of payments experts the private-sector payments industry on the one hand, and the academic, research, and policymaking … second conference was learning more about the numerous consumer payments data sources that are available but which are not … sessions on payment card loyalty programs and the transition from cash to electronic payments were informative and stimulated …

Payment Choice, hosted by the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston's Emerging Payments Research Group (EPRG) on July 25, 2008 …

Consumer payments in the United States gradually have been shifting away from paper checks for the past several years …. Cash use has declined as well, although at a much slower pace. As the number of check payments has decreased, those … payments have been replaced with electronic and card payments. However, the transition from paper to electronic and card …