All GLG News Analyses Filed Under: Transaction & Payment Processing

There’s little not to like in MasterCard’s evolving top and bottom line growth story, a story they could well – indeed should, beat, if! they can contain regulatory threats

Chase Paymentech to become the leading brand after JP Morgan Chase divorces from First Data. JP Morgan Chase has restructured extensively since Gordon Smith has taken over and this is another indicator of how he believes the new JPMC will compete by maintaining more control over its destiny,...

MasterCard’s  revamped top and bottom line growth forecasts are eminently achievable, assuming it can contain or better yet roll back regulatory restrictions.

The card payment networks have been gradually stepping up their game as commercial enterprises and the markets have come to recognize the global payment networks’ immense intrinsic operating leverage, pricing power, growth prospects, and defensibility, and therefore value.  However neither MasterCard...

The acquisition of 50% of Eufiserv’s processor reminds that notwithstanding LBO distractions, First Data remains the most consequential payment processor and leading consolidator in Europe, and a potential threat to MasterCard’s and Visa EU’s processing businesses. First Data’s challenge is to simultaneously...

Discover is soldiering away on its path to merchant acceptance parity with MasterCard and Visa in the US. Closing the acceptance gap will produce greater cardholder spend and richer interchange, thereby enriching Discover’s value proposition for third-party issuers, which in turn will enhance the value...

First, a few definitions for the sake of context clarity  -  A “solution” is any brand name system offered as an in-house system or outsource service, and driven by the owner of the system, or a third party.The group of 32 vendors includes any company that has customers that rely on that company...

Modern investment banking, brokerage and asset management live and die with top flight IT systems. Risk and Information Management are at the core of the securities business. Reducing costs in the downturn is important, but maintaining operating efficiency and risk controls is a regulatory necessit...

With the shake up amongst the largest U.S. credit card issuers over for the time being, it's no wonder that processers like First Data are going to be searching for new ways to leverage their network investments.  First Data built their reputation in part by holding as many pieces of the transaction...

It takes a very focused approach to be successful in managing an ATM network profitably! Economies of scale contribute greatly to the profitability of an off-premise, non-bank ATM network. .