December 11, 2011
Putting the Banking in Branchless Banking: Regulation and the Case...

By Tilman Ehrbeck and Michael Tarazi, Consultative Group to Assist the Poor Buoyed by a growing belief that poor people need a full array of financial services, financial inclusion advocates...

December 06, 2011
Correspondent & Relationship Banking 2012

Wednesday 22nd & Thursday 23rd February 2012, Central London Now in its 20th year, IIR’s Correspondent & Relationship Banking continues to serve as the annual gathering of the global correspondent...

December 05, 2011
Visa-Rwanda Partnership to Drive Electronic Financial Services

Visa Inc. (NYSE: V) and the Government of Rwanda today announced a wide-reaching Charter of Collaboration to develop localized solutions to extend access to financial services to local and international...

December 05, 2011
Visa-Rwanda Partnership to Drive Electronic Financial Services

Visa Inc. (NYSE: V) and the Government of Rwanda today announced a wide-reaching Charter of Collaboration to develop localized solutions to extend access to financial services to local and international...

November 29, 2011
MasterCard and Western Union Partner to Fuel Growth of Electronic...

Consumers Now Have More Choice and Access to Safe and Convenient Financial Services Purchase, N.Y., and Englewood, Colo., Nov. 29, 2011 – MasterCard (NYSE:MA) and The Western Union Company (NYSE:WU) today...

October 18, 2011
Wall Street Reform Hurting Small Banks is a Myth, Says...

Exceprt from The Treasury Notes Blog October 17, 2011 Written by Neal S. Wolin (Deputy Treasury Secretary) In the fall of 2008, a financial crisis of a scale and severity...

July 15, 2011
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...

July 15, 2011
Dealing with Durbin

Durbin Down UnderAs financial institutions grapple with the impending regulation of debit card interchange fees it is worth taking a look at what happened in Australia. Durbin, Debit, and Financial...

July 13, 2011
Deal or No Deal? Foursquare Hopes Users “Buy Into” Offers...

Mobile “check-in” platform foursquare announced Monday on its blog that foursquare Specials will begin featuring this week discounted vouchers from five daily deals sites: “LivingSocial, with their handpicked experiences that...