In this segment from Friday's Where the Money Is, Motley Fool financial analysts Matt Koppenheffer and David Hanson discuss the upcoming Transact 14 conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, covering all things payment technology. Matt will be in attendance at the conference, and will be keeping an eye on several trends, such as all-online banking, the payment businesses of companies such as eBay (NASDAQ:EBAY) through PayPal or Google (NASDAQ:GOOGL)(NASDAQ:GOOG) with its Gmail accounts and customers' ability to attach money to those accounts, the future of credit cards, and what role digital currencies such as BitCoin may have down the road.
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