September 17, 2010
New Era Debt Solutions Sees Continued Consumer Risks Amid New...
Feb 22, 2010, 7:20pm Today, new bank regulations under the Credit Card Accountability, Responsibility and Disclosure Act, also known as the Credit CARD Act of 2009, went into effect. According...
September 16, 2010
Research and Markets: Payment Card Issuer Strategies 2010: The Rise...
Sep 3, 2010, 10:53am Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/614cf5/payment_card_issue) has announced the addition of Javelin Strategy & Research’s new report “Payment Card Issuer Strategies 2010: The Rise of The Cautious...
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
The Economics of Payment Card Interchange Fees and the Limits...
Fresh off of the most substantial national liquidity crisis of the last generation and the enactment of sweeping credit card regulation in the form of the Credit CARD Act, Congress...
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
What’s Next with the Consumer Financial Protection Board: Insights from...
The Consumer Financial Protection Board, which was set up by Title X of the Dodd-Frank Act, is waiting for the President to appoint a director to organize the new agency...
September 01, 2010
What the Little Engine that Could and Nuclear Physics Have...
Remember the kid’s story “The Little Engine That Could.” That describes what goes on with a lot of startups in two-sided markets. The train is trying to get up the...
August 04, 2010
Mobile Payments go Viral: M-PESA in Kenya
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation [1] From: Yes Africa Can: Success Stories from a Dynamic Continent, World Bank, May 2010 Abstract M-PESA is a small-value electronic payment and store...
July 16, 2010
Seeking Fertile Grounds for Mobile Money
M-PESA is a huge success… and now what? Safaricom’s M-Pesa success story has focused the global attention on Kenya as the leading edge of the mobile money revolution2. M-Pesa...
