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Posted May 9, 2007
Heartland Celebrates 10th Year Anniversay With Impressive 1st Quarter Earnings
Analysis of: Heartland Payment Systems Announces 56% Increase in First Quarter Net Income | biz.yahoo.com
Author: Kamala Worthington, Former VP, Marketing Product Manager Bank of America Corporation
Key Implications:Heartland celebrates its 10-year anniversary in payment processing and merchant acquiring to post impressive 1st Quarter earnings and record processing volumes. HPS' 1st Quarter net income is up 56% from 2006, to $6.9 million.  In 2006, HPS processed one billion transactions and...
Art Gillis Posted May 4, 2007
MFW Acquisition of Harland
Analysis of: Clarke American parent completes $1.7 billion dollar buy-out | biz.yahoo.com
Author: Art Gillis, President Computer Based Solutions, Inc.
- consolidation in check printer companies- if you’re the only one left in a declining products business, it can become a booming company
Posted April 27, 2007
MasterCard Lloyds TSB win harbinger of intensified network competition to come
Analysis of: Lloyds Converting Visa-Branded Cards to MasterCard Network | www.americanbanker.com
Author: GLG Member Program Contributor
Commercial MasterCard was certain to compete more vigorously against its larger not-for-profit cousin Visa. The question was always how much and how soon. It gained share in 2006. Its 2007 win of Lloyds TSB suggests 2006 was not a one-off and that MasterCard will increase share in 2007 as well.
Posted April 25, 2007
Polcard acquisition established First Data as top processor in New Europe’s largest card market
Analysis of: First Data to Buy Poland's Polcard | www.forbes.com
Author: GLG Member Program Contributor
While Polcard’s price was rich, viewed in the context of First Data’s ambition of achieving a pan-European delivery footprint, it was eminently strategic.KKR may well moderate management’s appetite for more in a similar vein.
Art Gillis Posted April 25, 2007
CheckFree is to X as Certegy was to Fidelity National Information Services
Analysis of: CheckFree Cuts 2007 Outlook | biz.yahoo.com
Author: Art Gillis, President Computer Based Solutions, Inc.
Two key drivers influence the financial services tech world these days - 1) vendor consolidation, and 2) integration of applications. In my opinion, both make sense and they are very beneficial no matter which side of the fence one resides.
Posted April 25, 2007
MasterCard and Visa need to stave off banks establishing their own payment processor in India
Analysis of: Banks plan rival to Visa, MasterCard | news.indiamart.com
Author: GLG Member Program Contributor
If Indian banks establish a national card payment processor it will significantly reduce MasterCard’s and Visa’s market opportunity there. Now, while the market is still nascent is the time for the global payment networks to cement their processing position.
Posted April 25, 2007
Debit Cards Trumps Credit Cards, Cash & Checks As Consumers "Most Preferred/Used" Card
Analysis of: Debit Cards are King for US POS payments - Edgar Dunn payments study | www.finextra.com
Author: Kamala Worthington, Former VP, Marketing Product Manager Bank of America Corporation
Key Implications:Some surprising findings emerged from the PaymentsDynamics 2007 Preferred Payments Study, based on data gathered from over 10,000 respondents from different socio-economic classes, suggests that consumers' "most preferred" form of payment is "debit cards," trumping credit cards, cash,...
Bill Bradway Posted April 25, 2007
M&I Spins Metavante Onto the Dance Floor: Can Either One Dance with the Stars?
Analysis of: M&I to spin off Metavante - WSJ | www.finextra.com
Author: Bill Bradway, Founder & Managing Director Bradway Research, LLC
Marshall & Ilsley Corp. (NYSE: MI), a $50+ billion regional bank holding company is preparing to sponsor the spinoff of Metavante, its outsourcing subsidiary, to shareholders. Warburg Pincus has agreed to pay M&I $625 million for 25% of Metavante. In addition, Metavante will take on $1.75...
Richard Bialek Posted April 24, 2007
But Can I Trust It?
Analysis of: Skype to offer money-transfer system via PayPal | news.yahoo.com
Author: Richard Bialek, Chief Executive Officer Bialek Group
Consumer money transfer is is a large and growing global business. Its size and current pricing are attracting new entrants and new technologies that promise lower cost transfer services. But cost is not the only factor, and often not the most important factor in selecting a money transfer...
Bill Bradway Posted April 22, 2007
CheckFree's Cloudy Future: Bank of America Has Online Billpay Options
Analysis of: CheckFree hit with lawsuit; may lose Bank of America contract | www.finextra.com
Author: Bill Bradway, Founder & Managing Director Bradway Research, LLC
This article draws attention to a recent shareholder lawsuit against CheckFree and its management for allegedly disseminating misleading guidance on CKFR's Ecommerce transaction growth forecast between April and July of  2006. This alleged misguidance caused equity analysts to raise their...
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