Visa, Inc.(Ipo Paper) by Didier Buka

MasterCard Incorporated is one of the world’s premier credit card processing and money transfer companies in the world. It is the second major payment company in the United States. They focus on making payment transactions safer and beneficial to the society while delivering value through their innovation and execution. MasterCard has three main competitors, Visa at the very top, American Express, and Discover. Visa Inc. has the largest market share of 13.7 percent in the United States with revenue of $12,702 million in 2014. In the same financial year, MasterCard Inc. has recorded total revenue of only $9,473 million and 7.3 percent of total market shares. MasterCard’s SWOT analysis revealed its strength of being the world’s second

First Data Corporation powers the global economy by making people and businesses to purchase products and services easily, quickly and securely, using virtually all types of electronic payments. No matter if a payment is made with a gift card, a credit or debit card, or even a check, First Data always processes the transaction and safely use the power of information in favor of millions of merchants and thousands card issuers distributed among 36 countries, offering them intelligent services and greater awareness of their customers. They also offers a set of solutions to help

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As technology advances over the years, we have experienced and noticed that the trend in how payment are received have shift tremendously. Twenty years ago, check was the preferred way of payment. In today’s world, more and more payments are done by credit cards. Credit card transactions are instance that provides a faster payment method.

In a highly competitive market space, being compliant with PCI standards will make our organization more acceptable in the market, and also help build trust and confidence in our operation among healthcare providers seeking our services. In a constantly evolving threat environment with increased levels of data breaches in recent times, ensuring PCI compliance even though not mandated will help attract customers and would be good return on investment. Along with BAA signed with our clients, being PCI compliant would also ensure extra layer of protection by following the practices suggested by leading payment card brands like Visa, Mastercard, etc. who are constantly looking out for new emerging threats in the industry, and are proactive in incorporating changes to PCI DSS standards to minimize the impact of these new threats. Though complying with standards like PCI doesn’t ensure security, they provide a structure around which organizations can build their information security and assurance program, thereby helping them anticipate and mitigate new risks in the area of storing payment card

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‘’Founded in 1994 the EMV referred to Europay, MasterCard, and Visa, who together provided better card security.’’ (www.thebreif.com) Currently credit card fraud has been at an all time high in the years 2016 and 2017. This activity has skyrocketed since young teens and young adults have the idea of targeting adults and senior citizens, and using someone 's information to buy whatever the scammer desires. “The U.S. is responsible for 47% of the world’s fraud despite only accounting for 24% of total worldwide card volume.’’ (www.nasdaq.com) Credit card fraud has been a big problem, although through new security implementations such as chips and pin systems, the level of security associated with cards has improved. In the future credit card fraud may come to a stop, or at least slow down significantly. With this new security being implemented and new legislation laws credit card offenders may finally be brought to justice.

In this paper the questions regarding a businesses decision to go public will be addressed. Recent changes such as Sarbanes-Oxley governance ruling have had significant impact on the planning and execution of IPO's however, going public still remains the best route to additional capital for a company. We will also take a look at Google's successful rollout of their public offering. However first we need to look at what it takes for a company to go public. In the text of the Fundamentals of Corporate Finance the initial description of IPO succinctly captures the essence of need and subsequent process of an IPO.

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During the past decade, we have undergone enormous changes in the way that we conduct business. ATM check cards, credit cards, and preferred customer cards are the most common buying tools today. Check, or debit, cards are ATM cards that function just like cash. Customers can now make payments with their check cards

The online payment marketplace is experiencing an explosion of innovative ideas, plans, and announcements, which one commentator has likened to a “goat rodeo”, a chaotic situation in which powerful players with different agendas compete with one another for public acceptance, and above all, huge potential revenues. Others liken the payment marketplace to a battle among the four platform titans Apple, Google, Facebook, and Amazon. Each of these titans have their own versions of a future payment system that challenges the other players. And let’s not forget PayPal, the reigning power in alternative online payment, or the credit card companies who process over 70% of online payments, or the

Online payment processing services perform transactions at a much greater speed than manual processing. As well as ensuring error-free computations and faster processing time. Which means

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