Tag Archives: Visa

Visa Outlines Plan to Recoup Revenue After Durbin

The card brands won’t let a little thing like Federal Legislation stand in the way of profit. A 40% gain wasn’t enough for them. Continue reading

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Visa Creates Another Fraud Monster

As if we didn’t have enough fraud problems, Visa is offering the carders another way to commit fraud. It’s all about “How many transactions can we do per second,” and the word secure isn’t in their vocabulary. Continue reading

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Credit card quote of the week

In response to the growing number of complaints about interchange fees, Visa said that merchants don’t pay interchange fees. Really? Continue reading

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Visa Doesn’t Like Merchants

Visa and MasterCard don’t like merchants and they spent a million and a half dollars in the second quarter of 2008 to prove it. Continue reading

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Still Another Attempt to Prevent Credit Card Fraud

Over in Europe, Visa is developing yet another “milestone in fraud prevention” for which, they admit, “If the PIN can be recorded surreptitiously, the card will prove no more secure than its predecessors.” Yeah – so what’s the point? Continue reading

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