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		<title><![CDATA[Cellphones may one day replace credit cards]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A pilot project involving RIM, BMO and MasterCard Canada could result in cellphones one day replacing credit cards. MasterCard Canada has partnered with BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion and Bank of Montreal to try a contactless payment technology called PayPass that allows a shopper to simply tap their enabled phone against...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:27:19 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[MasterCard Q3 2009 Earnings Call Transcript]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Question-and-Answer Session Operator Operator Instructions Your first question comes from the line of Julio Quinteros  with Goldman Sachs. Julio Quinteros  - Goldman Sachs I guess just let me start off real quickly with the severance charges, some new severance charges into the fourth quarter. Any thoughts, Martina,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:02:51 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[MasterCard's Priceless Discovery: Apps Really Work]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- MasterCard was an early mover in the apps space with its ATM Hunter and now, as the company celebrates the twelfth year of its famed "Priceless" ad campaign, it's brought out a new app to match called "Priceless Picks." In this video program we take both...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 17:09:05 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Will Merchants and Consumers Get Relief From Soaring Credit Card Fees?]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kathy and Warren Miller run a mom-and-pop grocery store in tiny Elmore, Vt. pictured at left, and soaring credit card fees are strangling it.    In congressional testimony on Thursday, she said they make only two cents whenever a customer pays for a 99 cent bag of potato...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[PayPal goes plastic with debit cards aimed at students - and their parents]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[PayPal on Tuesday introduced a new service for parents with kids who are in high school or college. Called Student Accounts, it centres on the use of a special PayPal-branded Mastercard debit card that's tied to a parent's PayPal accounts. The parent acts as the provider and can funnel money...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[MasterCard Incorporated Q1 2009 Earnings Call Transcript]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Question-and-Answer Session Operator  Operator Instructions Your first question comes from Andrew Jeffrey &#8211; SunTrust Robinson Humphrey.  Andrew Jeffrey &#8211; SunTrust Robinson Humphrey Can you talk a little bit about the trends you are seeing in assessments? I know you mentioned they were a little bit higher this...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 11:28:17 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[MasterCard Incorporated Q4 2008 Earnings Call Transcript]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Question-and-Answer Session  Operator  Operator Instructions The first question comes from the line of Julio C. Quinteros &#8211; Gold Sachs & Co. Julio C. Quinteros &#8211; Gold Sachs & Co. I wanted to just sort of hit one quick thing on the cross border commentary. If you could...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2009 11:08:15 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Financial Roundup: $15 Billion More to Banks, NY Fed Boosts Mortgages, MasterCard Buys Tech Firm, Nasdaq Sets Up Derivative Clearinghouse]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Treasury invests $15 billion more in banks --Ã‚Â  Seven banks, including two involved in takeovers, are recepients of $15 billion in funds from the federal government. Included are PNC Financial Services Group, which is taking over National City Corp., Fifth Third Bancorp, which is buying Freedom Bank, CIT Group, SunTrust...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[MasterCard Offers a Clear Technical Pattern In an Uncertain Market]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sean Hannon submits:  Broadly speaking, there are two main groups of investors.  Those using fundamentals will analyze a company's business prospects, growth potential and financial structure with the hope of finding stocks that the market has mispriced.  Technical investors will rely upon chart patterns and trading activity to decide...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[MasterCard: Is the Optimism Justified?]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Zachary Scheidt submits:   MasterCard Incorporated MA reported earnings after the close Monday.  By almost all standards the company beat expectations coming in with earnings of $2.47 per share on revenue of $1.3 billion dollars.  The expectation had been for earnings near $2.25.  The third quarter was characterized by...]]></description>
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