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MasterCard

MasterCard Acquires DataCash – Game On!

by Allen Weinberg on August 19, 2010

in Allen Weinberg, ECommerce, Ecommerce Payments, MasterCard, Payment Gateways

As you may have seen on PaymentsNews, MasterCard announced the acquisition of DataCash, a pan-European (and a bit beyond) gateway, this morning for $520 million.
Before I jump in, you might want to take a look at the earlier opinion piece I posted regarding Visa’s $2 billion acquisition of CyberSource, since the rationale for MasterCard’s acquisition [...]

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eRetailer Tender Type Acceptance Analysis

by Russ Jones on June 23, 2009

in American Express, Discover, ECommerce, MasterCard, PayPal, Russ Jones, Visa

Internet Retailer recently published the 2009 Edition of its Top 500 Guide, which provides profiles and statistics on “America’s 500 Largest Retail Web Sites”. eCommerce professionals look forward to its publication every June not only to see the relative rankings of the online retailers, and to also pick apart the shifting dynamics of the industry.

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Failures of Branding

by Carol Coye Benson on April 3, 2009

in American Express, Banking Industry, Card Networks, Card Payments, Carol Coye Benson, Contactless, Ecommerce Payments, MasterCard, Visa

At Glenbrook, we’re pretty interested in what makes mass consumer adoption of new payments capabilities happen – or not. We’ve been talking lately about “brand as action” – the notion that consumers (and merchants) need a way to express how they are going to pay or be paid.
This can be brand with a “capital B” [...]

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Merchant Risk Council – Tom Ridge

by Allen Weinberg on March 11, 2009

in Allen Weinberg, Card Fraud, Conferences & Meetings, ECommerce, Ecommerce Payments, MasterCard

Former Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and Governor of Pennsylvania Tom Ridge keynoted this morning’s opening of the Merchant Risk Council. What a great speaker! Note that Ridge also sits on the board of Ethoca (www.ethoca.com).
Ridge focused on managing risk in environment of uncertainty. He cited ties fraud to [...]

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Card Network Earnings Are In – It’s Now Safe to Exhale!

by Bryan Derman on February 5, 2009

in American Express, Bryan Derman, Card Networks, Financial Reporting, MasterCard, Visa, Writings

By Bryan Derman
It seems like it’s been a month now that we at Glenbrook – and people all around the payments business – have been holding our collective breath waiting to see what level of purchase volumes would be reported by MasterCard and Visa for Q4 2008.
Well, the results came in the last [...]

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