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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.
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The Motley Fool October 2, 2009 Dave Mock	3 Reasons to Buy Visa Today There are lots, but here are three biggies.
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The Motley Fool November 4, 2008 Morgan Housel	Still Going Strong at MasterCard Shares of credit card runner-up MasterCard surged after reporting better-than-expected third-quarter earnings fueled by stellar growth.
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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?
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.
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 June 11, 2007 Selena Maranjian	Will That Be Credit or Debit? Think twice before assuming you're using the right card.
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The Motley Fool November 4, 2009 Morgan Housel	MasterCard Is Stabilizing Global consumers aren't dead yet.
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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 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?
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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
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The Motley Fool July 7, 2010 Kris Eddy	A Shift Away From Paying With Plastic Smartphone software could bump the swiping of credit and debit cards to the side, taking business away from card companies and banks, as well as hardware and security providers.
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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.
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