-store and online transactions. Issuers, acquirers, processors, merchants and service providers can find out all about… ### Contactless EMV Payments: Merchant Opportunities Webinar 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 can also be enabled to support contactless payments – which delivers a host of benefits to merchants, issuers and... ### Contactless EMV Payments: Benefits for Consumers, Merchants and Issuers Publication Date: June 2016 Click here to download the white paper. Click here to listen to the “Contactless EMV Payments: Merchant Opportunities” webinar recording. Click here to listen to the “Contactless EMV Payments: Issuer Opportunities” webinar recording. Click here to view issuer and merchant guides to… ### Reference Enterprise Architecture for Transit Open Payment System Publication Date:  March 2016 Click here to download the white paper. This Smart Card Alliance Transportation Council white paper describes a framework for a reference enterprise architecture for open payment in the public transportation space.  The framework provides a model for implementing a seamless fare payment system… ### Healthcare Identity Authentication and Payments Convergence: A Vision for the Healthcare Industry Publication Date: February 2016 Click here to download the white paper. The overall goal of a convergence vision for the healthcare industry is to leverage available technology components to add healthcare identity authentication applications to the existing payments infrastructure.  The Smart Card Alliance… ### EMV and NFC: Complementary Technologies Enabling Secure Contactless Payments Publication Date: November 2015 Click here to download the white paper. As the U.S. migration to EMV chip payments continues, industry participants are thinking about preparing to process payments made using EMV contact chip cards, EMV contactless chip cards, mobile Near Field Communication (NFC) devices, or… [ ** ](#)