American Express Bank / Discover Card / Gould / Allstate Enterprises / Capital One HSBC Bank Providian Wells Fargo U.S. Bancorp / UBS / MasterCard International / MasterCard Inc. / Morgan Stanley / Acquiring Bank Monthly / Morgan Chase Citigroup MBNA America Bank / American Express / America Capital One HSBC Bank Providian / U.S. Transaction Volume Top Bank Credit / General Electric Company / WalMart / Safeway Inc. / Sears / Roebuck and Co. / Wal-Mart Stores Inc. / Issuing Bank Benefits / GE Consumer Finance / MBNA Corporation / Providian National Bank / Greenwood Trust / Pulse / Aite Group / MBNA America Bank / HSN / Discover / Dean Witter / Acquiring Bank Card / Debitman Card Inc. / Visa U.S.A. Inc. / Washington Mutual Inc. / Hibernia Corporation / Citigroup Inc. / First Data Corporation / Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Co. / Discover Financial Services / Bank of America / American Express Company / FDIC BANKING REVIEW Bank Name / Providian Financial Corporation / Capital One Financial Corporation / Issuing Bank / Credit Card Networks / USAA Federal Savings Bank / /
Continent
North America / /
Country
Australia / United Kingdom / Israel / Germany / United States / /
Currency
USD / /
Event
M&A / Legal Issues / Business Partnership / /
Facility
Interchange Fees The / /
IndustryTerm
interstate banking restrictions / owned subsidiary / networks / payment network / bank members / similar products / debit network / active bank licensees / bank fee / card bank / card networks / multiissuer network / monoline bank / card association network / large network / bank / Internet-accessible systems / telecommunications / Online Debit / higher processing fees / card network / travel expenses / payment card networks / debit card transaction processing / card banks / card product / nonbank bank / payment systems / data processing technology / merchant processing / investment bank / card issuer networks / outsourcing services / retail establishments / debit product / consolidated rewards program / /
NaturalFeature
West Coast / /
Organization
Diner's Club / Pulse EFT Association / Division of Insurance and Research / Credit Card Purchase Card Association / Card Association / U.S. Supreme Court / U.S. Department of Justice / Diners Club / US Federal Reserve / European Union / Federal Reserve Board / Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation / FDIC / /
Person
Douglas Akers / Source / Brian Lamm / Martha Solt / Jay Golter / /
Position
senior economist / clerk / senior financial analyst / Banker / research assistant / financial analyst / major U.S. hotels / /
Overview of Recent Developments in the Credit Card Industry by Douglas Akers, Jay Golter, Brian Lamm, and Martha Solt* Since the 1980s, Visa U.S.A. (Visa) and MasterCard International (MasterCard), the bank-controlled cr