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Study Group: Credit Card Industry Experts(?)

Council Members in this Study Group: 785

This study group may include experts knowledgeable on commercial banking, retail banking, asset management, mortgages, consumer finance, exchanges, capital markets, transaction processing, credit cards, insurance, and business services.

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Leading Experts in this Study Group

Eric Fox
Product Development
Transactis, Inc.

Eric Fox, PhD, is currently the VP of Product Development at Transactis, a security and bill pay & presentment company. Mr. Fox leads Transactis' new business development efforts in financial services and telecommunications. From 1999 until 2006, Mr. Fox was with Capital One Financial Corporation,...

Richard Bialek, Chief Executive Officer , Bialek GroupRichard Bialek
Chief Executive Officer
Bialek Group

Rich Bialek is the Chief Executive Officer of BialekGroup, a corporate development boutique that serves as a trusted advisor to C-level executives and investors in financial services. He provides corporate development and strategy consulting services, partnership, market and product development, and...

Emilian Elefteratos, Vice President - Sales, Americas, SCM MICROSYSTEMS Emilian Elefteratos
Vice President - Sales, Americas
SCM MICROSYSTEMS

Emilian Elefteratos is currently the Vice President, Americas for SCM Microsystems. The company develops markets and sells the industry’s broadest range of smart card readers for secure PC, network, physical access and digital media readers. Emilian is the former General Manager and Vice President,...

David Cole, Executive Director, Transaction Processing SolutionsDavid Cole
Executive Director
Transaction Processing Solutions

David Cole is Executive Director of Transactions, a premier provider of transaction and payment solutions and services. He has over twenty five years experience in cards and management services with particular emphasis on applications in the credit, debit, and payment card industry. Over the last ten...

Clay Wagner
President
Merchant Union

Clay Wagner is President and Founder of Merchant Union LLC, a private ISO serving credit, debit and gift card processing solutions to merchants nationwide. Mr. Wagner is responsible for overseeing all departments of this corporation including inside and outside sales, direct marketing, customer service,...

Benjamin Prusky
CEO
Freedom Merchants

Benjamin Prusky is the Chief Executive Officer of Freedom Merchants, a New York-based privately-held payment processing firm, where he is working since 2004. He knowledgable about credit card merchant account industry. Mr. Prusky is involved in re-selling all major POS products such as Verifone, Hypercom,...

Jeff Feldman
VP Product Management
4Access Communications

Jeff Feldman is the Vice President and World-wide Product Manager at 4Access Communications, a POS terminal manufacturer. He has over 17 years of experience in the payments industry; in all facets of payment processing including POS hardware and software, integrated solutions, back office processing...

Kenneth Kral
Senior Vice President, Business Development
Voyager Fleet Systems Inc

Kenneth J. Kral has been the Senior Vice President of Business Development at US Bank Voyager Fleet Systems since 1998. Prior to his tenure at US Bank, Mr. Kral was a Vice President and National Sales Manager at GMAC Mortgage Corporation where he increased the closed loan volume by 59% and total profits...

GLG NewsSMAnalyses by this Study Group's Leading Experts(?)

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MasterCard Clouds on the Horizon? | 06-04-2008
Analysis of: MasterCard "buy," target price raised | www.newratings.com
Author: Richard Bialek, Chief Executive Officer , Bialek Group

The near-term prospects for MasterCard are positive, despite a weak US economy. MasterCard is riding a trend of payment transactions moving from cash and check to card and electronic media. The challenge to MasterCard comes from potentially disruptive regulatory and technology forces that MasterCard...

Credit Card Deal on Target for JP Morgan and Target | 05-12-2008
Analysis of: Target in credit card deal with JPMorgan | www.ft.com
Author: Richard Bialek, Chief Executive Officer , Bialek Group

The credit card deal announced between Target and JP Morgan makes sense for both parties.  It allows Target to address shareholder concerns regarding its card business and mitigate potential growing credit losses. It enables JP Morgan to further develop its private label retail card strategy by...

Discover Goes Global With Diners Club Acquisition – A Positive Step | 04-14-2008
Analysis of: Diners Club assets sold to US card issuer | www.businesstravelworld.com
Author: Richard Bialek, Chief Executive Officer , Bialek Group

The Discover Card acquisition of Diners Club International is a positive step, addressing one of Discover's competitive weaknesses, the lack of a strong global merchant acceptance network. But it is only one component of the comprehensive solution needed to address Discover’s competitive weakness versus...

Verifone (NYSE: PAY) will still be "THE WAY TO PAY" | 12-11-2007
Analysis of: VeriFone's Bad Accounting Blip | www.fool.com
Author: Emilian Elefteratos, Vice President - Sales, Americas, SCM MICROSYSTEMS

Among all players in this industry, Verifone remains in the best position to execute and be successful. The issue on hand remains categorized as an “honest oversight” isolated during Q1, Q2 and Q3 of the current fiscal year, and so far there was no reaction from their customers. Verifone, will most...

Who's to Blame? | 12-10-2007
Analysis of: VeriFone's Bad Accounting Blip | www.fool.com
Author: GLG Expert Contributor

- Is VeriFone's recent financial debacle endemic or a fluke? - Who's to blame? - Will it happen again? - Is the firm's business fundamentally sound?

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