All GLG News Analyses Filed Under: Transaction & Payment Processing

e-Payments growth accounted for over 66% of all noncash payments in 2006, contributing to the decline in check volume annually,  since 1995 when approximately 49.5 billion checks were paid. Approximately 30.6 billion checks were paid in 2006 with a value of $41.7 trillion, down from 37.3 billion...

Choppy markets may have led to Cardtronics shares falling more than 10% in its IPO debut on 12.11.07. Shares fell as low as $8.33 a share and never made it pass its $10 per share offering on 12.11.07. Based on the reduced size and price of its IPO, Cardtronics market cap is approximately $385 million....

IBM and Cisco both experienced a major slowdown in IT spending from the US financial services sector in their most recent quarters. Five months after the start of the sub-prime meltdown, many believe that financial stocks’ fundamentals could still get worse. This will translate into lower IT spending...

Real-time data, when used in concert with customer performance analysis, can help banks accelerate migrating customers that use paper checks to electronic payment methods. Real-time data will strengthen banks ability to provide international payment offerings as part of a complete...

EC Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes is inviting and giving license to national card payment networks to carve out competitive roles for themselves in an integrated European card payments market. To the extent they do, MasterCard’s and Visa EU’s growth opportunities will be diminished. It is increasingly...

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...

- 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?

TJX's data breach stretched from the U.S. to Canada and as far as the Ukraine, when one of the ring leaders was arrested for his role in TJX's data card breach. Reports first surfaced that more than 45 million cardholders had been affected, however, after Visa's investigation, the number more than doubled...

Blackhawk Network teams up with Kroger Stores to afford consumers to shop conveniently for prepaid gift cards while picking up groceries, filling  prescriptions or other retail items. Blackhawk Network will offer Kroger's customers the variety, selection and convenience consumers seek, which are...

This announcement suggests Equifax is moving away from providing information solutions and data and into a position of providing Business Process Management (BPM). A move into the BPM sector will cause them to lose focus and become distracted away from their core value of delivering data, advanced analysis...