Dennis Simmons

CEO, SWACHA

Simmons is president and CEO of SWACHA, one of the largest regional payments associations in the country. A frequent invited speaker and recognized expert on payments system issues, he is a member of the board of directors of the National Automated Clearing House Association, the immediate past chair and a current member of NACHA's Government Relations Committee, past chair of NACHA's Electronic Check Council, past co-chair of NACHA's Risk Management Advisory Group and the immediate past chair of the Payments Executives Leadership Forum. He was also a founding member of the board of directors of the Secure Remote Payment Council. In addition to his service at SWACHA, Simmons has over 20 years experience as the senior operations officer of several Dallas area banks. He holds a bachelor's degree in business administration from Oklahoma State University.

The Future Of Payment Security: Where Do We Go From Here And Who Is Liable When We Get There?

Presented by Joseph Burton , Kate Larson , Dennis Simmons , Paul Yanowitch • November 6, 2014

Retail breaches are endemic in the U.S. primarily due to the lack of effective, in-person payment card security. As the rest of the world has embraced EMV, perhaps there is an opportunity for the U.S. to leapfrog even that significant level of security with technologies such as tokenization (as employed in the...