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The Motley Fool April 30, 2009 Morgan Housel |
Visa Has a Case of the Slows Consumers have slammed their wallets shut, and that could spell trouble for card processors.  |
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 February 8, 2010 Morgan Housel |
Better Investment: Visa or MasterCard? Visa and MasterCard both reported full-year 2009 results last week. So let's weigh 'em in, unpack the numbers, and declare a winner.  |
The Motley Fool June 10, 2009 Morgan Housel |
Sell Visa. Now. Meeting future lofty expectations will likely result in less-than-awesome returns for Visa.  |
The Motley Fool August 4, 2010 Morgan Housel |
Are Visa and MasterCard Really Under Attack? I wouldn't bet on it. These moats are still safe.  |
The Motley Fool July 31, 2008 Morgan Housel |
Visa Powers Ahead ... But Is It Cheap? Visa is doing fantastic, no doubt about it. But how much longer can cash-strapped consumers keep charging up their credit cards, and is Visa a good investment today?  |
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 November 9, 2011 Navjot Kaur |
No Slowing Down for MasterCard MasterCard posts a good third quarter  |
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 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 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 November 28, 2008 Morgan Housel |
Ho Ho No for Visa and MasterCard Another victim of consumers' gloomy mood will be credit card processors Visa and MasterCard. Not only will they be stung by the inevitable drop-off in consumer spending, but what little spending is left might go to a relic form of payment that some may have forgotten even exists ... cash!  |
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 May 17, 2010 Morgan Housel |
Congress Drops an Axe on the Credit Card Industry Why suppressed interchange fees could kill Visa and MasterCard.  |
The Motley Fool February 5, 2009 Morgan Housel |
Visa Defies Logic It has been a while since there has been anything good to say about a finance company, but now there is: Visa had an incredible quarter.  |
The Motley Fool June 28, 2010 |
An Investing Alternative to Visa and MasterCard The the investing thesis for Heartland Payment Systems is discussed.  |
The Motley Fool October 2, 2009 Dave Mock |
3 Reasons to Buy Visa Today There are lots, but here are three biggies.  |
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  |
The Motley Fool April 29, 2008 Tom Hutchinson |
Visa Beats the Street and Sells Down Visa posted great numbers in a miserable economy and beat Wall Street's expectations. Naturally, the stock fell.  |
Bank Systems & Technology November 30, 2004 Scott Thompson |
One Question For: Scott Thompson, Inovant How does Visa complete the complex updates of its global payment network without any system interruptions?  |
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.  |
InternetNews October 12, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas |
Visa Upgrades B2B Payment System VisaNet revamp enables more online self-service for financial institutions.  |
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?  |
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 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.  |
The Motley Fool October 24, 2008 Morgan Housel |
Is It Time to Buy Visa? Let's take a look at an incredible company with tremendous potential that's been battered nearly 50% since May: Visa.  |
The Motley Fool July 13, 2011 Neha Chamaria |
How the Brand-New Debit Fee Cap Will Affect Investors Visa gives a lower fiscal 2012 outlook after the Federal Reserve's debit card fee cap announcement.  |
The Motley Fool August 4, 2011 Sean Williams |
MasterCard Rings Up Another Outstanding Quarter New clients, an international boom, and deflation all put big profits on the plastic purveyor's plate.  |
Entrepreneur July 2007 Jennifer Pellet |
New Way to Pay Looking for a way to offer customers greater payment convenience? A mobile platform recently introduced by Visa is paving the way for merchants to accept payments from cell phones - though the technology has yet to reach the States.  |
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.  |
BusinessWeek August 4, 2010 Eichenbaum & Collins |
Smartphones May Soon Replace Credit Cards AT&T and Verizon Wireless are readying a mobile payment system that could render plastic obsolete.  |
BusinessWeek October 15, 2009 Lloyd Constantine |
Let's End the Debit Card Fee-for-All The Fed needs to start exercising oversight over debit-card fees.  |
The Motley Fool May 26, 2005 Steven Mallas |
It's All About the Blink Credit cards go high-tech using RFID technology with the introduction of the contactless payment.  |
The Motley Fool September 6, 2006 Tom Taulli |
VeriFone Is Very Fine Yet again, VeriFone had a blowout quarter. And the company is even upping guidance. Investors, take note.  |
The Motley Fool May 26, 2011 Dan Caplinger |
Why Would You Give Away Free Money? Banks are looking at services that would do what PayPal does: let people send money to each other using email addresses or smartphones rather than forcing them to use checks or cash.  |
The Motley Fool June 9, 2011 Aimee Duffy |
This Credit Card Stock Is King of the Castle Visa's moat keeps competitors at bay.  |
The Motley Fool August 12, 2009 Morgan Housel |
Good News for Consumers, Bad News for Banks Consumer credit surged from 2004 to 2008. It made a lot of people artificially rich. Now that bubble is quickly deflating -- in some cases, faster than it inflated.  |
| Knowledge@Wharton |
New Payment Methods Give Old-fashioned Checks and Credit Cards a Run for Their Money Emerging technologies are currently gaining momentum while paper check usage is in decline, according to a new study by the Federal Reserve...  |
The Motley Fool April 13, 2009 Morgan Housel |
More Reasons to Worry About Credit Card Companies First it was the banks; now consumers are the ones ditching credit cards.  |
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.  |
Bank Systems & Technology August 6, 2009 Nathan Conz |
U.S. Bank Pilots Visa payWave on Unembossed Debit Cards U.S. Bank has launched a pilot program to instantly issue unembossed debit cards with Visa payWave technology.  |
The Motley Fool November 4, 2009 Morgan Housel |
MasterCard Is Stabilizing Global consumers aren't dead yet.  |
The Motley Fool March 18, 2009 Morgan Housel |
Get Ready for Credit Card Hell Credit card companies aren't just sitting back and absorbing losses, but frantically slashing existing credit lines in a last-ditch effort to take the risk off their balance sheets.  |
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 October 2, 2006 Tom Taulli |
Global Payments: Looking Strong Management continues to strike deals to grow its payment processing and money transfer business. All in all, based on its track record, it's probably a strategy that should continue to work for shareholders.  |
The Motley Fool September 14, 2010 Rich Smith |
This Just In: Visa and Mastercard Downgrade? At Wall Street investment house Sanford Bernstein the analysts just downgraded Visa and MasterCard on fears that more government meddling in the markets will crimp profits in the banking sector.  |
The Motley Fool November 4, 2008 Morgan Housel |
Still Going Strong at MasterCard Shares of credit card runner-up MasterCard surged after reporting better-than-expected third-quarter earnings fueled by stellar growth.  |
The Motley Fool April 30, 2008 Tom Hutchinson |
MasterCard Dazzles MasterCard reports an absolute blowout quarter in the midst of a miserable economy.  |
The Motley Fool August 10, 2010 Selena Maranjian |
Will Smartphones Kill Credit Cards? The billion plastic payment cards we carry may soon be obsolete, their functions incorporated into cell phones.  |