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• "Branch In a Box" Offers Branch Optimization For FIs
• "New Century Closes Its Pipeline": Investors Should Not Be Shocked
• 2005 HMDA Data is Stale on Presenting Trends
• 2006 Headliners In the Payments Industry
• 2007 Bank Tech Outlook
• 6.2 Java earthquake - Losses not expected to exceed $100m
• 7-11 Meets Wincor's iCash POS Technology
• A $70 Million Investment Provides Access to China's $120 Billion Savings Market
• A Comprehensive National Approach to CATs is Necessary
• A couple of examples...
• A find or a folly?
• A Good Case Study of Bank ATMs
• A LOSING NYMEX CANDIDATE'S COMMENT
• A rationale for MasterCard trading at a discount to First Data and Global Payments
• A Toothless Dog Behind the Steel Gate?
• Accelerating Market Trend - Crowding Space or Developing/Expanding New Frontier?
• Acquiring Barclays Would Make BofA the Leading Credit Card Issuer in the World’s Two Largest Credit Card Markets
• Acquiring Misys would transform Fiserv
• Adoption of Check Imaging/Exchange Has Been Slow But Growth Will Occur in 2007
• Advanced Functionality
• Advanced-Functionality ATMs Change the Way FIs Do Business At the ATM
• Algorithmic path as an investment trading strategy to optimise performance.
• Algorithmic Trading or the future of Traders
• Amex and Discover face hurdles developing CUs and banks as a channel
• AmEx Offers EIPP Soultions to Corporations to Reduce Processing Costs
• AmEx Outsourcing Transactions Processing To eFunds
• Amex Reinforces Super-premium Payment Brand Edge
• Amex Sacrifices Card Issuer Profits to Build Payment Network Business
• Analyst warnings on Puerto Rico economy & banking sector
• Annuities are NOT for sick people
• Are Bank Sites Accessible to the Blind?
• Are financial markets turning a blind eye to looming geopolitical risks?
• Are The GSE's Back in The Sub-Prime Mortgage Market?
• Are they after the wrong exchange?
• Are U.S. Banks Growth Caps Too Limiting? Bank of America Thinks So
• Are you a trader? Start reorienting your Career
• Are You Willing to Pay More For Healthcare To Live Longer?
• ATM Branding at C-Stores & Drugstores Latest Trend to Watch
• ATM Marketing Screens
• ATM Skimming and Phishing or Trapping
• ATM Upgrades
• ATMs The Price Of Convenience
• B of A jumps into illegal alien credit
• Back Office Conversions (BOC) Gets A Head Start for 07
• Back-Office Conversion Gains Traction: Converting Paper Checks to ACH Debits
• Bank Branding at Retail ATM's
• Bank of American Owns 65% Market Share Of Online Bill Payers
• Bank Restrictions Cause Slow ATM Growth In Western Europe
• Bank Tech Vendors are Reactionaries
• Banks have check processing competition like never before
• Bare-bones ACH-linked payment schemes face enormous hurdles getting traction
• BBVA Raises its Bet in the US; Joins 6 Other Big International Banks
• BBVA's Acquisition of Compass Bancshares Expands Market Share from Arizona to Florida
• BCBS Association:Will No Longer Disclose Financial Results
• Beijing Using Biometrics At ATMs to Capture Criminals
• Big Brother Cracks Down on Fraud, Launches Operation Identity Shield
• Big Margins for Medical Device Makers Face Scrutiny By Consumers
• BOE Freezes Terrorists Assets Under the UN's AML/CFT Guidelines
• BofA likely to seek and win economic and brand concessions from Visa
• BOFA's Purchase of U.S. Trust Puts Them In A Sweet Spot
• Boom time for Private Equity
• Brain Drain implications
• Bull run or Bear hug
• But is it a Good Time to Buy?
• Buy Backs are plaguing residential Mortgage Bankers
• Buy Backs will Continue to Hurt the Subprime Market Market
• Can a lender and borrower have the same interests?
• Can Discover step up its game?
• Card displacement of cash for small purchases set to explode
• Card processing wins and losses highlight different trends in US and Europe
• Cards At Vending Machines Consumer Acceptance?
• Carreker Forced to Confront Failed Business Model and Underperformance
• Cash Displacement - Role of EMV Chip
• CAT Capacity Will Return in the Context of Modern CAT Management
• CBOE Goes Head-to-Head With ISE
• Certain Mortgage Banks are out performing
• Chairman of Financial Services Committee Warns of House Action If ILCs Permitted
• Check 21
• Check 21 Redo: Merging Check & ACH Too Complicated Says Check-ACH Coalition
• Check Imaging (Check 21) Gains Traction in the ATM Industry
• Check Imaging Adoption Makes Strides in 2006
• Check Imaging/Exchange Shows ROI In 2006: Poised for Growth in 2007
• CheckFree Acquires Rival Carreker to Capture Check Imaging Market Share
• CheckFree Buys Corillian, Adding Online Banking To Its Portfolio
• Chicago Subway Stations to get Bank of America ATMs
• China trade negotiations
• China's ICBC IPO Gets Green Light: May Net Up to 21 Billion
• China's ICBC Launches World's Largest IPO
• China's Largest Bank Raises the Stakes
• China's WTO Agreement Opens Its Banking Sector to Foreign Banks
• Chinese Banks Orders Up NCR's, ATMs, Service & Maintenance
• Citigroup Joins An Elite Group of Foreign Investors Taking Stock In China's Banks
• Clearer M&A rules coming - but don't hold your breath!
• CME Housing Index May Change Future Lending Practices
• Coincidence or Strategic Move? Citi Ending Universal Default & Any Time For Any Reason Policies
• Comdata's Master Brand Strategy Will Be The Defining Moment As A Growth Engine for Ceridian
• Competition Finally Coming to Healthcare?
• Consumer Driven Consequences Will Impact Insurer's
• Consumer Driven Healthcare Trends
• Consumer Loans are higly lucrative business in Germany
• Contactless Cards – a Correction
• Contactless Payment Option Makes Waves In the U.S.
• Contactless Payments Grows With Adoption & Consumer Acceptance
• Contactless: real or theoretical risk?
• Convenience is a product of Customer Service
• Corillian Brings the Technology CheckFree Needed to Compete
• Counterfeiting moves upmarket
• Credit Card Old Bull Will Exercise Enormous Influence Shaping Independent Visa
• Credit Cards, Debit Cards & Contactless Payments Grow Volumes at Vending Machines
• Credit Union Offers Members' Option to Deposit Checks Over the Web
• Criminals Deterred from Using the ATM to Commit Crime
• Dark Times Ahead For PIN Debit
• De Novo Banking: Identifying Those Elusive Key Success Factors
• Debit cards emerging as the new money transfer agents
• Decade of Cards Spending Outpaces Paper Payments
• Deja Vu All over Again
• DEMOCRATIC REALTIME
• Diebold (DBD) SEC Probe
• Diebold Commands ATM Share in Latin America
• Diebold Notifies Its Customers of Software Updates
• Diebold Only ATM Manufacturer to Make Top 10 Technology List
• Diebold Secures Security Integrator Expert: Actcom
• Diebold To Deliver A Fleet of ATMs To China's Construction Bank
• Diebold's (DBD) Voting Machines Business Gets More Bad PR
• Diebold's ImageWay ATM Software Expands Check Imaging Solutions
• Diebold's Woe's And An SEC Investigation
• Discover & JCB Offers Customers More Global Card Acceptance
• Discover attempts to close acceptance deficit
• Discover Pact with FDC Increases Acceptance Base and Value of the Discover Franchise
• Disgruntled Employee Causes Havoc to Paine Webber's Computer Network
• Divining What Credit Card “Reforms” the New Congress Will Push For
• Do Not Underestimate the Difficulty of Consumer Driven Full Replacement
• Do they know what they have they stepped in?
• Does the Card Payments Industry Need A New Business Model For Interchange?
• E-banking in Africa, a complex process
• eBay & PayPal Held Talks About Entering the Banking Arena
• Ebay for Money a Disruptive Banking Innovation?
• Economic Data Contradicts Abelson's Prediction of Housing Bust
• Electronic bill pay tied to credit cards offers potential revenue growth for banks and payment networks
• Electronic Payments Have Growth Headroom Displacing Small and Micro Cash Transactions
• Electronic Voting (and Diebold) Encounter More Problems
• Employers Prepare To Offer Consumer Driven Healthplans
• Etrade puts together a hard act
• EU Regulators Lay Down Gauntlet for MasterCard
• EU tom toms threatening card payments intervention beating louder
• European countries seek to effectively ban free email accounts
• European credit card issuers and payment networks likely to see fee reductions
• European Exchanges, a Mutated Creature
• European Payment Processing Land Grab Underway
• Ever Adept Ebay's PayPal Opts to Leverage MasterCard's Global Acceptance Network
• Everything's Big in Texas: NCR, Check 21 & No-Envelope Deposit
• Excellent Overview of What We All Know (Feel) About Inflation
• EXCHANGES CONSOLIDATION
• Exchanges must diversify and expand their global reach
• Experian’s business credit monitoring: a great idea
• Faith in Traded Companies
• FDIC Makes Go Decision For Some ILCs; Extends Moratorium One-Year For Non-Financial ILCs
• FDIC Qtrly Report: Deposits at Banks & S&Ls Rose to Record High of $247 Billion
• Finding Diamonds in the Rough
• Fingerprint ID and Biometrics Make A Perfect Marriage
• First Data CEO Touts Merchant Processing Changes and Ducks Addressing Righting Struggling Card Issuer Processing Business
• First Data Checks Out of Check Division to Free Up $250 - $300 Million
• First Data Corporation and Visa Settle Their Differences
• First Data Focuses On Its Core Business While Realigning
• First Data on track to be a (the) dominant pan-European payment processor
• First Data Seeks Global Dominace In the Payment Processing Market
• First Data Seeks Processing Dominance In Latin American Markets
• First Data Throws in the Towel on Competing Processing Interbank Visa Transactions in the US
• First Data's Portfolio of payment businesses lack coherence
• FI's IT Investments Shows ROI
• Flips, Falsifications, and Fraud
• For those that commit fraud penalties and enforcement become more strict
• France Rolls Out EMV Chip and PIN Cards
• Fraud in Debit Continues to Increase
• Fraudsters Go Phishing at PayPal & eBay
• Friends With Benefits
• Fundamentals Matter - So Does Diligence
• GCA Continues to Grow its Dominance in Gaming
• Gift Cards: The Dark Side
• Gift/Prepaid Cards Topped Expectations to $28 Billion+ During the Holidays
• Global Payments Positions for Emerging Market Growth to Offset US Decline
• Gold mining continues to suffer inspite of galloping gold prices
• Goldman Sachs Gets In the Multi-Billion Dollar Infrastructure Funding Game
• Golfing Behavior as a “catch all” for the effectiveness of rewards??
• Gong Xi Fai Chai
• Google Checks Out PayPals Market Share
• Google inching into payments
• Google's Checkout is far from a "PayPal killer", for now
• Great Info For Healthcare Investors
• Harvard isn't Worried About Housing Bust
• Has Nasdaq chosen wisely
• Have the plaintiffs in the consolidated antitrust interchange suit committed a blunder?
• Having your Cake and Eating it Too...
• Healthcare Investors Must Evaluate Underwriting Innovation To Spot Good Bets
• Healthplans Race Toward, Predictive, Personal and Pre-emptive
• Herd Mentality of Investors in Mortgage Industry
• Here Come The Storms
• High time bank puts money to work this way.
• High-end technology work to drive outsourcing deals in future.
• Higher Gasoline Prices Put Political Spotlight on Interchange
• Highlights of the 2006 Gift Cards/Prepaid Cards Study
• Home Price Growth Slows to Lowest Rate Since 1999
• Home values mirage
• How do you tell a broker from an exchange anyway?
• HSAs are a shift of cost from employer to employee, not an increase in quality
• HSAs Offer Options For FIs, Issuers, Processors & Consumers
• HSBC Shakes Up Its North American Management to Address Bad Debt of $10 Billion+
• I think peer to peer lending will take off faster than expected
• I would be unusual for B of A not to do business with others
• I’m paying interchange as a Consumer? Who knew??
• Impact of Record Cat Bond Issuance
• Implications of Check 21 are far reaching, not just domestic deposits
• In an All Electronic Trading World, Does it Matter Where a Company Lists its Shares
• Inadequate Research and Definition of Industry Terms Belies Portrayal of SubPrime Borrowers
• Incentives to Control Medical Costs
• Increased Bankruptcies Will Reduce US Credit Card Profitability in 2007
• Independence Should Unleash Value in Discover's Payments Business
• India’s Big Microfinance revolution
• Innovative approach with a “can do” attitude should make dent on the existing market
• Insurance convergence - outsourcing to a bright future?
• Interchange Fees Causes Revolt By Merchants
• Interchange Regulation in the U.S. Unlikely
• Intuit Gains Greater Access To Payments Market With ECHO Acquisition
• Intuit's Purchase of Digital Insights Expands Its Reach to FIs & Small Businesses
• Investing to Enhance Brand Critical to Enhancing MasterCard's Enterprise Value
• Is it early to buy mortgage companies?
• Is it Lights Out for Home Depot & WalMart?
• Is it really worse?
• Is Leasing for Everyone?
• Is Subprime a Sinkhole for Lenders?
• Is the FDC / VISA settlement anticompetitive
• Is there a Delinquency "bubble" coming in Real Estate Lending
• Is There a Need for a New Credit Card Network
• Is this (really) a surprise?
• Is This A Debit Or Credit Card Transaction? Debit!
• ISO's - Pay Attention to PCI Now!
• ISO's required to play under different rules
• Italians Seek European Payment Processing Critical Mass and Viability
• It's A Showdown on the Hill: Topic - Credit Card Interchange Fees
• It's A Standard Union
• It's all in the price
• It's the banks, stupid!
• It's the Network: Discover & First Data Partner
• La plus belle pour aller danser
• Large UK ATM Operator Sells to Private Equity Firm
• Law Firm Merger Mania Continues
• Leaving VISA unlikely for Bank of America
• Legal Liability and Increased Competitive Threats Priced into MasterCard's Valuation
• Level Playing Field for LIC
• LG Card Up For Public Sale
• Life expectancy and cost of pensions promises seem set to continue to rise
• Life Settlement Market Analysis and Impacts
• Life's Not So Good for LG Card
• Like Their Namesake in Omaha They Understand the Fundamentals
• Likelihood of repercussions for life insururers unknown
• Linking Health and Productivity
• Linking Lifestyle Choices With Healthcare Costs
• Lower Mortgage Profits - Does it Make Sense to Make It Up On Volume?
• M&A Activity - The Key to Survival for Bank Tech Companies
• M&A Activity Among Small to Mid-Sized Mortgage Bankers Will Increase
• Management Buy-Out Likely of RR Donnelley
• Management must avoid temptation
• Marsh after Spitzer
• Massachusetts Healthcare Bill to Break the Bank
• MasterCard & GSMA Pilots Remittance Hub for Migrant Workers
• Mastercard & Visa Imposing Fines & Penalities On Merchants Not Compliant With PCI Standards
• MasterCard & Visa Need to Be Mindful of the Political Front in Interchange Conflict
• MasterCard Belatedly Acknowledges Signal Opportunity to Acquire Processing Revenue
• MasterCard Closes Door on Currency-Conversion Litigation
• Mastercard Continues to test alternative payments
• MasterCard Enforces Its World Cup Sponsorship Rights
• MasterCard in Brussels Regulators’ Cross Hairs
• MasterCard Offers Interchange Transparency and Rate Caps to Appease Merchants Points to Vulnerabilities
• MasterCard should be valued between Concord's sale to First Data and PayPal's IPO
• MasterCard Should Zealously Increase Its Volume, Rather Than Claim Competitors'
• MasterCard Throws Merchants and Consumer "Activists' a Bone
• MasterCard tweaks brand to highlight its global coherence versus Visa
• MasterCard undervalued
• Mastercard Worldwide Interchange Fees is Scrutinized
• MasterCard’s Attempt to Appease Regulators Will Cost Growth
• Mastercard’s product to give a new twist to the migrant remittance market
• MasterCard's governance in Europe is likely to hamper its post IPO growth
• MasterCard's interchange-related antitrust legal liability exposure may be quite modest
• MasterCard's Net Interchange Hike Designed to Spur Reward Credit Card Issuance and Spend
• Mega merger a trend setter for further alliances
• Merchant Dissatisfaction with Payment Standards Bodes Well for Upstarts
• Merchants footing the bill for data breach costs?
• Merrill joins the quest to benefit from the rumoured housing bust
• Merrill Lynch to Expand Private Banking Unit With First Republic Purchase
• Microfinance Bill in next session of Parliament
• Microfinance takes centrestage
• Misys, what's the deal?
• Mitigating the risks of exotic mortgages
• Mobile-phone operators on the brink of become a factor in retail financial services
• More Americans are losing their homes
• Morgan Stanley Makes Key Investment to Support MBS Business
• Mortgage Banks move to diversify Earnings (Good Choice)
• Mortgage Fraud - So What?
• Mortgage Wholesalers Must Diversify Delivery Strategies
• Most Preferred Card: Gift Cards/Prepaid cards
• NCR Extends Its Reach Beyond ATMs to Data Warehousing for Trump
• NCR Inked Deals With China's Largest Banks For 5,600+ ATMs
• NCR Offers Check 21 and No-Envelope Deposit Technology
• NCR Provides Banking Without Borders at the ATM
• NCR Receives India's Largest ATM Order for 3,000 ATMs
• NCR, the Innovator of Check Imaging Solutions Offers Remote Deposit Capture Services
• NCR's Check-Imaging Technology Is Embraced by New Englanders
• NCR's Layoffs Part of Restructuring Strategy to Cut Costs by $350 Million
• New Check/Cash Imaging Technology will help Diebold and NCR, but not until 2008
• NIM is good but performance is better
• No Fee ATMs
• No More Swiping of Your Debit Cards
• Non Prime Originations Are Consolidating
• Non-Standard Annuities: An opportunity?
• Not for long
• Not so fast
• NYMEX is on the right track, finally
• NY's Oldest Bank, BONY Gets A New Title With the Acquisition of Mellon Financial
• NYSE EURONEXT, A CRYSTAL BALL FOR LSE?
• Obesity Research Highlights Consumer Driven Challenges
• OCC Brings Regulation to Prepaid/Gift Card Issuers
• One Man's Opinion on Future Prime and Non-Prime Mortgage Originations
• Online Banking Authentication Guidelines FAQs Announced
• Opportunities for Health Insurers in Middle Market
• Outsourcing coming to Brazil?
• Outsourcing In Insurance
• Outsourcing in the prepaid card market
• Over-priced Credit Monitoring Services — Identity Fraud Experts Speak
• Payment card interchange rates unlikely to fall
• Payment cards poised for growth in healthcare
• Payment industry must proactively address litigation and regulatory challenges to continue to grow
• Payments Goliath Takes A Baby Step to Provide Actionable Intelligence on Top of Processing
• PayPal Inches Toward Becoming a General Payment Network
• PayPal’s Struggle for “Off-eBay” Volume
• PEOs Rebound with the Small Business Economy
• Perfect Storm in Default: Mortgage Servicing News Febraury
• PIN Pad fraud on Debit Cards Increases
• Plus Ça Change – Reinsurance renewals 2007 or was that 1987?
• PNC Bank Offers Reimbursement of ATM Surcharge Fees
• Polish Competition Authority Interchange Ruling Potentially Catastrophic
• Politics Will Dance Around Subprime Problems
• Populist Rhetoric and Public Ignorance – Keys to the Interchange Controversy
• POS Merchants Moving Forward With PCI Compliance
• Post IPO MasterCard should enjoy considerable upside growth potential
• Potential Federal Regulation of Ins Industry a Net Positive
• Precious metals derivatives market place heating up
• Predictable News...
• Prepaid Cards Growth Explodes In Europe
• Prepaid Cards, Personalization & Instant Issuance Go Hand-in-Hand
• Prepaid/Gift Cards: Unclaimed Funds, FED Regs, States & Merchant's Breakage
• Preparing for Consumer Driven Health
• Pressures Mount From Walmart & Congress: Forces the FDIC to Halt Bank Charter Applications
• Pricate sector response to NPSS
• Prime For The Taking
• Private banking in Asia
• Promising prospects for ETFs
• Protect Your Identity - Use Caution with Email Solicitations for Personal Data
• Puerto Rican Banks delay SEC filings
• Puerto Rico Into Recession
• Puerto Rico Political Primer and its Effect on Resolving the Deficit Issue
• Radical new UK pensions law means that companies now have to treat pension plan trustees as a powerful creditor
• Rating Agencies Race To Stay Current On Mortgage Problems
• RBI Cracks down on NBFC Deposits:
• REAL ESTATE BOOM NOT LIKELY TO BUST
• Realtime Access to Personal Earned Income Will Spark Increase In Consumer Spending
• Reasons as to Why Citigroup Bid for Nikko will succeed
• Reforms to change the face of China's Banks
• Regulation of MasterCard and Visa Advantages Competing Payment Networks Such as Amex
• Regulatory tide threatening MasterCard may be turning
• Reinsurance Capital - Do we need more?
• Remote Deposit Capture (Substitute Checks/Check 21) Takes Market Share
• Remote Deposit Capture Earns Its Stripes - SpinOff from the Check 21 Act
• Remote Deposit Capture Is a Spinoff of Check 21
• Report Finds Bank of America, JP MorganChase & WAMU Top Three FIs Combating ID Theft
• Retailers Tap Government to Extract Concessions From MasterCard, Visa, and Consumers
• RFID Chips Spur Growth Via Contactless Cards, Fobs, & Transit Cards
• Risk Management & Profitably Can Coexist for FIs
• Route of Reform in Reinsurance Regulation in US
• Rumblings of Healthcare Reform
• Sage is Here to Stay
• Second Lien Financings: Additional Reasons for Future Losses
• Securing Your Personal Data May Cost More
• Security Incentives necessary for compliance
• Selander Tells Investors and Signals Plaintiffs MasterCard is Open to Settlements
• Self-Checkouts See A Boon in 2006 and Beyond
• SEPA Enables Select Payment Processors and Networks to Amass Market Share in Europe
• SEPA: Changes Come with Europe's Single Euro Area Payment System
• Shortage of Capacity even in Non-Hurricane Areas
• Showdown with the 'Slowdown'
• Simon Says, If It's a Gift, Why Are States Suing Issuers Over Gift Cards?
• Singature Debit v/s PIN Debit: Who Wins, Who Loses?
• Slow and Steady is Proper Approach in Current Environment
• Smaller World Has Larger Implications...
• So who's vulnerable ? and will 2006 be the year?
• So, after this Mega-Merger, what's next?
• SOLD: Putnam For $3.9 Billion to Canadian Power Financial Corporation
• Spain, a surprising economy
• Spanish ‘Real State’
• States v/s Issuers Over Gift/Prepaid Cards Fees: Who Wins/Loses?
• Strategic alliances a good strategy for the Indian Banking sector
• Street Firms Want To Get Into The Mortgage Origination Business
• Study Shows Employers Bundling More Benefits with Health
• Subprime Lending and Servicing: The Former Darlings Lose Value
• Subprime Market a Boon to Most Borrowers
• Sub-Prime Opportunities: Too Soon to Act?
• Subprime Originations Adapt and Endure
• Surcharge Fees Send Consumers From the Teller to the ATM
• Surcharge Free ATM Networks
• Surcharge-Free ATM Networks is the Trend of the Future
• TD Banknorth Pilots Free Checking Program
• Technology Wins
• Teradata, NCR's Data Warehousing Division Will Go Solo
• The Aftermath of the China-U.S. trade talks.
• The Battle for Federal versus State Regulation
• The challenge ahead for foreign banks in China
• The Challenging Pass-Fail Paradigm in Reinsurance Accounting
• The Debitman Cometh to POS Via HSBC to Reduce Interchange Fees
• The Demise of First Data Net -- a Good End to a Bad Idea
• The Difference Between a Debt-Market Bomb and Credit Development
• The Difference in Exchange Economics
• The Feds Guidance on Exotic Mortgages May Create Winners and Losers
• The Florida Legislation will exacerbate pricing pressures in the reinsurance industry.
• The Health and Productivity Connection
• The High Cost of Presenteeism Is Noticeable
• The Non-Prime Retail Platform - Branches Vs. Call Centers
• The Other Side of Prepaid/Gift Cards: Restrictions, Fees, Expiration Dates
• The party's almost over for open-outcry options trading
• The Secret Masterplan Behind Google Checkout
• The Stability Provided by Insurance and Reinsurance
• The Story Behind The Story
• The time is now for the LSE to sell
• The Truth About Universal Healthcare
• The use of servicing to maintain strong NIM income
• Thinking About Discover’s Valuation and a Post-IPO Breakup Rationale
• TIO ATM-Kiosk Deployments
• TIO To Reshape Financial Services For Retailers & C-Stores
• Title Insurance -Is it worth it?
• TJX Data Breach: Big Numbers often Belie the Real Story
• To ATM or not to ATM
• To Grow Outside E-Auctions PayPal Must Challenge MasterCard and Visa on Their Own Turf
• Top 5 Servicers Near 50%
• Total System Services (TSYS) Overseas Growth Ambitions Not Enough
• Total Systems Spinoff Rationale Compelling
• TREND: Small Banks Checking Out Check 21
• TSAI's Signal Growth Opportunity Remains in Overseas Markets Revisiting or Establishing Payments Infrastructure
• TSYS Card Tech Acquisition Augurs Well For Growth
• TSYS Pulls Up Stakes In NY: Moves Prepaid Operations to GA Office
• Turning Convenience Stores into Banks: Greendot, Incomm, Visa, MasterCard Race to Build Reload Networks for Prepaid Cards
• Underestimating Life Expectancy could hamper growth of a profitable LS Exchange.
• Unified Brand Can Only Help Comdata Grow
• Unshackled from bank control, MasterCard can accelerate growth
• Until They Build It, Consumers Will Not Come
• Upgrades, Replacements, Regulations & Compliance Drive ATM Sales in 2005
• Use of Debit, Prepaid Cards Heats Up Market
• Using Common-Sense to Control Healthcare Costs
• Usury Reduction Will Hammer Japanese Consumer Finance Market
• VeriFone’s (NYSE: PAY) Largest Shareholder Slowing Reducing its Stake
• Visa and MasterCard Currency Exchange Rate Settlement Update
• Visa announces interchange transparency…let the rhetoric begin
• Visa EU and Morgan Stanley “Agreed to Bury the Hatchet”
• Visa EU Opting Out Will Be A Blemish On the IPO
• Visa IPO Plans
• Visa IPO Will Benefit From MasterCard's Trail Blazing
• Visa scores PR coup in publishing US interchange rates
• VOLGA TUNES AT DEUTSCHE BÖRSE
• Volume will no longer mask mistakes
• Wachovia Corporation is Back in the Card Business
• Wachovia Faces Major Operational Challenges In Transforming to A True Commercial Banking Model
• Wachovia keeps building relationships
• WAMU buys Commercial Capital, AGAIN
• Watch Housing Appreciation IF You Watch Mortgages
• We Will See A SIgnificant Upsurge In 401(k) Type Plans
• Wells Fargo Customers in CA To Get 825 Check Imaging/No-Envelope ATMs
• Wells Fargo: From the Stagecoach to the Launch of M-Banking
• What Does IBM, NCR & Hitachi Have In Common? Allegations of Bribery In China
• When Will The Consolidation Begin
• Which Top 10 Bank IT Trend Analysis is Right?
• Why Did Ameriquest Shut Down its Traditional Retail Network?
• Why MasterCard's Revamp Will Work (and Visa's Won't)
• Will 40 year mortgages impact mbs performance?
• Will PCI Data-Security Standards Change Merchants' Behaviors with POS Transactions?
• Will Retailers adopt PCI standards
• Will the Fed Replace or Increase Regulation
• Will The FFIEC Mandate Change Identity Fraud?
• Will TRM (Large Non-Bank ATM Operator) Find a Buyer?
• Wincor ATM Service
• Wincor Captures ATM Share in Latin America
• Wincor in the U.S.
• Wincor Prevents ATM Fraud With Anti-Skimming Device
• Wincor Shifts Sales Focus to US to Capture Market Share
• Wincor Surpasses 2-Year Post IPO Expectations
• Wincor World 2007 Offers Innovative Solutions for Banking & Retail Industries
• Wincor-Nixdorf Targets Servicies Market Share With eServices
• Wincor's POS Software Complements Hypercom's POS Terminals
• Wirecard & Mastercard Offers New "Virtual Mastercard"
• Wizard Takes On the Banks of Oz
• World's Top MBS Manager Denounces Predictions of Systemic Credit Risk
• Xpress Check-in At the Hotel
• Younger Consumers Prefer Online Banking, ATM