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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?   |
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
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
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
October 2, 2009
Dave Mock |
3 Reasons to Buy Visa Today There are lots, but here are three biggies. |
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. |
| 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
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 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
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
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
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
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! |
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
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, 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. |
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. |
Entrepreneur
July 2006
Amanda C. Kooser |
Pay It Forward New payment technologies make spending safer and easier. |
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
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
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
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? |
The Motley Fool
March 28, 2007
Nathan Parmelee |
E-Money Around the World In the move toward a cashless society, the U.S. is lagging behind other parts of the world. |
The Motley Fool
March 27, 2008
Tom Hutchinson |
Is Visa Worth the Price? It's a phenomenal company, but its new stock is expensive. |
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
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! |
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
March 30, 2004
Cynthia Ramsaran |
MasterCard Cashes In On Recurring Payments Merchants follow the card company's lead to improve their bottom lines by cutting processing costs and increasing customer retention with automatic payments. |
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 3, 2010
Anders Bylund |
Credit Card Issuers Beware: The End Is Nigh! Whether Visa or the telecom consortium reaches the finish line first, or someone else bypasses the whole field out of the blue, the time for phone-based payments is coming soon |
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 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. |
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 Technology News
December 2010
John Adams |
Canadian Banks Take Debit Contactless Believing consumers are ready to abandon cash for small purchases, Scotiabank and RBC will be the first banks to put InteracFlash chips onto their debit cards in Canada. |
The Motley Fool
June 28, 2010 |
An Investing Alternative to Visa and MasterCard The the investing thesis for Heartland Payment Systems is discussed. |
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
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
June 10, 2010
Matt Gunn |
Citi Brings PayPass to Cell Phones Expanding its contactless payment offerings, New York-based Citibank is now offering its customers the Citi payment tag, a MasterCard PayPass-enabled sticker that can be placed on the back of cell phones. |
The Motley Fool
May 24, 2006
Tom Taulli |
VeriFone: Doubling Down on Emerging Markets The electronic payment platform provider's market in North America is mature, but now VeriFone's leveraging its infrastructure into emerging markets. Investors, take note. |
InternetNews
February 25, 2005
Susan Kuchinskas |
Speed the Wireless Payment RFID-enabled 'proximity' payments could go wide in 2005, but it's up to merchants to make the move. |
The Motley Fool
December 17, 2010
Gabriel et al. |
Carriers to Build Mobile Phone Payment Network Will we soon be swiping our cell phones in the check-out line? |
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. |
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
November 4, 2009
Morgan Housel |
MasterCard Is Stabilizing Global consumers aren't dead yet. |
Bank Systems & Technology
October 30, 2007
Richard Winston |
Mobile Wallet Will Take Time to Mature In U.S. Contactless payments are a transitional technology on the way to the anticipated wallet phone. |
CRM
April 2013
Kelly Liyakasa |
Adoption Problems Plague Digital Wallets Retailers must overcome security, awareness, and integration issues. |
The Motley Fool
February 9, 2007
Selena Maranjian |
Convenient or Costly? New developments in credit cards have a hidden price tag. |
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. |
PHONE+
May 19, 2009
Khali Henderson |
Cashing In on Payment Processing It may seem counterintuitive for telecom agents to add payment processing during a retailing slump, but the goal is to provide multiple payment options for nearly every business in the country. |
