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Bank Technology News
September 2010
John Adams |
U.S. Bank Brings Big Tools to Small Biz Information and peer analysis won't eliminate business worries, but financial firms cultivating small business customers believe online access to actionable performance and spending data will ease the minds of recession-weary clients.   |
CRM
December 1, 2006
Colin Beasty |
Business Problem: Companies lack the ability to draw insight and intelligence from the vast pools of customer data they've collected. Tech solution: BI reporting and tracking tools. Cognos 8 Business Intelligence... SAS Enterprise BI Server... Vanguard Business Analytics... |
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
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
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
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
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
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. |
AskMen.com
Terence Channon |
Top 10: Worst Credit Cards Avoid these 10 worst credit cards when trying to get approved for plastic, and you'll keep yourself out of the red with plenty of green. |
Bank Technology News
July 2004
Jeremy Quittner |
A Battle's Breaking Out Over Phishing Prevention As phishing and spoofing scams continue to rise on the Web, and identity theft becomes a primary concern for financial services institutions, some credit card issuers have begun experimenting with new card technology to combat the problem. |
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 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? |
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. |
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. |
InternetNews
March 28, 2007
Nicholas Carlson |
Visa: Credit Goes to Mobile Payments Visa's CEO called mobile devices the most promising payment platform in the world today. |
Insurance & Technology
May 1, 2008
Anthony O'Donnell |
NFS Standardizes Reporting on WebFOCUS Nationwide Financial Services has chosen to standardize the reporting function on Information Builders' WebFOCUS solution, expanding its existing implementation. |
Insurance & Technology
July 12, 2006
Anthony O'Donnell |
Smart Companies New approaches to business intelligence are providing meaningful information for decision support -- not only to senior executives, but to managers at many levels of the enterprise, and with less intervention from IT. |
Inc.
April 2007
Jennifer Gill |
Cracking the Code Credit card processing bills are a jumble. Here's how to read yours. |
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. |
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. |
Entrepreneur
February 2007
Melissa Campanelli |
Pay It Safe Security standards might make you rethink your payment system. |
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. |
Fast Company
November 2000
John Ellis |
Digital Matters I have many cards in my wallet. What I would like is a "Uni-Card": one piece of plastic with a smart chip in the middle that would house all of my data, securely, in one place. The big players hesitate to do it because of the up-front cost, but it can be done... |
InternetNews
April 6, 2006
David Needle |
Microsoft Sets SQL Server Free Microsoft unveiled its plans to release a free, mobile version of its SQL Server database. SQL Server Everywhere Edition is scheduled for release in the second half of this year. |
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. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
October 7, 2010
Dan Caplinger |
Merchants Win the Credit Card Wars Expect stores to tell you how to pay. |
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
June 8, 2007
Selena Maranjian |
Paying With Plastic Abroad Be smart when you use your credit card globally. |
The Motley Fool
November 20, 2009
Chris Jones |
This Moneymaker Is Dumping Its Deadweight Global Payments finally says goodbye to its money transfer business. |
InternetNews
October 9, 2008
Richard Adhikari |
Microsoft Bundling For BI Microsoft has announced new Business Intelligence technologies designed to help knowledge workers use business intelligence software with more smarts and analytical tools. |
The Motley Fool
July 18, 2006
Alex Dumortier |
Discover Learns to Network After its agreement with First Data, Discover will be accepted at small- and medium-sized merchants. This latest initiative looks like a step in the right direction. Investors, take note. |
Bank Systems & Technology
November 4, 2003
Katherine Burger |
Channel Strategies On a Massive Scale As EVP, technology solutions, for Inovant, the information technology and processing services subsidiary of Visa International, Scott Thompson is focused on critical issues such as transaction volume, speed and reliability, security, and support of newer business initiatives. |
Entrepreneur
January 2005
C.J. Prince |
Fantastic Plastic Paying recurring bills automatically by credit card is catching on big with small businesses. |
Entrepreneur
September 2007
James Park |
Fee Relief? With every swipe, credit card companies are demanding more from merchants. |
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 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. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
February 12, 2009
Selena Maranjian |
Another Credit Squeeze? If you're invested in any credit card lenders, or are considering doing so, dig into exactly how they make their money. I suspect that you'll find a few shocking but pleasant surprises. |
InternetNews
November 1, 2005
Clint Boulton |
Much Ado About Microsoft's New SQL Server Microsoft Research had a big hand in the development of SQL Server 2005, which will go live next Monday. |
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. |
Bank Systems & Technology
May 25, 2006
Maria Bruno-Britz |
BankAmericard Resurrection: Just Posturing or Real Business? Bank of America announced in late April that it is entertaining plans for creating a new credit card brand and processing network. According to industry insiders, the move would significantly alter the card/processing space. |
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
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 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
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. |
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. |
InternetNews
September 29, 2004
Clint Boulton |
Biz Intel Expanded in Microsoft's SQL Server Microsoft adds Reporting Services software packs for Exchange and CRM environments and updates its schedule. |
U.S. Banker
December 2001
Robert A. Bennett |
'I Didn't Do It' MasterCard and Visa are having a hard time fighting Internet and telephone fraud. The technology is there, but there's little incentive for all parties to cooperate. Above all, MasterCard and Visa are duking it out with each other... |
PC Magazine
January 25, 2007
Kathy Yakal |
QuickBooks Simple Start 2007 Can't face (and don't need) a complex bookkeeping program for your one-man show? Intuit's Simple Start 2007 has what you need. |
