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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...
Shares Fall as Visa Quarterly Results Rise
By Dan Wilchins NEW YORK (Reuters) - Visa Inc V on Monday posted quarterly results that beat analysts' expectations, but the company's shares fell in after-market trading amid investor concern about how the economy would affect results. Many economists say the United States...
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BNET Daily Dispatch: Visa, Tyco, BMW, and Merrill Lynch
Visa is expected to announce that Joseph Saunders will become CEO of the company as it prepares to go public next year. Saunders, Visa's executive chairman, helped restructure the company by finding board members and naming a new CEO. Visa said last year that it would go public...
Visa Limits Fuel Frustration in Efforts to Fill High-Skill Jobs
When U.S. recruiters go out to buy technical talent, they shop in domestic markets that are highly protected by restrictive immigration policies, voluminous and ever-changing rules and a cumbersome visa process. The prime example of this regulatory nightmare is the H-1B visa program. Because bringing in an employee under an...
Border Security: More Emphasis on State's Consular Safeguards Could Mitigate Visa Malfeasance Risks
Issuing a U.S. visa to a foreign citizen in exchange for money or something of value is a crime that can facilitate entry into the United States of unqualified persons, including those who may wish to do our country harm. Internal controls make it difficult for an employee to commit...
Border Security: Strengthened Visa Process Would Benefit From Additional Management Actions by State and DHS
In adjudicating a visa application, Department of State State consular officers are on the front line of defense against those whose entry would likely be harmful to U.S. national interests. In October 2002, GAO identified shortcomings and made recommendations on the role of national security in the visa process. This...
Border Security: Strengthened Visa Process Would Benefit From Improvements in Staffing and Information Sharing
GAO reported in October 2002 that the visa process needed to be strengthened as an antiterrorism tool and recommended that the Secretary of State, in consultation with appropriate agencies, develop a clear policy on the role of national security in the visa process, create more comprehensive guidance on how consular...
Border Security: Actions Needed to Strengthen Management of Department of Homeland Security's Visa Security Program
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....
A Discussion of Approaches to Sales and Use Tax Compliance for Commercial Card Transactions
Commercial cards may be implemented as a purchasing card program or a "one card" program that includes the purchasing card functionality. For ease of understanding, any card, including a "one card" used for procurement of goods and services, is referred to as a purchasing card in the body of this...
Visa Commercial Consumption Expenditure Index
As part of its commitment to help Visa Member financial institutions better serve their commercial customers, Visa Commercial Solutions and an internal team of Visa research and economic experts have developed a financial metric that standardizes how business and government spending is monitored within the United States. This metric, the...
Best Tactics to Increase Program Growth: The Purchasing Card Benchmark Report
This report highlights a study where purchasing card program challenges, priorities, strategies, and technologies were surveyed to provide program management parameters and best practices. Issues of program control to enable new business and cost reductions are presented along with additional ways to drive value from purchasing card programs. The report...
Procure-to-Pay Best Practices
Today, corporations are working to coordinate accounts payable, procurement, and strategic sourcing activities, and they are also modifying their processes to improve information sharing. Center-led management of these disciplines supports optimal vendor selection, negotiation, and management. This paper focuses on Visa's Procure-to-Pay Best Practices, which encompass the entire procure-to-pay process.
Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance and How It Relates to the Visa USA Cardholder Information Security Program
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 SOX was written in the aftermath of the accounting scandals of Enron, WorldCom, MCI and similar companies to ensure that the financial reports submitted accurately reflect actual financial performance. The majority of the act is designed to tighten control over financial auditing and reporting. This...
Commercial Payment Cards and Cash Management
This report provides an overview of the effectiveness of cash management within today's business environment. The report is based on a comprehensive survey designed to take an in-depth look at the effectiveness of cash management within today's business environment. It indicates that challenges with their cash management process but are...
Visa Corporate Fact Sheet Payment Solutions for Economic Growth
This paper covers four key points. It demonstrates the economic value of electronic payment systems. It outlines the infrastructure requirements, which are becoming easier to address with the advent of smart cards and mobile telephony. It describes the monetary, regulatory, and legal elements of the institutional framework needed to support...
The Credit Card Cases
Banks that are members of Visa and MasterCard would be well-advised to consider taking steps to limit their potential exposure to persons injured by the challenged antitrust violations. When Visa was unable to require banks to choose between Visa and MasterCard, most banks chose to be members of both and...
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. Financially consumer can suffer no loss. Surveys have shown, however, that...
CardEx Provides Platform Development for Visa USA
Card Express has been a leading issuer of Host Based Stored Value HBSV cards and applications since 1995. CardEx's platform superiority and advance technology was recently acknowledged when Visa DPS (www.visadps.com), a division of Visa USA and the second largest issuing processor of Visa transactions in the United States, selected...
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PCI Security Standards Council to Host Webinar on New Payment Application Data Security Standard
--Merchants and service providers to learn key components of new Standard, benefits for cardholder data storage and protection and latest program rollout-- WAKEFIELD, Mass. -- The PCI Security Standards Council, a global, open industry standards body providing management of the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard DSS, PCI...
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