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    Regulation of the Debit Card Industry:
    What’s Happened and What’s Next

     Program

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    8:30-9:00

    Registration & Continental Breakfast

    9:00-9:15

    Introduction by Karen Webster, CEO, Market Platform Dynamics

    9:15-10:15

    The Durbin Amendment: The First Two Years

     

    What have we learned including the extent to which the regulation accomplished its goals, whether there were unintended consequences, and how the lessons of the last two years instruct on how the Fed should consider revising the rules?

    Moderator:
    Karen Webster

    Karen Webster, CEO, Market Platform Dynamics

    Panelists

     Margaret Weichert

    Mallory Duncan,
    SVP & General Counsel
    ,
    NRF

     Margaret Weichert

    David Evans,
    Chairman,

    Global Economics Group

     Margaret Weichert

    Doug Kantor,
    Partner,
    Steptoe and Johnson

         
    Alex Miller

    Margaret Weichert,
    National Lead Payments,
    EY Advisory

       
         

    10:15-10:30

    Coffee Break

    10:30-11:30

    Routing Transactions

     

    Can the industry accomplish what Judge Leon says it must? At what cost? For what purpose and with what if any unintended consequences?

    Moderator:
     Margaret Weichert

    David Evans, Chairman, Market Platform Dynamics

    Panelists

    Thomas Brown

    Thomas Brown,
    Partner, Litigation Department,

    Paul Hastings

    Gloria Colgan

    Gloria Colgan,
    Managing Director,
    Market Platform Dynamics

    Reed Luhtanen

    Reed Luhtanen,
    Sr. Director Payments Strategy,
    Walmart

         

    11:30-1:00

    Reinventing the Business Model

     

    Rather than regulating interchange fee levels, has the time come to completely rethink the business model of payments? Is it possible to come up with a better model that satisfies merchants, consumers, banks, and networks?

    Moderator:
    Karen Webster

    Karen Webster,CEO, Market Platform Dynamics

    Panelists

    tim Attinger

    Tim Attinger,
    Strategy, Corporate Development & Digital Innovation,
    Blackhawk Network

    Paul Purcell

    Paul Purcell,
    Co-Founder & Partner,
    Continental Advisors

         

    1:00-2:00

    Seated Lunch

    2:00-3:15

    Constitutional and Administrative Law Issues

     

    How much deference should the courts give to the Fed? Does the answer differ for price caps versus routing, and was the regulation constitutional?

    Moderator:
     Margaret Weichert

    David Evans, Chairman, Market Platform Dynamics

    Panelists

    David Balto

    David Balto,
    Founder,
    The Law Offices of David Balto

     Margaret Weichert

    Richard Epstein,
    Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Law,

    NYU

    Bob Litan

    Bob Litan,
    Director of Research,
    Bloomberg Government

         
    Alex Miller

    Alex Miller,
    Senior Associate General Counsel,
    Visa

       
         

    3:15-3:30

    Coffee Break

    3:30-4:30

    The Regulation of Interchange Fees

     

    What have we learned in the last decade, from economic theory and the results of interchange fee regulation on whether interchange fees should be regulated and how?

    Moderator:
    Scott Schuh

    Scott Schuh, Director & Economist-Consumer Payments Research, Boston Federal Reserve Bank

    Panelists

    Bob Chakravorti

    Bob Chakravorti,
    Manging Director & Chief Economist,
    The Clearing House

    David Balto

    David Balto,
    Founder,

    The Law Offices of David Balto

     Margaret Weichert

    David Evans,
    Chairman,
    Global Economics Group

         
    Todd Zywicki

    Todd Zywicki,
    George Mason University Foundation Professor of Law,
    George Mason University Law School

     
         

     

    DURBIN EVENT PARKING:
    Parking fees to be paid by the attendee

    The Willard Hotel
    1401 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
    Valet Only
    $31

    Quik Park
    1301 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
    Self Park/Limited Availability
    $31

    The JW Marriott Hotel
    1333 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
    Valet only
    $47.56

    Colonial Parking
    607 14th Street
    Self Park/Limited Availability
    $20

     
     

    REGISTRATION FEES

    For more information about the event, or how your company can become a sponsor, please contact Pamela Bittner at  pbittner@pymnts.com.