mastercard

MasterCard is an electronic payment processor that makes money by processing payments between the banks of merchants and the banks of purchasers that use its MasterCard debit and credit cards and Prepaid MasterCard to make purchases. MasterCard's main competitors are Visa, American Express, and Discover. MasterCard ranks behind Visa as second in total market share.

Although MasterCard has brand loyalty and is recognized the world over, almost half of its revenues come from within the borders of the United States. In no country outside of the U.S. does its revenues account for more than 10 percent.

The new Credit Card Accountability, Responsibility and Disclosure (CARD) Act will affect MasterCard and other card issuers. The reform includes interest rate increase restrictions, more notice before changing rates, and restrictions on fees that can be charged among other items that it addresses. This is likely to affect earnings for the credit card companies.

Bloggers speaking about MasterCard can be found at sites like itpro and finextra.

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• Interest rates on credit cards hit highest point in 13 years

  
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  Interest rates on credit cards have hit a 13-year high. Image: MoneyBlogNewz/Flickr.com/CC-BY The interest rates charged on credit cards have recently reached a 13-year high. Since legislation has changed the rules about how interest can be charged, card companies are raising the base rates to make up lost ground. ...
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• For banks in cyber heist, how to get their money back?

  
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  Because the sums were large and such attacks are relatively new, the two Middle East banks hit in a $45 million ATM heist face an uncertain path in trying to recover their losses, financial, insurance and legal experts say. Oman-based Bank of Muscat lost $40 million and United Arab Emirates-based National Bank of ...
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• MasterCard to power Nigerian Identity Card Program

  
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• In Hours, Thieves Took $45 Million in A.T.M. Scheme

  
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• 120 Million Nigerians To Receive MasterCard Branded National Identity Smart Cards

  
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  The Nigerian National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) and MasterCard have announced a pilot project to roll out 13 million MasterCard-branded National Identity Smart Cards with electronic payment capability. The program is the largest roll-out of a formal electronic payment solution in the country and the ...
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• Barclaycard Arrival World MasterCard Review: No Annual Fee and $200 Bonus

  
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• Card Processor Hit In A $40 Million Breach. Was It Yours?

  
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  A U.S. payment card processor was attacked in February as part of a $40 million cyberheist, federal prosecutors said Thursday (May 9)—but theyre not saying who the processor was. That means retailers have no way of knowing whether their processor is the one that thieves breached to gain essentially unlimited ...
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• Nigeria: citizens can bank on national ID system

  
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  The Nigerian National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) and MasterCard have announced at the World Economic Forum on Africa the roll-out of 13 million MasterCard-branded National Identity Smart...
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• WOO! DEBT!

  
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  Graph by: ebondefender Tagged: credit card , mastercard , debt , funny Share on Facebook
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• A good week for the overall Deal industry in Canada; confident growth.

  
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  I have been in Toronto all week visiting with several companies within this industry. I wanted to write a short post about the conversation we have been having and whom we have been having them with. I am even more confident in the future of the overall deals industry in Canada given the types of conversations and ...
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• How To Expand Your Business In New Countries

  
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  What does it take to expand your business internationally? As Dylan Thomas once said, “Do not go gentle into that good night.” My take on that is “Do not go gentle into that international market.” Go fiercely, but prepare!   Heres an article I wrote for Mastercard Business Network Blog that covers six ...
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• Headline News - May 8, 2013

  
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  On the web: India: Oxigen ties up with NPCI to unveil instant remittance service OxiCash for unbanked people - TechCircle.in - "OxiCash is a mobile wallet service through which people can make money transfers to any bank and also receive funds using the IMPS (Immediate Payment Service) platform of the NPCI…" ...
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• Three debit card options for international travelers

  
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  ATM and foreign transaction fees are the worst. These fees are especially prevalent and can be very high when traveling abroad.  Even with a no international transaction fee credit card, I find inherit risk in using my credit card abroad in certain situations.  As a result, I will often forgo the points and use ...
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• Walmart Builds Own Search, No Competitive Advantage In Buying

  
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• Visa and MasterCard: Don’t Chase Them Higher

  
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  Credit card giants MasterCard (NYSE: $ MA ) and Visa (NYSE: $ V ) both crushed earnings estimates this past week, and both are sitting near new all-time highs. Not bad, considering the line of work they are in.  Given that the global economy has been tepid at best lately and that unemployment remains stubbornly ...
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• A nice sunday with friends, Elvis and the Winter Sculpture fair.

  
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  Yesterday Shane, Leigh, Brad, Jake and I went to the Mastercard Winter Sculpture Fair out a the NIROX Sculpture Park. Judging from the huge amount of people that attended I would say that it was a roaring success. It was so nice to be out in the sun with friends, good wine and pork belly. They had a bunch of food ...
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• MasterCard’s Social Media ‘Conversation Suite’ Shapes Brand Strategy

  
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  MasterCard uses social media insights to guide business decisions and guide product development. But its unlikely smaller institutions can duplicate their success.
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• Tip of the Week: Network

  
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• The Five Greatest Stocks Update For May 2013

  
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  When I originally wrote my post on The Five Greatest Stocks For The Next Five Years  back in October of 2011, I really thought that these five great stocks would basically trounce the S&P 500 by now, but something certainly did change with one of the five greats named Apple Inc. ( AAPL ). At the time of the ...
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