Event Zero Director Ramin Marzbani will participate in a panel session on "Innovations in the payments market" at the Cards & Payments Australiasa 2009 conference in Sydney, March 23-27 2009.

The cards and payments landscape is undergoing rapid and fundamental change. Margins on card and merchant products are declining, with emerging technologies, regulatory reform and compliance measures underscoring some of the pressures affecting the payments industry. At the same time, the requirement for real time transaction processing, including verfication and assurance, continues to require innovative solutions to ensure maximum transactional integrity and performance, while supporting the evolution of next generation cards and payments products and services.