October 20, 2014
US: Abandoned railroad merger pushes campaign to end antitrust exemption
Soon after it was revealed that railroad giants CSX and Canadian Pacific Railway have abandoned efforts of a possible merger, reports say the deal has pushed some lawmakers’ agenda to...
October 16, 2014
US: Looming railroad merger raises alarms for Sen. Klobuchar
Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) is reportedly seeking a federal review of a rumored merger between two major railways she fears will cause more problems in the troubled Upper Midwest. According...
April 25, 2014
Powering Payments For Europe’s Railroads
Ogone powered a mobile app designed to help one of Europe's high-speed rail providers streamline its ticketing operations. Launched in December, it’s now used by 1,000 riders per week. Find...
March 28, 2014
Bitcoin Bubble Tracker: A new Blow to Bitcoin … and...
Over the past week, the IRS deemed bitcoins taxable property, giving critics even more ammo to blast what Warren Buffet has dubbed “a mirage” and a man that Andreessen sort...
March 23, 2014
The Market that Antitrust Built: Public Policy, Private Coercion, and...
Posted by Social Science Research Network The Market that Antitrust Built: Public Policy, Private Coercion, and Railroad Acquisitions, 1825 to 1922 – Frank Dobbin (Harvard University – Department of Sociology)...
March 19, 2014
The Essential Facilities Doctrine: The Lost Message of Terminal Railroad
Posted by Social Science Research Network The Essential Facilities Doctrine: The Lost Message of Terminal Railroad – Stephen M. Maurer (University of California, Berkeley) and Suzanne Scotchmer (University of California...
March 10, 2014
Fighting Fraud Behind the Scenes
If there ever was a perfect system that could provide the ideal interaction between consumers and merchants or banks, it starts with how the consumer feels during the transaction...
November 01, 2013
Bieber Vs. Buffet, Third World Meets U.S. And FI Dregs
Welcome to What’s Trending In Payments – a weekly look at the most popular, irreverent and important stories the payments industry had to offer over the past five days. Which...
August 09, 2013
US: Judges grant railroad giants’ appeal of price-fixing case class...
Four major US railroads won an appeal Friday as a three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals in Washington reversed a lower court’s class certification of about 30,000 shippers...