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Bank Technology News December 2001 Maria Bruno |
Govt. Makes Antitrust Case Ruling For anyone wondering what a world with American Express and Discover bank cards would be like, your chance to find out might soon arrive...  |
The Motley Fool February 26, 2008 Sham Gad |
Visa's Big Deal The upcoming $19 billion IPO of Visa is kind of a big deal. In fact, if all goes as planned, it could be the largest IPO in U.S. history  |
Bank Systems & Technology November 9, 2007 Maria Bruno-Britz |
Visa and American Express Settle Legal Dispute A 2004 anti-trust suit brought against Visa, MasterCard and their member banks has been brought to a close, with Visa agreeing to pay rival American Express in a settlement totaling $2.25 billion.  |
The Motley Fool August 4, 2010 John Keeling |
MasterCard Results Are Mixed. Now What? MasterCard had a mixed bag of earnings news, so is now a time to invest?  |
The Motley Fool August 23, 2010 Dave Mock |
A Big Upgrade for Visa After spending more than a year locked at a mediocre three-star rank, Visa has impressed enough top-performing members of the 165,000-strong Motley Fool CAPS community to climb up to four stars.  |
The Motley Fool May 17, 2010 Morgan Housel |
Congress Drops an Axe on the Credit Card Industry Why suppressed interchange fees could kill Visa and MasterCard.  |
U.S. Banker December 2001 Robert A. Bennett |
'I Didn't Do It' MasterCard and Visa are having a hard time fighting Internet and telephone fraud. The technology is there, but there's little incentive for all parties to cooperate. Above all, MasterCard and Visa are duking it out with each other...  |
Bank Systems & Technology May 5, 2004 Ivan Schneider |
Banks and Associations Adapt To Increased Merchant Muscle Issuers support PIN-based debit networks despite the potential impact on revenues versus signature debit.  |
Bank Technology News November 2007 Anthony Malakian |
Strategic Alliances: Wells Teams With Discover For Merchant Payments Discover faces a fierce battle for merchant payments business from the likes of American Express. Wells Fargo is hungry to expand its merchant payment acceptance options. That makes a strategic alliance between the two firms a no brainer.  |
Bank Systems & Technology February 10, 2004 Cynthia Ramsaran |
Rock, Scissors, Plastic There will be a rise in plastic payments in 2004 because of the availability of more merchants accepting credit, analysts say.  |
The Motley Fool October 2, 2009 Dave Mock |
3 Reasons to Buy Visa Today There are lots, but here are three biggies.  |
BusinessWeek December 5, 2005 Mara Der Hovanesian |
When The Bill Comes Due MasterCard's new IPO investors will have to pay the company's legal fees.  |
U.S. Banker January 2005 Holly Sraeel |
MasterCard. Visa. Amex. Welcome to the Sandbox. Citibank's decision to issue Amex cards to its customers will force other large banks to follow suit -- exactly what MasterCard and Visa have been dreading.  |
U.S. Banker August 2008 Anthony Malakian |
Visa's Online Community Taps Social Network Visa has teamed with Facebook.com to reach out to new customers.  |
The Motley Fool September 10, 2008 Morgan Housel |
Throwdown: Visa vs. MasterCard Both Visa and MasterCard have one thing in common that's few and far between these days: they're both great stocks with fantastic future prospects. but which one is the better investment?  |
Entrepreneur February 2007 Melissa Campanelli |
Pay It Safe Security standards might make you rethink your payment system.  |
CIO August 15, 2002 Jon Surmacz |
MasterCard vs. PayPal Both companies are trying to agree on rules to govern transactions processed through PayPal, and PayPal is still processing MasterCard transactions. It could be in both parties' interests to resolve the conflict.  |
Bank Systems & Technology September 25, 2008 Maria Bruno-Britz |
Google Partnership Key to Visa Mobile Payments Strategy Payments giant will offer m-payments services on Android-enabled mobile phones.  |
BusinessWeek January 12, 2004 Dean Foust |
First Data: The Power Behind The Plastic After its merger with EFS, First Data's ownership of vast electronic-payment networks will provide it with a flow of fees the other rivals to MasterCard and Visa never had.  |
Bank Systems & Technology September 25, 2008 Maria Bruno-Britz |
Visa Unveils Mobile Money Transfer Pilot and New Prepaid Card Options U.S. Bank to help pilot mobile Visa money transfer program; Visa expands ReadyLink prepaid functionality to ATMs.  |
Bank Technology News December 2010 Andrew Johnson |
2010 Was Banking's Year of Mobile; Payments Next The recent Verizon, At&T, and Discover deals, along with a few others, suggests that next year will be the year that mobile payments dominate the headlines in the United States. But which business model will lead the industry is still anyone's guess.  |
The Motley Fool January 19, 2012 Dan Caplinger |
Discover Financial Faces a Tough 2012 Analysts have mixed feelings about Discover. The target price for the stock is only around 10% higher than current levels, and earnings are seen remaining stagnant over the next year or two.  |
Bank Systems & Technology May 4, 2005 Peggy Bresnick Kendler |
Cards Product innovation is key to growth in the card business, but the ability to grow without sacrificing security, speed and reliability is critical. Banks that can provide these things will achieve success.  |
The Motley Fool April 30, 2008 Tom Hutchinson |
MasterCard Dazzles MasterCard reports an absolute blowout quarter in the midst of a miserable economy.  |
Bank Technology News July 2005 Glen Fest |
Data Losses: Cardsystems Takes A Bullet After Breach Visa and American Express bid adieu to the processor, unable to forgive the firm for the compromise of customer data and flouting association rules. Was that fair-and is anyone next in the firing line?  |
Bank Systems & Technology June 23, 2009 Maria Bruno-Britz |
Visa, NeuStar Embark on Mobile Payments Alliance The partnership claims to have solved the revenue problem for all players in the m-payments chain, including banks.  |
U.S. Banker December 2010 Glen Fest |
What Exemption? Many thought leaving out small banks from rate caps was unworkable. With no word yet from card networks on a 2011 plan, the carveout could already be moot.  |
The Motley Fool August 20, 2010 Carl Bagh |
Visa Readies to Take on Rising Competition in Payment Biz The world's foremost payment processing company Visa has joined hands with Bank of America to start a trial of contactless payment system using smartphones.  |
The Motley Fool August 26, 2008 Morgan Housel |
Visa: Still a Buy? So many merchants around the globe accept Visa that nearly every merchant has to accept it, or else customers would quickly revolt.  |
Bank Technology News December 2010 Rebecca Sausner |
The Best and Worst of Bank Tech in 2010 The editor of this publication gives her choices for the best and worst bank tech developments of 2010.  |
Bank Systems & Technology January 31, 2006 Ivan Schneider |
New Faces in Payment Cards In 2006, expect higher-profile changes in the payments space -- and greater incentives for consumers to use cards rather than cash at the point of sale.  |
The Motley Fool October 28, 2009 Morgan Housel |
Not Bad, Visa Visa is proving its ability to withstand this global recession and retrenchment in consumer spending far better than expected.  |
The Motley Fool October 30, 2008 Morgan Housel |
Still Signs of Life at Visa Credit card king Visa reported fourth-quarter earnings yesterday that met analyst expectations, more or less.  |
The Motley Fool August 7, 2007 Emil Lee |
Digging Into Discover President and COO of Discover Financial Services speaks about his company's new independence from Morgan Stanley, and future plans.  |
The Motley Fool March 27, 2008 Tom Hutchinson |
Is Visa Worth the Price? It's a phenomenal company, but its new stock is expensive.  |
The Motley Fool October 12, 2010 Matt Koppenheffer |
Global Payments Shares Plunged: What You Need to Know Shares of payment processor Global Payments slipped more than 10% in intraday trading as investors digested worse-than-expected earnings.  |
Bank Technology News February 2001 David Rountree |
For Retail Payment On The Net, Only Tradition Is Getting Traction Credit cards rule, to be sure, but bankers understand that the Internet is about choice...  |
Bank Systems & Technology September 28, 2005 Maria Bruno-Britz |
Is the End of Cash at Hand? The growing comfort with digital and wireless technologies may be largely responsible for the recent upswing in e-payments. Of course, the trend has not gone unnoticed by the financial services industry.  |
The Motley Fool July 18, 2006 Alex Dumortier |
Discover Learns to Network After its agreement with First Data, Discover will be accepted at small- and medium-sized merchants. This latest initiative looks like a step in the right direction. Investors, take note.  |
Bank Systems & Technology July 5, 2004 Kristi Nelson |
Pumping Up the Purchasing Power More information and integration are needed to grow corporate purchasing card usage.  |
The Motley Fool June 30, 2008 Tom Hutchinson |
AmEx Withdraws Cash From MasterCard American Express wins a settlement with MasterCard for as much as $1.8 billion, in one of the largest antitrust suits ever.  |
Bank Technology News July 2006 Michael Sisk |
Caught Off Card First Data Corp. has embarked on a "concept of one" restructuring that involves selling off Western Union and refocuses its energies on credit card processing.  |
The Motley Fool December 20, 2010 April Taylor |
2 Stocks That May Spring a Leak Visa and MasterCard have benefited mightily from consumers' shift from paper to plastic, garnering fees on each transaction. Will these companies' moats survive 2011?  |
The Motley Fool July 30, 2009 Morgan Housel |
This Is All You've Got, Visa? As consumers pull back, Visa's growth goes up in smoke.  |
The Motley Fool August 2, 2006 Stephen D. Simpson |
MasterCard and the Charging Lawyers The odds are pretty good that you have a MasterCard credit card on you right now. Whether you want to own stock in MasterCard may be a different story, however, with a pair of lawsuits hanging over the company.  |
Bank Systems & Technology July 31, 2009 Maria Bruno-Britz |
U.S. Bancorp Teams With Visa to Offer Financial Supply Chain Solution Syncada has been designed to provide a more efficient means for businesses to connect with one another and manage accounts.  |
Bank Technology News February 2011 Jeremy Quittner |
BofA Tweets a Web Outage Alert. Is that Enough? Bank of America's decision to use Twitter to announce an online banking outage has drawn mixed reviews, ranging from kudos for broadening its communications horizons to questions as to whether the blast was broad enough.  |
The Motley Fool July 22, 2008 Morgan Housel |
Visa vs. Mastercard: Which Should You Buy? Now that investors have a gaggle of credit card providers to choose from, which, if any, are worth their money?  |
The Motley Fool July 31, 2008 Morgan Housel |
No Love for MasterCard Even though MasterCard's second-quarter earnings were actually quite good, investors couldn't look past the one-time, $1.65 billion pre-tax legal expense that nicked results.  |
U.S. Banker October 2001 Mark Bruno |
Non-Existent Danger Visa says it will start pushing one of its newest services just in time for the holiday shopping season: Verified by Visa. It's just one more gimmick designed to make anxiety-ridden consumers feel safer about using their credit cards for Internet purchases...  |