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Tom DaileyJuly 11, 2008
The Pig is Still in the Python...
Analysis of: Credit Card Delinquency and Write-off Rates Still Below Historic Highs | www.nasdaq.com
Author: Tom Dailey, Founder, Tom Dailey Consulting
Credit Card delinquency and chargeoff rates are still tracking below historic highs.  There are signs that 2007 account vintages, especially those at or near subprime scores, may be among the worst performing vintages ever.  Card issuer guidance on delinquencies, writeoffs and loan loss provisions...
July 11, 2008
Clear skies ahead for eBay?
Analysis of: Traders Up On EBay, Down On Staples | www.forbes.com
Author: GLG Expert Contributor
eBay may be worth a second look after having been roundly criticized. The data doesn't support all the negativity. eBay could be a bargain right now.
Ian WoodJuly 4, 2008
Still a long way to go
Analysis of: European 3G subscriptions seen topping 100 million | www.reuters.com
Author: Ian Wood, Partner, Wireless Foundry
The market is still fragmented. In the big five we still see a wide spread of take up as consumers are yet to be won over. The mobile networks are still to discover a range of products that make the investment pay off. This talks about terminals rather than handsets and so a slowing of sales of phones...
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.      ...
June 26, 2008
eBay's Roots Get Watered
Analysis of: Creator of eBay's Pez Fable Starts Site for Telling Tales | blog.auctionbytes.com
Author: GLG Expert Contributor
eBay's is the world's largest online auction site as well all know. But never has it been so in danger of sinking, becoming a dot.com tragedy for the Web 2.0 generation. Are highly publicized changes it's making, and the overtures to bigger/big businesses, good for eBay in the long run?
Ian WoodJune 25, 2008
Too Little to Late
Analysis of: Motorola Impresses With 5-Megapixel Camera Phone | www.informationweek.com
Author: Ian Wood, Partner, Wireless Foundry
This is something that they should have launched 12 months ago.  Failing that then we should have seen it in February at GSM World. The design is dated and the technology is out of date. This new handset is not going to have Networks placing orders outside of the US.  At best this gets a C...
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...

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