Archive for February, 2008
Visa’s IPO Could Change Everything
Visa Inc.’s long-awaited initial public offering could be Wall Street’s “big show” of the year, but should individual investors try to get in line and buy a ticket? Market watchers have been answering with a resounding, “Maybe.”
San Francisco-based Visa, as the world’s largest processor of credit and debit cards, is a dominating player in one [...]
Ingenico Makes Offer to Buy Hypercom
Ingenico, the French leaders of merchant payment service systems and credit card point of sale terminal manufacturers, have made a formal offering to buy the Hypercom corporation, the US-based manufacturers – also – of point of sale terminals.
Along with VeriFone, the absolute biggest manufacturers of POS terminals, such as the Tranz 460 and Omni 3750, [...]
