Consumer Finance Research Group

Inaugural New England Meeting April 30, 2008

New England Meeting October 7, 2008

Conferences

	Consumer Behavior and Payment Choice: Summer Workshop July 25, 2008 Following the previous two conferences, this one-day summer workshop presents research on the consumer side of the payments market. In contrast to the previous conferences, this is an academic-style workshop to provide an informal environment to promote extensive interaction and exchange of ideas.
	Consumer Behavior and Payment Choice Second Annual Research Conference July 25-27, 2006 Building on the Bank’s inaugural effort to understand the demand or consumer side of the retail payments market,  this two-day conference brought together academic and private sector researchers, and payments system participants to further explore consumer payment issues such as data developments and analysis, emerging payment technologies, public policies, and other topics.
	Consumer Behavior and Payment Choice: How and Why Do Consumers Choose Their Payment Methods? October 27-28, 2005 This conference brought together economic researchers and payments system participants to explore what we know and don’t know about how consumers choose among payment methods and about the implications of their decisions for saving, consumption, and portfolio allocation. Held at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, October 27-28, 2005.

Events

2007 EPRG Contactless Forum May 21, 2007
The Emerging Payments Research Group hosted a forum that brought together invited industry experts, academics, and Federal Reserve System payments professionals to explore consumer and merchant payment choices related to contactless (RFID) technology, examine security risks and vulnerabilities with RFID-enabled payments, and finally look at future adoption—the barriers and the opportunities with contactless smart cards. A roundtable discussion encouraged open dialogue among participants.

Presentations

2008

Mobile Banking Services: Overview of the Mobile Banking Landscape
Results of FRB Boston/NEACH Survey of Financial Institutions in New England
Presentation by Marianne Crowe, Emerging Payments Research Group, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, and Breffni McGuire, NEACH, to financial institutions at the NEACH Payments Strategy Services Forum on October 2, 2008.

Emerging Payments — The Changing Landscape
Presentation by Marianne Crowe, Vice President, Emerging Payments Research Group/Business Development, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, to the Maine Association of Community Banks on April 15, 2008 and to the New Hampshire Community Bankers Association on April 17, 2008.

The Outlook for Contactless Payments
Presentation by Nasreen Quibria, Senior Payments Industry Consultant, Emerging Payments Research Group
RFID Security Workshop at John's Hopkins University, January 22-23, 2008

2007

Online Payment Service Providers -- Risky Business
Marianne Crowe, Vice President, Emerging Payments Research Group/Business Development
BAI Combating Payments & Check Fraud Conference, October 23, 2007

Contactless Smart Cards
Nasreen Quibria, Senior Payments Industry Consultant, Emerging Payments Research Group
I-95 Corridor Coalition 2007 EPS Summit, September 18, 2007

Payments in the US: The Evolution Continues
Jim Cunha, Senior Vice President, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
TAWPI 2007 Forums & Expo, August 12-15, 2007

The Role of Payment Characteristics in Consumer Payment Choice
Scott Schuh, Senior Economist and Policy Advisor, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
NACHA CEBP Meeting, May 22, 2007

Changing Payments Landscape: A Federal Reserve Bank Perspective
Marianne Crowe, Vice President, Emerging Payments Research Group/Business Development
2007 TMANE Annual Conference, May 9, 2007

Understanding Emerging Payments - Moving Towards a Cashless Society?
Nasreen Quibria, Payments Industry Specialist, Emerging Payments Research Group
Regional Cash Services Advisory Group Meeting, May 8, 2007

The Big, Bad World of Online Payments Service Providers
Marianne Crowe, Vice President, Emerging Payments Research Group
Claudia Swendseid, Senior Vice President, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
NACHA Payments 2007, April 17, 2007

 

2006

Understanding Emerging Payments – What’s in Your Customers’ Wallets?
Marianne Crowe, Assistant Vice President, Emerging Payments Research Group
Cash Advisory Council, September 19, 2006

The New Retail Payment System: Implications for Credit Unions
Sally Green, Executive Vice President
EasCorp Partnership Conference, April 10, 2006

 

2005

Emerging Payments
Jim Cunha, Vice President, Electronic Payments and Treasury Services
Regional Community & Bankers Conference, June 7, 2005

Embracing Change in the Retail Payments System
Paul M. Connolly, First Vice President and Chief Operating Officer
Massachusetts Association of Certified Public Accountants, April 28, 2005