Gray Taylor

Executive Director, Conexxus

Taylor grew up in the convenience store industry. In the family business of 87 stores, Gray gained experience in all phases of convenience store and chain retail operations. Taylor has been involved on a variety of projects, including heading global product management for three of the world's largest retail petroleum equipment and systems suppliers and Vice President of Research & Technology for the National Association of Convenience Stores (NACS). He managed product portfolios that included payment platforms for EMV migration markets from Malaysia to Canada, as well as mobile/RFID payments initiatives. Gray also established NACS' card payments program and currently serves over 1,500 stores, doing 100m transactions annually. Taylor is currently consulting with NACS (www.nacsonline.com) on card payment policy and serves as Executive Director for Conexxus (www.conexxus.org), a Washington-based non-profit focused on interoperability, card payment policy and data security issues.

First Party Fraud: EMV and the New Frontier

Presented by Bill Sweeney , Gray Taylor • August 6, 2015

The promise of the introduction of EMV into the U.S. is that it will significantly reduce third party fraud and card-not-present fraud. But fraud is like energy - it doesn't get created or destroyed, it simply is transformed. We therefore know from experience that thieves and fraudsters will not simply give up in the...

Preparing For The Ripple Effects Of EMV and The Future Of Payment Card Security

Presented by Paul E. Caldwell, Jr. , Shirley Inscoe , David Pollino , Gray Taylor • July 10, 2015

EMV Here We Come. Now that the U.S. has finally embraced secure-in-person transactions with EMV, we'll examine how the transition and the rollout will affect the rate of card-not-present (CNP) fraud and other online transactions. Join our panelists as we discuss such topics as how fraudsters will exploit the CNP...

Preparing For The Ripple Effects Of EMV and The Future Of Payment Card Security

Presented by Tim Barnett , Rick Ricker , Gray Taylor • December 17, 2014

Part 1 - EMV Here We Come If you squeeze a balloon in one place, it will expand in another. When we secure in-person transactions with EMV, the fraudsters will begin testing other channels of entry, and one of the least secure portals is that of card-not-present (CNP), online transactions. Many other regions have...