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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
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 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
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
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 27, 2011
Tamara Rutter |
Stocks Cashing in on Mobile Payments Who will be the dominant player in the growing mobile payments arena? |
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. |
| 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
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 |
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
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. |
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
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. |
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. |
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
May 17, 2010
Morgan Housel |
Congress Drops an Axe on the Credit Card Industry Why suppressed interchange fees could kill Visa and MasterCard. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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
November 9, 2011
Navjot Kaur |
No Slowing Down for MasterCard MasterCard posts a good third quarter |
Bank Technology News
May 2010
John Adams |
On Your Chip, Get Set, Pay!! Before the mobile contactless payments race has even kicked off, First Data and Visa have grabbed the wheels of the pace car to move the pack faster. |
The Motley Fool
October 7, 2010
Dan Caplinger |
Merchants Win the Credit Card Wars Expect stores to tell you how to pay. |
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. |
CFO
October 1, 2008
Yasmin Ghahremani |
Cash, Credit, or Cell Phone? Mobile payments may soon change the way Americans buy. |
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
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. |
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? |
Bank Technology News
February 2004 |
By The Numbers Consumer payment associations are targeting the U.S., where high rates of card penetration and low levels of mobile data usage have left mobile proximity payments off merchants' and consumers' radar screens. |
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. |
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. |
Bank Technology News
April 2011
Andrew Johnson |
Apple Delays NFC Apple Inc. boasts that its iPhone "changes everything," but against the expectations of many bankers, it may not be changing payments-at least not this year. |
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. |
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
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. |
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. |
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
February 9, 2007
Selena Maranjian |
Convenient or Costly? New developments in credit cards have a hidden price tag. |
Bank Technology News
March 2011
John Adams |
MasterCard Globetrots To Push Mobile MasterCard is lining up local partners and its own innovation lab to sell contactless transactions. |
U.S. Banker
May 2011
Jeremy Quittner |
Facebook and Google Encroach on Banks' Turf New payment options pose a major business threat, as the giants of the Internet world push their alternatives to cash. |
Bank Technology News
March 2008
John Adams |
Is it Time for Tix by Cell? Will the growth of mobile banking and a broad increase in overall mobile phone functionality make consumers more comfortable with using mobile phones to make small purchases? |
Bank Technology News
January 2007
Glen Fest |
Cards: Opportunities Abound In Crowded Payments Field Although credit and debit card usage accounts for more than half of all in-store purchases, a multi-trillion dollar slice of the payments market remains for the taking. |
Bank Systems & Technology
January 29, 2008
Maria Bruno-Britz |
Evolving Card Business Presents Opportunities and Threats for Banks Rapid advances in technology, the recent IPOs of Visa and MasterCard, an uncertain economy, and shifting consumer behaviors all are converging to create a whirlwind of change -- and opportunity -- in the card space. |
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
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 |
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. |
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. |
National Real Estate Investor
July 1, 2006
David Cardwell |
Electronic Payments Accelerate Cash Flow Adept property managers are encouraging the use of electronic payments and customizing options to meet residents' needs. Electronic payments help close new business faster, accelerate the availability of funds, reduce delinquencies, and enhance security. |
