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Online Help for Newbies and Old Pros

T he Green Sheet is teaming with payments consultancies Martaus & Associates and The Takoma Group to offer the online Payments Learning Center.

This unique new learning center will have a range of courses that support payment systems professionals throughout their careers. Courses will feature fundamentals, for newcomers and seasoned professionals in need of a quick refresher, as well as detailed analyses of technologies and other instruments of change in the payments business.

The course developers - Paul Martaus, President of Martaus & Associates, and Patti Murphy, president of The Takoma Group - are two of the industry's most knowledgeable experts. Combined, Paul and Patti have worked for more than 50 years in the payments arena as bankers, consultants, researchers, commentators, teachers and journalists. Each is a frequent speaker at industry events, and Patti's columns on payments issues are a regular feature of The Green Sheet.

"Keeping up with the changes in this business is an awesome task," Martaus said. "The Payments Learning Center, in addition to being a professional development tool, is intended to help payments professionals keep up with these changes and the consequences for their businesses."

In addition to these two world-class consultants, other top industry experts will be enlisted to develop additional course content in response to demand. The first course to be placed online at the Payments Learning Center is titled, "Evolving ePayment Technologies and Services." The course provides a detailed examination of leading-edge payment technologies.

Courses can be accessed directly at www.paymentlearning.greensheet.com and through links at The Green Sheet Online (www.greensheet.com), Martaus & Associates (www.martausandassociates.com) and the Takoma Group (www.takomagroup.com). A nominal fee will be charged for each course.

Green Sheet subscribers are encouraged to share with us any ideas they may have for additional course offerings at the Payments Learning Center. Please send your course ideas and feedback to Paul Martaus at paul@martaus.com.