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Aaron McPherson
Practice Director, Payments and Security
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Aaron McPherson is a practice director with IDC Financial Insights, responsible for the strategic direction of research in payments and security.
Industry Expertise
Mr. McPherson writes and consults with clients on a wide array of subjects, including the future development of payment systems along with security and fraud. Mr. McPherson is particularly well versed in the areas of enterprise payments, financial supply chain management, check image exchange, and information security.
Mr. McPherson contributes to the FinTech blogs in the IDC Financial Insights Community (http://idc-insights-community.com/financial). His Twitter handle is aaronmcpherson.
Background
Previously, Mr. McPherson was a principal in the Consumer Financial Services Group at American Management Systems (AMS), a leading technology strategy and implementation firm. While there, Mr. McPherson developed implementation strategies for CRM initiatives at a top-ten North American bank as well as a leading online bank. Before joining AMS, Mr. McPherson served as a financial analyst in the Executive Office of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Education and Industry Affiliations
Mr. McPherson has been quoted in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Investors Business Daily, CFO Magazine, American Banker, Bank Technology News, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Houston Chronicle, FutureBanker, Card Marketing, and The Journal of Commerce. He has also spoken before the Federal Reserve Bank on the subject of electronic bill presentment and payment, and at industry conferences on the subjects of business-to-business payments, smart cards, and alternative payments.
Mr. McPherson holds a master of business administration degree from the MIT Sloan School of Management with a concentration in the strategic use of information technology, and a Bachelors degree in political science, also from MIT.
Research Authored by Aaron McPherson
MasterCard Opens Its Payments Technology
Aaron McPherson
June, 2010 - Doc # lcUS22377410
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On May 25, 2010, MasterCard announced that it would be following PayPal in opening up its payments technologies to developers via open APIs (Application Programming Interfaces). Left unclear, however,...
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Person-to-Person Payments: Not What You Think
Aaron McPherson
April, 2010 - Doc # lcUS22280710
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Lately, I have been receiving more and more inquiries about the potential of person-to-person (P2P) mobile and online payments (defined as general purpose funds transfers from one consumer to another)...
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 Business Strategy: Results from the 2009 Consumer Payments Survey
Aaron McPherson
March, 2010 - Doc # FIN222513
Market Overview
This IDC Financial Insights report discusses a broad-based, nationally representative telephone survey of 1,008 U.S. consumers conducted in October 2009 that contains both good news and bad news for U...
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Digital Checks: Are They Worth the Trouble?
Aaron McPherson
January, 2010 - Doc # lcUS22155810
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On December 8, 2009, the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago released a Policy Discussion Paper entitled, "Digital Checks as Electronic Payment Orders." It presents a formal proposal for an idea that has...
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Worldwide Financial Services 2010 Top 10 Predictions: Where to Next?
Aaron McPherson, Marc DeCastro, Dana Wiklund, David Potterton, Jeanne Capachin, Karen Massey, Sean O'Dowd, Michael Araneta, Rachel Hunt, Trevor LaFleche, Roberto Gutierrez, Mauro Peres, Robert Burbach, Peter Farley, Matthew Clay, Li-May Chew, Shawn Yip
January, 2010 - Doc # FIN221471
Top 10 Predictions
This IDC Financial Insights report presents our top 10 predictions for global financial services. As we started 2009, there seemed to be no end in sight to the issues facing financial services. As we ...
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Vendor Assessment: Industry Short List for Payments Fraud Management Software — The Move to Enterprise Fraud Management
Aaron McPherson
December, 2009 - Doc # FIN221307
Market Overview
This IDC Financial Insights report provides a detailed assessment and comparison of the payments fraud solutions provided by six leading vendors: ACI Worldwide, Actimize, FICO, Fidelity Information Se...
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Securing the Merchant Point of Sale
Aaron McPherson
October, 2009 - Doc # lcUS22039809
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Since Heartland Payment Systems disclosed a massive security breach on January 20, 2009, and subsequently announced they would be rolling out their own end-to-end encryption (E2EE) solution in partner...
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Technology Selection: U.S. Check Transaction 2009–2013 Forecast and Analysis
Aaron McPherson
October, 2009 - Doc # FIN220159
Market Overview
This Financial Insights report provides a five-year forecast of the number and dollar value of checks written in the United States, segmented into consumer checks written at the point of sale (POS); o...
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Methods and Practices: SWIFT and Corporate Payment Initiation
Jeanne Capachin, Aaron McPherson
June, 2009 - Doc # FIN218776
Market Overview
This Financial Insights report provides an overview of SWIFT for Corporates and the implications for corporates and their banking partners. The financial crisis has dramatically increased the pressure...
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Credit Card Usage Takes a Dive; Will It Recover?
Aaron McPherson
May, 2009 - Doc # lcUS21823709
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This week, both Visa and MasterCard released their earnings for the first quarter of 2009, and the figures on US credit card volume are quite frankly stunning. Visa, reporting volumes for the fourth q...
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