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- Why You Should Use a Credit Card for Airplane Tickets
- If you routinely charge plane tickets to a debit card, stop. The New York Times explains why you should always use a credit card for your flight purchases: Under the federal Fair Credit Billing Act, a credit card company is required to return your money for a service not...
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- Airlines Expanding Payment Options
- Airlines are always looking for ways to cut costs. Distribution costs have been on the chopping block for years, but it's been only relatively recently that credit card fees have begun to move on to center stage. Credit cards are easily the most convenient way to pay...
- Blog posts 2008-04-02
- Handling Online Payments
- If your business sells its products or services online, it goes without saying that your online payment system must work flawlessly. If not, your credibility will vanish in a heartbeat. Your system must be easy to use and unfailingly secure. Consumers won't tolerate a long, cumbersome purchasing process, and they...
- Articles 2007-10-16
- Coke Machines Go Cashless with MasterCard
- Today MasterCard Worldwide and USA Technologies Inc. announced plans to install cashless payment terminals in 7,500 Coca-Cola vending machines within 8 markets (Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Denver, Las Vegas, Miami, New York and Seattle). Customers will be able to use traditional credit cards as well as MasterCard's PayPass. Thacher Worthen, Coca-Cola's...
- Blog posts 2007-08-07
- GE Capital acquires Europe's largest store credit card operator. (General Electric Capital Corp. buys Burton Group Financial Services of Europe)
- GE Capital acquires Europe's largest store credit card operator STAMFORD UPI -- General Electric Capital Corp. has acquired Burton Group Financial Services, the largest store credit card operator in Europe, for $329 million. The acquisition willGE Capital acquires Europe's largest store credit...
- Research articles 1990-07-23
- Advance Auto Parts Cops to Credit Card Theft
- From retail tech blog StoreFrontBackTalk: The latest retailer to report credit card data theft, Advance Auto Parts, admits that stolen info dating back three to seven years was not encrypted, violating basic security practices. An Advance Auto Parts spokeswoman told blogger Evan Schuman that the majority of...
- Blog posts 2008-04-15
- There's Profit Hidden in Those "Free Grocery" Promotions
- Last month, I said it was smart when Cincinnati-based Kroger placed broad terms on its bid to pick up some of the economic stimulus money that's showing up in shoppers' hands this week. While Sears/Kmart offered a 10 percent bonus only if you handed them your whole stimulus check, Kroger...
- Blog posts 2008-05-08
- Credit Card Issuers Kicked Around on Capitol Hill
- The Antitrust Task Force of the House Judiciary Committee held hearings this week on legislation that sheds a little light on the interchange and transaction fees merchants pay to accept credit cards -- and the underlying cost of our national obsession with plastic. The Credit Card Fair...
- Blog posts 2008-05-16
- Guys Driving Around Stole 41 Million Credit Card Numbers
- If you're like me, you are not exactly breathing a sigh of relief at yesterday's news that the 11 people charged with stealing 41 million credit card numbers from major retailers did so by driving around with a laptop looking for wireless connections. It was just that easy. by Lisa...
- Blog posts 2008-08-06
- ADS to Blackstone: Goodbye ... And Where's My $170 Mil?
- Anyone who's ever been through a bad breakup has got to give credit to Alliance Data Systems. The Dallas-based credit card transaction processor ended its $6.4 billion agreement to sell itself to affiliates of Blackstone Group. And it added this message: "It's not me, it's you." To...
- Blog posts 2008-04-21
- Credit Card Ghosts Haunt GE and MasterCard
- Two titans of plastic are being bit on the backside by charge cards of yesteryear. First, MasterCard Worldwide agreed yesterday to pay $1.8 to rival American Express. The cash is part of a settlement of claims that Mastercard (along with Visa, which agreed to a $2.1 billion payment...
- Blog posts 2008-06-26
- Airlines Expanding Payment Options
- Airlines are always looking for ways to cut costs. Distribution costs have been on the chopping block for years, but it's been only relatively recently that credit card fees have begun to move on to center stage. Credit cards are easily the most convenient way to pay...
- Blog posts 2008-04-02
- Gone Phishing | BTalk Australia
- Online crime continues to rise, presenting problems for consumers and businesses alike. In this edition of BTalk Australia Phil Dobbie talks to James Turner from IBRS about phishing, credit card fraud and other online scams. What else is worrying IT managers? James says hanging on to...
- Blog posts 2008-06-26
- Credit Cards Ready for Reform? Some Lawmakers Think So
- While most of Washington’s attention is on mopping up the home mortgage mess, federal lawmakers are also launching another heavy-duty cleaning job -- reforming the credit card industry. As you’d expect, the bank and credit card issuers, such as Visa and MasterCard, aren’t happy about this attention...
- Blog posts 2008-09-10
- Capital One Financial Corporation Q3 2008 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer Session Operator Operator Instructions Your first question comes from Craig Maurer - CLSA. Craig Maurer - CLSA A quick question on the U.K. You know, if you go back a number of years, the discussion around the U.K. when the consumer originally started to crack in...
- Earnings calls 2008-10-16
- Credit Card Firms Tug On Customers' Leashes
- The ubiquitous credit card industry is getting squeezed by the country's economic pinch. Purveyors of plastic are tightening lending standards by lowering borrowing limits, raising interest rates, discouraging rolling over balances and boosting fee penalties on late payments. They're also diligently monitoring customer credit...
- Blog posts 2008-10-20
- Is It Wrong to Glorify Debt on the Big Screen?
- Touchstone Pictures' film version of Sophie Kinsella’s “Confessions of a Shopaholic†will hit theaters Feb. 14, months after the American love for buying things we can’t afford officially brought the world economy to its knees. Just today, the Conference Board announced that consumer confidence is the worst it’s ever been,...
- Blog posts 2008-10-28
- Signs Look Bad for Tech Sector Spending
- Over on ZDNet, Sam Diaz argued that a tech downturn won't be like the dot com bust and, for a number of reasons, that things won't get that bad. I've got to disagree â€" not with his observations about how ingrained technology is, but on the ultimate outcome, because it...
- Blog posts 2008-10-29
- For Credit Card Lending Woes, Watch Capital One
- Now that many mortgage-laden financial institutions have fallen or been badly damaged, the next victims are expected to be credit card lenders. Common wisdom is that once the recession truly kicks in and unemployment increases, defaults or tardy payments will start crumbling the vast mountain of credit...
- Blog posts 2008-10-29
- Visa Inc. F4Q08 (Qtr End 09/30/08) Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer Session Operator Yes, thank you. Operator instructions First question comes from Tien-Tsin Huang, JP Morgan. You may ask your question. Tien-Tsin Huang – JP Morgan Thanks, I appreciate all the disclosure. It’s really helpful. Let me ask a question about pricing. Has your thinking on pricing and the...
- Earnings calls 2008-10-29
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