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"A New Business Model For Card Payments" (Via Diamond Management & Technology Consultants)
See below abstract from the Diamond Management & Technology Consultants report by Amy Dawson and Carl Hugener: Credit and debit cards have been a major profit engine for issuing banks, but legal a… more »
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"A New Business Model For Card Payments" (Via Diamond Management & Technology Consultants)
waytoohigh wrote 1 day ago: See below abstract from the Diamond Management & Technology Consultants report by Amy Dawson and … more »
"Cracking Down on Hidden Fees" (via Washington Post)
waytoohigh wrote 1 day ago: A bill that would allow merchants to negotiate interchange fees directly with credit card companies … more »
Visa and MasterCard Interchange Fee Increases Impact PIN-based Debit Cards
waytoohigh wrote 2 days ago: While Visa and MasterCard attempt to limit the outrage over their windfall profiteering at the pumps … more »
"Gas stations say credit card fees are pinching meager profits" (via DallasNews.com)
waytoohigh wrote 4 days ago: The struggle with high oil prices has a new villain: credit card companies. While many drivers hav … more »
Tulips, Silver, Housing Market and Oil Speculators Have Nothing on MasterCard and Visa
waytoohigh wrote 1 week ago: Gas prices might plunge to $50.00 a barrel, yet MasterCard and Visa’s nearly $50 billion hidden ta … more »
MasterCard Worldwide and Visa Inc. vs. Ticketmaster
waytoohigh wrote 1 week ago: On Monday evening, I attended the Los Angeles Staples Center performance of the American Idol summer … more »
"Rally protests gas prices, credit card fees" (via OC Metro)
waytoohigh wrote 2 weeks ago: Via OC Metro Magazine Irvine business owner organizes rally to call attention to the fees credit … more »
"Old-time protest of high fuel prices might be a gas" (via LA Times)
waytoohigh wrote 2 weeks ago: Excerpt from July 1 Los Angeles Times Some people just sit around and complain about a problem (Not … more »
Credit Card Fees at the Pump are a 'Hidden Tax' on Consumers (via ConsumerAffairs.com)
waytoohigh wrote 2 weeks ago: Rising oil prices a gusher for card companies By Martin H. Bosworth (reposted in its entirety … more »
MEDIA ADVISORY: Rally to Stop Skyrocketing Credit Card Fees on Gasoline
waytoohigh wrote 3 weeks ago: MEDIA ADVISORY … more »
Merchants Say That Visa Fee Cut is Less Than Meets the Eye
waytoohigh wrote 3 weeks ago: WASHINGTON, June 27 MPC-Visa-fee-cuts Credit Card Fees on Gasoline Might Actually Be Higher, Not Low … more »
Why Technology Has Not Trimmed Merchant Interchange Fees
waytoohigh wrote 3 weeks ago: Visa and MasterCard can do all the back peddling they want - from creating an independent board of d … more »
Noise from the American Bankers Association
waytoohigh wrote 3 weeks ago: “ABA SAYS JUSTICE DEPARTMENT AND FTC LETTERS MAKE STRONG CASE AGAINST INTERCHANGE LEGISLATION. … more »
Great American Protest: Rally Against Visa and MasterCard's Profiteering From Record Gas Prices Planned at Start of July 4th Holiday
waytoohigh wrote 3 weeks ago: Are you overwhelmed by the record gas prices? Did you know that Visa, MasterCard and thousands of it … more »
Amex, MasterCard Reach $1.8 Billion Settlement in Antitrust Suit
waytoohigh wrote 3 weeks ago: American Express Co. reached a $1.8 billion settlement with MasterCard Inc. over the card issuer … more »
OPEC, Visa and MasterCard Have Much in Common
waytoohigh wrote 1 month ago: Thomas W. Evans wrote a New York Times Op-Ed ["Sue OPEC," June 19] calling for United States to su … more »
MasterCard: Greed or Fraud?
waytoohigh wrote 1 month ago: By bailing out the member banks, I wonder if the new MasterCard shareholders understand just how d … more »
"House to Hold Hearings on Credit Card Interchange Fees" (via ConsumerAffairs.com)
waytoohigh wrote 2 months ago: Click here to read the May 14th ConsumerAffairs.com article by Martin Bosworth. Reprinted below. … more »
At $50 Billion, Is MasterCard and Visa's Member Banks' Cartel Nearing its End?
waytoohigh wrote 2 months ago: The total annual merchant interchange fees continue to soar and reflect a growing discontinuity with … more »
