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June 30, 2008
MasterCard removes Amex suit overhang
Analysis of: Amex to Get $1.8B in MasterCard Deal, Warns of Credit Woes | www.americanbanker.com
Author: GLG Expert Contributor
While MasterCard arguably will pay American Express too much, the settlement removes a troubling overhang.   It is time for MasterCard and Visa Inc. to focus their energies on fending off a potentially far more damaging threat: the “Credit Card Fair Fee Act of 2008.”
June 27, 2008
GE chose a less than optimal market in which to unload its US credit card business
Analysis of: Nobody's Snapping Up GE's Plastic: Possible Buyers of Private-Label Business Worry About Consumers' Shallow Pockets | online.wsj.com
Author: GLG Expert Contributor
Angst about the consumer credit environment and risk associated with GE Consumer Finance’s near-prime retail credit card portfolio, not surprisingly, have given a number of large US card issuers who otherwise should have been keen to bid, cause for pause. Nonetheless, for the right buyer – most likely...
June 26, 2008
Chicago Fed Payments Fraud: Perception versus Reality
Analysis of: Assessing the landscape of payments fraud | www.chicagofed.org
Author: GLG Expert Contributor
Conference take-aways: (1) All payment systems – paper checks, truncated checks, pin and signature debit cards and credit cards and ACH are subject to fraud. (2)  Fraud prevention systems need to take a holistic enterprise-wide rather than a point solution approach.      ...
James Van DykeJune 20, 2008
There's no Downturn in the Market for Consumer ID Fraud Protective Services
Analysis of: ID Protection Startup Prepares Commercial Push | www.darkreading.com
Author: James Van Dyke, President and Founder, Javelin Strategy & Research Inc.
This article focuses on one of many startups in the consumer protective services space, as evidence of an "evergreen" market category. Current challenging economic times make investment in this ID Fraud sector a natural, and desperate times could actually bring about increased criminal activity leading...
Mark MariottiJune 19, 2008
Hardware & Software Duality
Analysis of: HP to Acquire EDS for $13.9 Billion | www.hp.com
Author: Mark Mariotti, CEO, Future Management Holdings Inc
HP is a long time solid provider of computer hardware, and EDS (founded the information technology out-sourcing industry more than 45 years ago) is a longtime provider of system services. The Plan of Merger, dated as of May 13, 2008, by and among EDS, Hewlett-Packard Company and Hawk Merger...
James Van DykeJune 19, 2008
Mobile PtoP Payments: MasterCard's Partnership with Obopay Demonstrates Why This Market Deserves Attention
Analysis of: MasterCard Partners with Obopay to Offer Industry-leading Person-to-Person Mobile Payment Service | www.mastercard.com
Author: James Van Dyke, President and Founder, Javelin Strategy & Research Inc.
Mobile PtoP payments are a disruptive technology that must be monitored by financial industry investors, because it requires no hardware infrastructure change, and can be adopted by consumers today to send payments between individuals. All leading payments brands, banks, and processors could be affected...
June 17, 2008
No Longer Living in a Material World, Credit Cards Breaking Free of Plastic Boundaries
Analysis of: Mobile phones to replace credit cards | www.bankingtimes.co.uk
Author: GLG Expert Contributor
The implication of credit cards being displaced by mobile phones represents one more important change in the payments industry; the shift to a virtualized account.  In the near future, it is likely that consumers will no longer need plastic cards, as transactions will be enabled through...
Tom DaileyJune 17, 2008
Plastic Cards as an account access device will continue to diminish
Analysis of: Mobile phones to replace credit cards | www.bankingtimes.co.uk
Author: Tom Dailey, Founder, Tom Dailey Consulting
- Plastic Cards as access devices to various types of payment accounts will continue to be important but will increasingly give way to alternative access methods - These alternative access methods will include devices such as smart-card enabled devices such as cell phones, watches or other devices and...
Mark MariottiJune 17, 2008
Las Vegas Housing Parabola
Analysis of: HOME INVENTORY INCREASES IN MAY | www.lvrj.com
Author: Mark Mariotti, CEO, Future Management Holdings Inc
With 45 percent of contingent sales identified as "short sales," or sales in which the lender will be required to accept less than the principal balance owed, we can't expect investor demand to grow. Investors currently have other more liquid and stable securities to place their bets, and...
June 11, 2008
Plucky Revolution Money takes on payment giants
Analysis of: New Brand Pitches Security, Transfer Link | www.americanbanker.com
Author: GLG Expert Contributor
Revolution Money vies to win share away from the card payment network and money transfer establishment. It intends to compete as an open network, with lower base merchant acceptance fees, merchant-sponsored pos cardholder incentives, better fraud prophylactics and a money transfer feature. Reasonable...

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