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 (EBAY 0.42%) through PayPal or Google (GOOGL 0.93%)(GOOG 0.88%) 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.
Will This Technology Industry Follow the Facebook Model?
By Matt Koppenheffer and David Hanson – Apr 5, 2014 at 10:00AM
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Matt is the head of the Coverage Team for The Motely Fool's premium products. Previously, he's been . Matt is a heavy user of AI tools and is working on harnessing them to help Fool members. Previously, Matt was GM of Motley Fool Ascent, led The Motley Fool Deutschland, has been an investor on various Fool services, and co-hosted the podcast "Where the Money Is". He also co-authored the book The Astonishing Collapse of MF Global. Matt started his career in San Francisco as a technology-focused investment banker and also worked at a $15 billion private equity company. When he's thinking about how to make Fools smarter, happier, and richer, you can usually find Matt running trails or making a mess in the kitchen. He's a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, but is a lifelong fan of Penn State football.