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Study Group: Check Processing Experts(?)

Council Members in this Study Group: 495

This study group may include experts knowledgeable on commercial banking, retail banking, asset management, mortgages, consumer finance, exchanges, capital markets, transaction processing, credit cards, insurance, and business services.

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Leading Experts in this Study Group

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Howard Bruck, Chief Information Officer, Hudson Valley BankHoward Bruck
Chief Information Officer
Hudson Valley Bank

Howard Bruck is the Chief Information Officer at Hudson Valley Bank, a commercial bank. He is also an Adjunct Professor of Management at Polytechnic University. He has over 25 years of experience in the information technology sector. He specializes in financial services technology, outsourcing, hosting,...

James Butler, C.F.A, Ph.D.
President
Rigley Financial Corporation

James Butler is the Managing Director of Rigley Financial, LLC, and the Senior Partner for Rigley Capital, LLC, an Illinois-based origination and consulting firm specializing in providing advisory services to Municipal, Governmental-Issues, Consumer, Energy, Commercial, and Mortgage industry-related...

Christopher Chicoine
VP, Solutions Delivery Group Mngr
TD Banknorth

Christopher Chicoine is the Vice President and Solutions Delivery Group Manager at TD Banknorth, a banking and financial services company. He has over twenty years of experience in the information technology industry. Prior to TD Banknorth, he was the Director of Information Technology at athenahealth,...

James McMahon, President, JM Bear AdvisorsJames McMahon
President
JM Bear Advisors

Jim McMahon is President of JM Bear Advisors, a consulting firm specializing in all facets of the Consumer, Business & Real Estate lending industry. Mr McMahon has 30 years of senior & executive level expertise & chief lending authority in credit score models, score assisted & traditional judgemental...

Kamala Worthington
FormerVP, Marketing Product Manager
Bank of America Corporation

Kamala Worthington was until May 2006 a Vice President and Marketing Product Manager at Bank of America, for the ATM Channel, where she was responsible for conducting market research and competitive analysis to determine market trends in the ATM industry, predicting forecasts and conducting due diligence,...

Tom Dailey, Board Member, Merchant Esolutions, Inc.Tom Dailey
Board Member
Merchant Esolutions, Inc.

Tom Dailey is a former management committee executive at Discover and senior vice president, head of Discover's merchant network and Discover's bankcard business, which included Mastercard and Visa processing. Following 22 years at the company, he most recently served as an Advisory Director to Discover/Morgan...

Kevin Kramer, Principal, K2 ConsultingKevin Kramer
Principal
K2 Consulting

Kevin Kramer is the Principal of K2 Consulting. He was previously a Senior Executive Vice-President at MBNA America until April 2005, where he was responsible for Database Marketing, Merchant Services, and Recurring Payments Initiatives...

Steve Mott, CEO, BetterbuydesignSteve Mott
CEO
Betterbuydesign

Steve Mott is Chief Executive Officer of BetterBuyDesign, a payments systems consultancy serving clients that range from major banks and processors to technology startups and investment capital/equity firms. Mr. Mott is a 20-year veteran of the electronic payments industry with specialization in online...

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MasterCard removes Amex suit overhang | 06-30-2008
Analysis of: Amex to Get $1.8B in MasterCard Deal, Warns of Credit Woes | www.americanbanker.com
Author: GLG Expert Contributor

While MasterCard arguably will pay American Express too much, the settlement removes a troubling overhang.   It is time for MasterCard and Visa Inc. to focus their energies on fending off a potentially far more damaging threat: the “Credit Card Fair Fee Act of 2008.”

GE chose a less than optimal market in which to unload its US credit card business | 06-27-2008
Author: GLG Expert Contributor

Angst about the consumer credit environment and risk associated with GE Consumer Finance’s near-prime retail credit card portfolio, not surprisingly, have given a number of large US card issuers who otherwise should have been keen to bid, cause for pause. Nonetheless, for the right buyer – most likely...

Chicago Fed Payments Fraud: Perception versus Reality | 06-26-2008
Analysis of: Assessing the landscape of payments fraud | www.chicagofed.org
Author: GLG Expert Contributor

Conference take-aways: (1) All payment systems – paper checks, truncated checks, pin and signature debit cards and credit cards and ACH are subject to fraud. (2)  Fraud prevention systems need to take a holistic enterprise-wide rather than a point solution approach.      ...

There's no Downturn in the Market for Consumer ID Fraud Protective Services | 06-20-2008
Analysis of: ID Protection Startup Prepares Commercial Push | www.darkreading.com
Author: GLG Expert Contributor

This article focuses on one of many startups in the consumer protective services space, as evidence of an "evergreen" market category. Current challenging economic times make investment in this ID Fraud sector a natural, and desperate times could actually bring about increased criminal activity leading...

Hardware & Software Duality | 06-19-2008
Analysis of: HP to Acquire EDS for $13.9 Billion | www.hp.com
Author: Mark Mariotti, CEO, Future Management Holdings Inc

HP is a long time solid provider of computer hardware, and EDS (founded the information technology out-sourcing industry more than 45 years ago) is a longtime provider of system services. The Plan of Merger, dated as of May 13, 2008, by and among EDS, Hewlett-Packard Company and Hawk Merger...

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