EBT Industry Council Sets Date for 1999 National Conference on Electronic Benefits Transfer.HERNDON, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 15, 1998--The EBT EBT See: Earnings Before Taxes Industry Council of the Electronic Funds Transfer See EFT. (application, communications) electronic funds transfer - (EFT, EFTS, - system) Transfer of money initiated through electronic terminal, automated teller machine, computer, telephone, or magnetic tape. Association Tuesday announced that its second annual conference on the future of electronic benefits transfer systems will be held on Nov. 7-9, 1999 in Washington, D.C. More than 250 delegates attended the 1998 EBT conference, dubbed "EBT -- The Next Generations," said John Pfeuffer, vice president of Citicorp Services Inc., and chairman of the EBT Industry Council. "This year's conference was an outstanding success," said H. Kurt Helwig, executive director of the Electronic Funds Transfer Association. "Our EBT Industry Council looks forward to taking EBT -- The Next Generation to an even higher level in 1999." EBT -- The Next Generation brings government and private industry together to analyze how the latest transaction technologies and applications can be used to deliver government serviced to citizens in the future. "Surveys showed that our delegates were nearly unanimous in saying that the 1998 conference delivered the EBT information they were looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. ," said Pfeuffer, "and that the conference was worth continuing in 1999." Delegates praised the amount of information found in the conference's 25 sessions, as well as the quality of the presentations, he added. Delegates to the conference came from 30 states, as well as Puerto Rico Puerto Rico (pwār`tō rē`kō), island (2005 est. pop. 3,917,000), 3,508 sq mi (9,086 sq km), West Indies, c.1,000 mi (1,610 km) SE of Miami, Fla. , Guam, Quebec, the United Kingdom, and Italy, according to Helwig. Over one dozen companies provided corporate support for the conference. About the Electronic Funds Transfer Association The Electronic Funds Transfer Association is the nation's leading inter-industry trade association dedicated to advanced payment systems and commerce. Now in its third decade, its members include Transaction Network Services Inc., NCR (NCR Corporation, Dayton, OH, www.ncr.com) A technology company specializing in financial terminal transactions, retail systems and data warehousing. Until the late 1990s, NCR was heavily invested in the hardware side of the industry, known worldwide as a major manufacturer of computers , and virtually all shared ATM networks in the U.S., including HONOR, PULSE EFT Association, and Electronic Payment Services Electronic Payment Services (Chinese: 易辦事), commonly known as EPS, is the largest electronic payment system in Hong Kong, Macau and Shenzhen starting from 1985. The service is provided by EPS Company (Hong Kong) Limited. Inc. It can be reached at its web site, www.efta.org. About the EBT Industry Council The EBT Industry Council is the longest-standing trade group dealing with the business and policy issues of electronic benefits transfer systems. Its broad base of membership include equipment manufacturers such as VeriFone Inc., and NCR; EBT transaction processors Buypass and Concord EFS EFS Encrypted File System (Microsoft Windows 2000) EFS Event Free Survival (survival rates in clinical trials) EFS Evangeliska Fosterlandsstiftelsen (Sweden) ; systems integrators Lockheed Martin and EDS (Electronic Data Systems, Plano, TX, www.eds.com) Founded in 1962 by H. Ross Perot (independent candidate for the President of the U.S. in 1992), EDS is the largest outsourcing and data processing services organization in the country. ; and consulting companies Benton International Inc., Burger, Carroll & Associates Inc., Chaddsford Planning Associates, and Maximus. |
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