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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 March 31, 2011 Dan Caplinger |
Never Pay This Fee Again Foreign transaction fees on credit cards are starting to disappear.  |
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 October 2, 2009 Dave Mock |
3 Reasons to Buy Visa Today There are lots, but here are three biggies.  |
The Motley Fool June 21, 2006 Dan Caplinger |
Travel Smart: Know the Fees When planning your trip abroad, be aware of the fees you'll get charged for your foreign-currency transactions.  |
The Motley Fool August 18, 2011 Dan Caplinger |
Don't Fall for This Bank Bait-and-Switch Charging for debit cards makes no sense. As a customer, you owe it to yourself to make these higher fees blow up in big banks' faces.  |
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 June 30, 2011 Jim Royal |
Finally, a Victory Over Wall Street Retailers won a victory against the big banks, sorta. Earlier this week, the Federal Reserve slashed the fees charged by banks for debit card transactions.  |
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 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.  |
The Motley Fool October 3, 2008 Selena Maranjian |
The Financial Crisis and Credit Cards Get ready to feel some pain.  |
The Motley Fool May 24, 2010 Dan Caplinger |
Visa and MasterCard's Loss Won't Be Your Gain When new laws decrease fees, you'd think most people would end up better off. Yet the much-ballyhooed new regulation on credit card interchange fees may end up doing ordinary consumers more harm than good.  |
The Motley Fool August 10, 2010 Selena Maranjian |
Credit Cards' Crunch Is Retailers' Relief How limits on card-swipe fees could affect your investments.  |
The Motley Fool October 19, 2007 Dan Caplinger |
Reap Rewards With Debit Cards Banks that have historically kept the purse strings tight on debit card rewards have started to loosen up a bit.  |
The Motley Fool November 9, 2011 Navjot Kaur |
No Slowing Down for MasterCard MasterCard posts a good third quarter  |
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.  |
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 March 29, 2011 Dan Caplinger |
Say Goodbye to These Tightwads Banks eliminate debit-card rewards. What are they thinking?  |
The Motley Fool August 2, 2010 Carl Bagh |
Looming Threat for Visa, MasterCard From AT&T, Verizon Now your smartphone really can do everything -- including paying the bills!  |
The Motley Fool April 5, 2011 Dan Caplinger |
This Company Wants to Win Your Wallet The way you pay is changing. This company wants to profit from it.  |
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 December 8, 2010 Dan Caplinger |
Don't Let This Desperate Bank Move Snare You Banks are trying too hard to replace lost profits.  |
The Motley Fool June 15, 2011 Dan Caplinger |
This Card Company Won't Rip You Off American Express enters the prepaid market with a low-fee card.  |
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 February 2, 2011 Selena Maranjian |
8 Million Credit Card Customers Vanish As more folks put down the plastic, will banks suffer?  |
The Motley Fool May 24, 2007 Dan Caplinger |
Getting Rich on Credit Paying with plastic has simplified our lives -- but it's also made credit card companies very wealthy, and you're paying the price.  |
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.  |
The Motley Fool March 11, 2011 Dan Caplinger |
Make Lower Debit Card Fees Pay Off for You Banks are up in arms about lower fees, but there will be some winners.  |
The Motley Fool November 17, 2008 Dayana Yochim |
The Credit Card Fee That Will Fleece You Although credit cards are certainly convenient, they can add as much as 5% to the purchase price of everything you buy overseas.  |
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 May 11, 2006 Selena Maranjian |
Credit Cards Get Even Easier Paying by credit card is, in many places, becoming a faster way to pay. Investors, remember that credit cards are big business. Many banks sporting high dividends and are likely to keep making money off credit cards in the years ahead.  |
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 December 1, 2008 Morgan Housel |
The Death of Credit Cards There's no way around it -- the key to a stabilized economy is to get people to spend less and save more. Unfortunately, that'll mean a reduction in the standard of living for those reliant on plastic.  |
The Motley Fool September 2, 2006 Elizabeth Brokamp |
"Debit or Credit?" Choosing the right method of payment at the right time could save you big.  |
The Motley Fool June 8, 2007 Selena Maranjian |
Paying With Plastic Abroad Be smart when you use your credit card globally.  |
Bank Systems & Technology January 1, 2007 Phil Britt |
Consumers Favor Cards for Payments in Increasing Numbers This past year saw a significant increase in consumers' use of debit cards and prepaid cards, while credit card usage remained strong. The trend is expected to continue, insiders say, potentially creating new revenue streams for banks.  |
The Motley Fool December 12, 2007 Selena Maranjian |
Credit Cards' Travel Troubles Don't get caught without currency in Europe. Your trip can quickly become a bummer if the credit card you brought with you keeps getting rejected.  |
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 October 3, 2011 Morgan House |
Bank of America and the Power of Unintended Consequences No one's better off; everyone's upset. Someone is to blame for the new $5-a-month fee, but it's not Bank of America.  |
The Motley Fool April 30, 2008 Elizabeth Brokamp |
"Debit or Credit?" The cashier is waiting for your answer. Which is the better choice? Debit or credit?  |
Entrepreneur September 2007 James Park |
Fee Relief? With every swipe, credit card companies are demanding more from merchants.  |
The Motley Fool October 22, 2011 Molly McCluskey |
Should You Be Using Your Credit Card More? What the new debit-card fees mean and how to avoid them.  |
The Motley Fool June 11, 2007 Selena Maranjian |
Will That Be Credit or Debit? Think twice before assuming you're using the right card.  |
The Motley Fool June 30, 2010 Morgan Housel |
Look What Congress Just Did to the Debit Card Market In Congress' well-intentioned plan to spare merchants and consumers from the burden of interchange, the end result will likely be a simple shuffling of costs, unfortunately to the consumer.  |
The Motley Fool December 22, 2011 Dan Caplinger |
2011 Didn't Leave Home Without American Express AmEx isn't letting the financial world pass it by. That's a big part of why AmEx did well in 2011 and why it could keep building on its success in years to come.  |
Bank Technology News May 2005 Holly Sraeel |
Nonbank Payments: Are Banks Green? Yes And No. If you take cash and payments out of the equation, who needs banks?  |
BusinessWeek May 26, 2011 Karen Weise |
Banks' New Money Machine: Prepaid Cards Cards are replacing checks for payroll and government benefits  |
The Motley Fool November 2, 2011 John Grgurich |
What Investors Need to Know About Bank of America's Debit-Card Fee Reversal We may not always like banks, but they've been around in one form or another for thousands of years and aren't going anywhere anytime soon.  |
The Motley Fool March 25, 2011 Morgan Housel |
Why Banks Are Suddenly Charging So Much for Checking Big banks from Bank of America to JPMorgan Chase to Citigroup have either raised, or are proposing to raise, fees on checking accounts.  |
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.  |