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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 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 August 27, 2011 Tamara Rutter |
Stocks Cashing in on Mobile Payments Who will be the dominant player in the growing mobile payments arena?  |
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 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 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 November 16, 2010 Carl Bagh |
AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile Building Mobile Payment Network These wireless carriers want to make mobile wallet a reality.  |
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 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 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 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.  |
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.  |
CRM February 2012 Leonard Klie |
Consumers Want NFC-Enabled Mobile Wallets An analyst firm predicts that mobile shopping will create a multi billion-dollar industry for credit card companies, online retailers, and mobile operators.  |
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 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.  |
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 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.  |
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 September 2010 Rebecca Sausner |
Joint Venture Aims to Break NFC Logjam Analysts are evenly divided as to whether the yet-to-be-named joint venture will be a revolution in mobile NFC payments in the U.S., or fall flat in the face of too many competing interests and too little demand.  |
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 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.  |
Bank Technology News June 2006 Glen Fest |
Contactless Payments: Visa Wins Faceoff For E-wallets The firm hopes a pilot program at hockey and basketball games in Atlanta will seed the further development of e-wallet initiatives. It's a market estimated at $24 billion.  |
The Motley Fool October 2, 2009 Dave Mock |
3 Reasons to Buy Visa Today There are lots, but here are three biggies.  |
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...  |
InternetNews March 15, 2011 |
Google to Test NFC-Based Mobile Wallet? This summer Google is going to begin testing a mobile payment service based on Near-Field-Communications technology, according to a report.  |
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 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 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.  |
The Motley Fool November 4, 2009 Morgan Housel |
MasterCard Is Stabilizing Global consumers aren't dead yet.  |
Bank Technology News January 2011 Shane Kite |
Discover Battles Rivals, Skeptics Discover Financial Services' execution of its long-expected "mobile wallet" will define its role in mobile commerce, a future where consumers make contactless payments with their cell phones and receive wireless deals as they enter stores.  |
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 June 10, 2009 Morgan Housel |
Sell Visa. Now. Meeting future lofty expectations will likely result in less-than-awesome returns for Visa.  |
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.  |
The Motley Fool October 4, 2011 Dan Caplinger |
Has Visa Become the Perfect Stock? For now, Visa has everything it needs to succeed.  |
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.  |
The Motley Fool November 22, 2011 Dan Caplinger |
Has American Express Become the Perfect Stock? Finding companies that have all the right stuff can produce winners. Unfortunately for AmEx, it appears that the credit card crisis may not be entirely over.  |
Bank Technology News July 2011 |
The Real Mobile-Payment Risk Mobile payment providers, especially telecom network providers, need to work on security and education, and prove they're putting the right safeguards in place.  |
The Motley Fool October 15, 2008 Morgan Housel |
Discover Finds It Finally Pays to Discover The credit-card dark horse scores a windfall.  |
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 November 14, 2011 Evan Niu |
NFC: Coming to a Laptop Near You Intel and MasterCard team up to bring NFC payments to laptops.  |
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 January 10, 2007 Rich Smith |
Nokia Rings Up Sales Visa and Nokia announced a partnership to turn the latter's cell phones into bulky versions of the former's credit cards. Aside from the wow factor, is this a good idea, or even helpful? Investors, take note.  |
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.  |
Bank Technology News May 2011 John Adams |
NFC Championship Still Eludes Gartner says the market for NFC-enabled handsets should expand past $240 billion in the U.S. by 2014, up from its current level of about $32 billion.  |
BusinessWeek November 18, 2010 Galante & Eichenbaum |
Credit Card Companies Woo Programmers To compete online and in mobile, Visa, MasterCard, and American Express need independent software.  |
CIO February 1, 2007 Michael Fitzgerald |
All Charged Up MasterCard gets a payoff through a flexible approach to IT-enabled product development.  |
The Motley Fool October 14, 2004 David FitzMaurice |
Battling for Profits Why American Express and Discover will make more money competing for customers.  |
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 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.  |
Bank Technology News May 2009 Steve Bills |
Which Comes First, Stickers or The Phones? Card companies are betting that if they stimulate consumer demand for mobile payments, it will spur the phone networks and manufacturers to move faster on improving the technology.  |