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• Visa, Inc. F2Q09 (Qtr End 3/31/09) Earnings Call Transcript

  Seeking Alpha - 2009-04-29

  Question-and-Answer Session Operator Operator Instructions The first question comes from the line of Jason Kupferberg – UBS Securities. Jason Kupferberg – UBS Securities I wanted to start with a question on the margins. Obviously nice to see the raise in the outlook there. I guess it...

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• Visa fee hike to pay for data gathering

  - 2008-06-01

  The Department of Homeland Security DHS is seeking to extend a J-1 visa fee increase to help pay for a nonimmigrant information collection program. The proposed regulation was posted on the Federal Register March 26. Fees for J-1 visas--which allow for eigners to enter the United States to...

  Tags: foreigner, Government, Regulations, U.S., U.S. Department of Homeland Security, visa, Visa Inc.

• EU/SERBIA : EU SEALS VISA FACILITATION AND READMISSION AGREEMENTS WITH SERBIA.(European Union)(Brief article)

  - 2007-05-25

  Just a few hours after the Serbian parliament approved late in the night on 15 May a new pro-European-oriented government formed by President Boris Tadic's Democratic Party DS, Vojislav Kostunica's Democratic Party of Serbia DDS and former finance minister Mladjan Dinkic's G17 Plus party, the EU...

  Tags: agreement, Democratic Party, Government, SOFTWARE, Visa Inc.

• US Raises Concerns Over Israeli Visa Policies.

  - 2006-10-19

  By Jim Teeple (VOA-Jerusalem) The U.S. government says it is concerned about new visa restrictions Israel is imposing on Palestinian-Americans who want to visit or live in the Palestinian territories. State Department officials have delivered a demarche, or diplomatic note, to...

  Tags: Government, Israel, U.S., U.S. Government, visa, Visa Inc.

• Visa, MasterCard to pay 336 million dollars in currency suit

  - 2006-07-26

  NEW YORK AFP — Visa and MasterCard agreed to pay a total of 336 million dollars to settle a class-action lawsuit alleging the credit card firms shortchanged US consumers in foreign currency transactions, a regulatory filing showed. MasterCard International said in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, Government, Litigation, MasterCard International, Regulations, settlement, Visa Inc.

• Visa malfeasance eyed.(visa issuance)(Brief Article)

  - 2006-01-01

  A Government Accountability Office investigation of 11 U.S. consulates in six countries found that half of them were not following proper procedures to guard against visa fraud on the part of U.S. officials. While the number of consulates inspected was small--there are 211 ...

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• Foreign Scholars Encounter Visa Problems

  - 2005-07-01

  Nicaraguan history professor Dora Maria Tellez was forced to give up a spring teaching post at Harvard University's Divinity School after the U.S. government refused to grant her a visa. Tellez was a leader in the 1979 Sandinista movement that overthrew the Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza. She later held elected...

  Tags: American Civil Liberties Union, Government, MARKETING, scholar, SOFTWARE, visa, Visa Inc.

• Border Security: Actions Needed to Strengthen Management of Department of Homeland Security's Visa Security Program

  BNET - 2005-07-01

  The Homeland Security Act of 2002 required that the Department of Homeland Security's on-site personnel in Saudi Arabia review all visa applications. The act also authorized the expansion of the Visa Security Program to other embassies and consulates to provide expert advice and training to consular officers, among other things....

  Tags: Visa Inc., Security, U.S. Department Of Homeland Security, Border Security, Homeland Security, Government

• US scam may hit 130,000 here.

  - 2005-06-21

  Jun 21, 2005 (The Sydney Morning Herald - ABIX via COMTEX) Credit card information stolen from a US processing centre has placed 40 million card holders at risk. The information is being used to make fraudulent transactions and the scam is presently under investigation...

  Tags: FBI, Government, MasterCard International, National Australia Bank, SALES, Visa Inc.

• Australian credit card holders hit by US computer scam.

  - 2005-06-20

  Jun 20, 2005 (The Age - ABIX via COMTEX) Tens of thousands of Australian credit card holders may be victims of a US computer fraud. In June 2005, the US Federal Bureau of Investigation is examining the original security breach involving US-based CardSystems Solutions....

  Tags: American Express Co., CardSystems Solutions Inc., computer, FBI, Government, SALES, Visa Inc.