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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?   |
| 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... |
U.S. Banker
December 2010
Glen Fest |
What Exemption? Many thought leaving out small banks from rate caps was unworkable. With no word yet from card networks on a 2011 plan, the carveout could already be moot. |
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
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. |
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? |
Fast Company
David Lumb |
Square Goes After Branded Payments With $Cashtags Square is opening up its Square Cash quick-payment service, previously used only for exchanging money between individuals, to, well, almost anyone. |
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. |
U.S. Banker
March 2011 |
Back Porch Select quotes from the world of financial services: J. Craig Shearman... Andrew Cecere... Sheila Bair... Chris Mutascio... Carol Sirou... Ralph Babb... Ben Bernanke... President Obama... Oliver Ireland... |
Bank Systems & Technology
March 18, 2009
Maria Bruno-Britz |
Banks Need a United Front to Succeed in Payments in the New Economy A panel of industry insiders at the SWIFT Operations Forum Americas agreed that collaboration among banks was key to mitigating risk and dealing with the new reality in the payments business. |
Fast Company
Austin Carr |
Why Jack Dorsey Killed The Square Credit Card Despite buzz about the potential of a Square credit card, other company sources indicate the project was recently killed. |
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
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? |
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. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
October 22, 2008
Alex Dumortier |
US Bancorp's Double Opportunity Strong banks can take market share in a crisis and US Bancorp appears to be doing just that. |
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. |
U.S. Banker
August 2010
Alan Kline |
A Misguided Swipe at Fees Critics of regulatory reform might say that many of its provisions don't go far enough in reining in banks or protecting consumers. As is, this is one that goes way too far. |
Entrepreneur
September 2007
James Park |
Fee Relief? With every swipe, credit card companies are demanding more from merchants. |
HBS Working Knowledge
June 22, 2009
Roger Thompson |
"Too Big To Fail": Reining In Large Financial Firms The federal government should slap tough new regulations on all firms that pose "systemic risk" - the risk that a failure of one institution could wreak havoc across the entire financial system. |
BusinessWeek
June 18, 2009
Avinash D. Persaud |
How to Save the Financial System Regulators Redistributing risk, rather than trying to eliminate it, is the key to strengthening the world's banks. |
Bank Systems & Technology
May 4, 2005
Peggy Bresnick Kendler |
Cards Product innovation is key to growth in the card business, but the ability to grow without sacrificing security, speed and reliability is critical. Banks that can provide these things will achieve success. |
BusinessWeek
October 29, 2009
Brian Burnsed |
Interchange Fees Make Strange Bedfellows Retailers want the fees reduced -- and they're enlisting consumers as allies. |
The Motley Fool
November 20, 2009
Chris Jones |
This Moneymaker Is Dumping Its Deadweight Global Payments finally says goodbye to its money transfer business. |
Bank Systems & Technology
May 17, 2010
Penny Crosman |
MasterCard Resists Senate's Merchant Fee Cut Card group says Durbin amendment to financial reform bill will lead to higher payment card costs and less choice for consumers. |
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. |
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. |
Bank Systems & Technology
March 29, 2006
Ivan Schneider |
Former FTC Chair Defends Card Industry in House Testimony Merchants claim they seek transparency and competition in interchange rates. |
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 Systems & Technology
September 28, 2005
Maria Bruno-Britz |
Is the End of Cash at Hand? The growing comfort with digital and wireless technologies may be largely responsible for the recent upswing in e-payments. Of course, the trend has not gone unnoticed by the financial services industry. |
Bank Director
1st Quarter 2011
Jack Milligan |
In the Eye of the Storm Former Comptroller of the Currency John C. Dugan speaks candidly about the financial crisis of 2008, the landmark Dodd-Frank Act and the need for minimum loan underwriting standards for the banking industry. |
U.S. Banker
June 2011
Glen Fest |
Fraud Fight to Take Hit? Many banks subject to the Durbin amendment are convinced debit interchange cuts will make free checking or rewards programs impossible to support. |
CFO
April 1, 2011
Vincent Ryan |
The Big Fail Despite the reach of Dodd-Frank, the "too-big-to-fail" bank dilemma lives on. |
Fast Company
September 2014
Austin Carr |
Back To Square One The coming months for Square will be pivotal. As it burns through cash, the company must create new sources of revenue to justify its high valuation; in the process, it will try to prove that it can create a hugely profitable business as well as a transformative one. |
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
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. |
Finance & Development
March 1, 2002
Christine M. Cumming |
September 11 and the U.S. Payment System What lessons can we draw from September 11 to help us safeguard the financial system against possible future disasters? |
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 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. |
BusinessWeek
June 24, 2010
Schmidt & O'Connor |
How Russell Simmons Out-Lobbied Big Banks The hip-hop superstar also sells debit cards -- and won a fee exemption for his UniRush card. |
The Motley Fool
February 25, 2009
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Throw This Stock Away As a credit card marketer, MasterCard simply sits back and collects its share of fees from financial institutions and transaction processing, and has been riding high, but those days may be over now. Is it time to dump MasterCard? |
The Motley Fool
October 7, 2010
Dan Caplinger |
Merchants Win the Credit Card Wars Expect stores to tell you how to pay. |
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? |
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. |
U.S. Banker
December 2009
Kevin Mellyn |
Payments: The Lever of Bank Profitability A better understanding of the importance of payments to a bank's overall health can help bankers manage customers behavior for greater long-term profit. |
The Motley Fool
January 2, 2008
Morgan Housel |
Stand Down, Bernanke and Paulson The question is: How bad will the credit crisis still get, and who -- if anyone -- can put the credit market back on its feet? |
The Motley Fool
August 7, 2007
Emil Lee |
Digging Into Discover President and COO of Discover Financial Services speaks about his company's new independence from Morgan Stanley, and future plans. |
U.S. Banker
September 2007
John Adams |
Payments: U.S. Targeted by RBS In e-Payments Business Royal Bank of Scotland is a huge payments player in Europe, and it expects its global multi-payments expertise will help it win online business accounts in the United States. It has a good head start. |
CFO
October 1, 2008
Yasmin Ghahremani |
Cash, Credit, or Cell Phone? Mobile payments may soon change the way Americans buy. |
