September 22, 2010
Driving Payments Innovation through Education- PYMNTS University
PYMNTS University: 2010-2011 School Year Click here to register for PYMNTS University Welcome back to campus. All of us at PYMNTS.COM hope you had a great summer and a relaxing...
September 19, 2010
Is Borrowing Bad? The Critical Debate We Aren’t Having
There’s a critical debate this country must have but isn’t. Is borrowing money a bad thing that consumers and small businesses should be discouraged from doing in part by restraining...
September 16, 2010
Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act
Jun 28, 2010, 7:00am Washington, DC – Americans have faced the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. Millions have lost their jobs, businesses have failed, housing prices have dropped,...
September 16, 2010
What Does the Credit Card Market Have In Common with...
by Joshua M. Frank (bio) The credit card industry is highly concentrated. Ninety percent of the lending market is controlled by the top 10 issuers, yet there still appears to...
September 16, 2010
How the Consumer Financial Protection Agency Act of 2009 Would...
As part of its overhaul of financial services regulation the Obama Administration has proposed stronger protection of consumers of financial products and services.[1] The Consumer Financial Protection Agency Act of...
September 15, 2010
eCommLink- Pioneering Personalized Prepaid Platforms
Peter Zuong has held executive positions at State Farm Insurance & Financial Services, California Institute of Technology, Bank of America and Wells Fargo Bank. Yet he still maintains a love...
September 03, 2010
Transition and Transformations in Latin American Competition Law and Policy:...
Daniel Sokol, Jul 14, 2010 Last year, Eleanor Fox and I published Latin American Competition Law and Policy. We attempted to fill a gap by editing a volume that examined...
August 26, 2010
Wells Fargo Expands ExpressSend Remittance Network in Mexico
Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE:WFC) has expanded its ExpressSend remittance network in Mexico through an agreement with Houston-based Transnetwork Corporation, adding more than 4,000 payout locations in Mexico for a...
August 19, 2010
Doing As They Say or Saying As They Do: Tax...
In recent years, credit card reward programs have become a basic component of personal finance. Credit card issuers use them to entice consumers to spend more on a given card....