Mastercard World Cup deal wobbles
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Mastercard's sponsorship of the football World Cup is brought into question after a US court ruling.
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MasterCard  must change within six months the way it sets its fees for processing card transactions or face a daily fine, the European Union's top antitrust watchdog said on Wednesday.
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There was a time when European scouts could find undiscovered talent at the African Cup of Nations for a pittance.  Now, unless your business card reads Chelsea or Barcelona, most players are out of your price range.
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MasterCard Inc.  on Friday reported a higher-than-expected fourth-quarter profit as spending volume jumped, but the credit card company warned that operating margin growth may slow in 2007, and its shares fell as much as 9.9 percent.
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Credit card company MasterCard drew a rebuke at a closed European Commission antitrust hearing last week after claiming incorrectly that Britain had dropped an investigation into its fees, people who were present said.
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Mastercard wins a US lawsuit against Fifa which wanted to end its World Cup sponsorship deal in favour of rival Visa.
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American Express, which fought for years for the right to sign deals with United States banks that issue cards on the Visa and MasterCard networks, said late yesterday that it had won
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International credit card company  MasterCard Inc  may have violated European Union  antitrust rules by restricting competition between banks, the  EU&#039;s top competition authority said on Friday.
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Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson whined a bit recently that the winnerâs prize for the four-tournament FedEx Cup playoff will be inaccessible until the victor is at least 45.
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Malcolm Glazer&#39;s bid for Manchester United isn&#39;t over, despite being turned away by the British soccer club&#39;s board of directors over concerns that his proposed buyout requires too much debt.
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American Express is suing Visa and MasterCard plus eight US banks, claiming anti-competitive tactics kept it out of the market. The litigation is the latest setback for Visa and MasterCard, which last month
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Before Canada and the Czech Republic met in a semifinal of the World Cup of Hockey here on Saturday night, a scalper was asking $150 for tickets that retailed for $275.
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Fifa, football's governing body, is to pay Mastercard $90m to settle a bitter World Cup sponsorship row.
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CBC SPORTS ONLINE - A cheeky card trick has landed soccer superstar David Beckham back at the centre of controversy. FIFA, soccer&#39;s world governing body, isn&#39;t happy about Beckham&#39;s admission that he deliberately
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American Express will receive a payment of about $2.1bn from Visa after it sued the credit card giant.
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Only 850,000 tickets out of 3.2 million seats for the World Cup will be available when sales begin Feb. 1, because tickets must be set aside for sponsors, media, soccer federations and other official partners.
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The European Commission will give  credit card company MasterCard  six months to reconfigure  the fee it sets for processing transactions or face daily  fines, an industry source said on Wednesday.