All GLG News Analyses Filed Under: Transaction & Payment Processing

While the credit card and payments industry would benefit from more innovation and competitive verve, search providers are not a near-term threat.

It is true that ATM fees increase will lead customers for more frequent use of Internet Banks services. There are following pros for this statement: - customers are more flexible with using their time and location (24/7 concept plus transactions are available from any place on earth with...

The regulatory mandarins conjured an improbable counterfactual that Morgan Stanley aspired to and would become a force in pan-European acquiring to justify fining Visa. They aim to cow the two pan-European card payment networks to a more compliant attitude as SEPA unfolds.

Bank Technology has seen an expansion in new technology that has been built on old technology. It is not just the bigger organizations but the smaller entrepreneurs that are in the running.

FULL DISCLOSURE (our holding company privately owns online properties which utilize PayPal, GOOGLE and Credit Card payment processing) 1) brick & mortar stores NEED swipe, online currently does not 2) credit cards are merely one option for the online buyer  

Worker remittances constitute a critical flow of foreign currency into Latin America and the Caribbean. Remittances exceeded US$58 billion in 2006, greater than the total value of development fund inflows to the region. In at least six countries, remittances account for 10 percent of GDP. The market...

m-banking is expected to grow exponentially over the next few years and financial institutions, payment processors, MNOs (Mobile Network Operators), merchants, card networks and service providers are still hashing out how to fix a fragmented infrastructure in the U.S and determine which technology (NFC-Near...

Discover Financial Services has signed three more merchant acquirers in 3Q07, which means Discover has access to more than 90% of U.S. transaction processing volume, with deals from Chase Paymentech, BA Merchant Services and most recently Wells Fargo Merchant Services and Discover is closing in on 100%...

I don’t think so. And here are the reasons

Cardtronics is taking a huge step in the right direction to improve its P & L, balance sheet, and income statements. However, diversification is going to be essential in its growth and stockholders retention. Many companies believe that going public is a great feat but it does have its drawbacks....