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• Will Merchants and Consumers Get Relief From Soaring Credit Card Fees?

  BNET - 2009-10-12

  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...

  Tags: Bank, Visa Inc., Financial, Fee, Credit Card, MasterCard International, Financial Services, Sales Channel, Sales, Alain Sherter

• Visa F3Q09 (Qtr End 6/30/09) Earnings Call Transcript

  Seeking Alpha - 2009-07-29

  Question-and-Answer Session Operator Operator Instructions Our first question comes from Tien-Tsin Huang with J.P. Morgan. Tien-Tsin Huang – J.P. Morgan Thanks. Great results. Actually I was hoping to ask two questions, one business and one high level question. Just for some of the incentives, good news on the resignings....

  Tags: Visa Inc., Incentive, Payment, J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., Call Transcript, Earnings, Sales Force Management, Sales, Seeking Alpha

• Visa Inc. F4Q08 (Qtr End 09/30/08) Earnings Call Transcript

  Seeking Alpha - 2008-10-29

  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...

  Tags: Visa Inc., Credit Card, Consolidation, J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., Call Transcript, Earnings, Pricing Strategy, UBS AG, Pricing, Sales Channel, Marketing Research, Financial Services, Marketing, Sales, Seeking Alpha

• Senate Bill Seeks Roll Back in Fees

  - 2008-06-16

  A bill introduced in the Senate would give retailers immunity from antitrust laws to allow them to negotiate bilateral agreements with credit card companies on interchange fees, setting up a federal panel to oversee the negotiating process. The bill, similar to one moving through the House, is aimed at...

  Tags: MasterCard International, Retail, SALES, U.S. Senate, Visa Inc.

• Credit Card Issuers Kicked Around on Capitol Hill

  BNET - 2008-05-16

  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...

  Tags: Visa Inc., Credit Card, Retail Company, National Retail Federation, Retail, Sales Channel, Financial Services, Sales, Lisa Everitt

• NATSO Head Says Group Is Determined To Eliminate 'Unfair' Credit Card Fees

  - 2008-02-04

  LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. The president of NATSO said her association would continue to lobby Congress to require credit card companies to stop charging "unfair" interchange fees while also moving forward with its previously filed lawsuit against credit card companies. "It's one of those sleeper issues," Lisa Mullings, president of...

  Tags: chargeback, president, SALES, U.S. Congress, Visa Inc.

• Notre Dame, Chase Enhance Fightin' Irish Fan Experience; ND Becomes One of the First Universities to Accept Contactless Credit Card Payments with blink

  - 2007-10-09

  Fighting Irish Fans Spend Less Time in Concession Stand Lines During Football, Hockey, Basketball Games; Earn Points for All Card Purchases WILMINGTON, Del. -- Chase Card Services, a division of JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE:JPM), and the University of Notre Dame today announced the acceptance of blink at Notre...

  Tags: concession, FINANCE, J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., payment, SALES, Visa Inc.

• Discover to be spun off

  - 2007-03-24

  NEW YORK -- Morgan Stanley announced Friday its long-expected plans to spin off its Discover operation, saying it would distribute shares in the fourth-largest debit and credit card network to the investment bank's shareholders. Morgan Stanley had announced Dec. 19, when it released its fourth- quarter results, that...

  Tags: FINANCE, MasterCard International, Morgan Stanley, SALES, shareholder, Visa Inc.

• Visa Anticipates 7.5 Percent Growth in Holiday Spending Driven by Specialty Retail and Online Sales

  - 2006-11-02

  Consumers Will Make "Value Purchases" and Show Caution About Big-Ticket Outlays

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• Jesus takes Visa at US churches

  - 2006-10-06

  WASHINGTON AFP — The days of donating at church by dropping money into a basket may become a thing of the past if Marty Baker has his way. Baker, a pastor in the southern state of Georgia, has come up with a divine idea to raise money for the Lord...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, church, Jesus, SALES, Visa Inc.