Getting a Cuban journalist's visa is a great deal more complicated than I had been led to believe. It was a costly, embarrassing and extremely painful lesson, but here's what I learned.
Patrice Peyret | Posted 11.23.2009 | Business
Given the misdeeds of the banking industry, the financial services sector could make huge improvements simply by focusing on serving the ill-served with better, faster and cheaper products.
Nelson Montana | Posted 10.29.2009 | Business
The way it stands with credit card companies these days, you might be better off dealing with loan sharks. At least they'll warn you before breaking your legs. The banks sneak up behind you and do it.
Gary Shapiro | Posted 10.06.2009 | Business
We make our trade show a world-class event, but our nation's visa policies work against us in attracting the world to our country.
nytimes.com | ANDREW MARTIN | Posted 10.06.2009 | Business
For many people who do not have bank accounts, or cannot get a credit card, the appeal is irresistible, making the reloadable cards among the consumer...
Robert Siciliano | Posted 11.09.2009 | Business
Skimming can occur in a few different ways. The most common is when a store clerk takes your card and runs it through a device that copies the information from the magnetic strip.
Diane Francis | Posted 09.11.2009 | World
The Three Amigos Summit which just ended -- U.S., Canada and Mexico -- is the private gathering of North America's dysfunctional family.
AP | MARK JEWELL | Posted 08.29.2009 | Business
BOSTON — Visa Inc. on Wednesday said its fiscal third-quarter profit jumped nearly 73 percent, as recent cost-cutting helped offset declining pa...
minyanville.com | Scott Reeves | Posted 08.07.2009 | Business
It's difficult to rent a car or buy a plane ticket without a major credit card like Visa (V), MasterCard (MA), or American Express (AXP)....
The New York Times | Posted 08.06.2009 | Politics
When the 43-year-old man died in a New Jersey immigration jail in 2005, the very fact seemed to fall into a black hole. Although a fellow inmate scraw...
Ina Pinkney | Posted 06.20.2009 | Chicago
I propose a new way of thinking about transactions that is based on paying cash as a bridge to connect human beings in relationships of service.
Carine Fabius | Posted 06.19.2009 | Business
Let's start using debit cards and cash as much as we can to help f*#@! the credit card companies.
Daisy Whitney | Posted 06.17.2009 | Media
As it continues to mine new advertising models, YouTube said VISA has currently bought out the new "click to buy" ad option on YouTube.
Rick Horowitz | Posted 05.25.2009 | Business
Wasn't the government shoveling billions of dollars at these very same banks to help them? And to pick this moment to stick it to the people with higher interest rates, and lower credit limits, and hidden fees?
HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 04.06.2009 | Politics
In a 2004 Newsweek interview, Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan said he turned down "heavy, heavy money" to license his band's hit song, "Today,...
Huffington Post | Julie Satow | Posted 04.02.2009 | Business
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Visa is changing its "Life Takes Visa" advertising slogan. Its new $140 million ad campaign's slogan is "Mor...
New York Times | ERIC DASH and BRAD STONE | Posted 02.21.2009 | Business
Heartland Payment Systems, a major payment processing company, disclosed a data breach on Monday that potentially exposed tens of millions of cred...
Danny Groner | Posted 12.18.2008 | Media
Both the media and President-elect Obama's strategists have worked -- hopefully independently -- to transform the man into a brand
Tom Doctoroff | Posted 09.24.2008 | Business
As the XXIX Olympiad in Beijing has come to a close, all eyes are on return on investment. Were the millions of dollars forked out by both international and local brands worth it?
Reuters | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
Visa Inc, the world's largest credit card network, on Tuesday raised $17.9 billion in an initial public offering, the largest-ever U.S. IPO. San Fran...
Columbia Journalism Review | Dean Starkman | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
One of the paradoxes of the business press is that while everyone should read it, since we all live in the economy, not everyone does. In fact, most p...
Huffington Post | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
On Monday, Visa announced that it was looking to raise $19 billion from its initial public offering (IPO), which would make it the largest in U.S. his...
AP | MADLEN READ | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
NEW YORK — Stocks are shaky, credit is tight, the economy may be tipping into a recession. Not the best of times to be going to the markets for ...
AP | Michael Liedtke | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
Visa Inc. will pay American Express Co. up to $2.25 billion to settle a lawsuit alleging Visa illegally stifled competition to protect its position as...
Wall Street Journal | Kris Maher | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
Wondering what to give your aunt this Christmas? How about paying for her next trip to the chiropractor? Pittsburgh health insurer Highmark Inc. is s...
Tracy L. Barnett | Posted 12.01.2009 | World