Thursday, September 11, 2008

Leading Payment Card Research Firm Adds CardQue and Diamond+ Services

NAPLES, Fla., Sep 10, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- CardWeb.com(R), the leading provider of news, data, and research services to credit card, debit card and payment card executives worldwide since 1986, today announced the addition of a new comprehensive "Diamond+" level of service including CardQue(TM).
CardWeb.com(R) pioneered the first daily news service for the payment card industry in 1995 when the Company launched its Web site. The new CardQue(TM) service will offer CardWeb.com(R)'s top clients instant online access to breaking raw news and fresh proprietary data before it appears in the widely distributed daily CardFlash(R) and CardFlash International(R) publications.
CardWeb.com(R) also announced a new "Diamond+" service that includes single, company wide custom password access to CardFlash(R), CardFlash International(R), CardData(R), CardWatch(R), CardExecs(TM), CardPixes(TM), and CardQue(TM) plus free inclusion in CardResource(TM), a 40% discount on special research projects, site advertising and private consulting as well as deeply discounted or complimentary access to payment card industry events via CardConferences(TM).
CardWeb.com(R) services include: CardFlash(R) (daily payment card news with more than 36,000 documents posted since 1995); CardFlash International(R) (weekly international payment card news with more than an 8,000 document archive); CardData(R) (monthly and quarterly payment card industry financial surveillance with more than 100,000 data points); CardWatch(R) (payment card marketing intelligence with more than 10,000 documents and exhibits); CardExecs(TM) (individual movers and shakers of the payment card industry with nearly 2,000 bios); CardPixes(TM) (payment card form and function with more than 4,000 product pictures and descriptions); CardResource(TM) (payment card vendor network of hundreds of top providers); CardConferences(TM) (calendar of dozens of payment card events) and CardQue(TM) (breaking news and data).
Robert McKinley, founder and chief executive of CardWeb.com(R) notes that Visa(R), MasterCard(R), American Express(R), and Discover(R) are now publicly-traded companies, helping to dissipate the fog surrounding the payment card industry. McKinley says his firm has long cut through the clutter and misinformation, providing an "edge" to thousands of financial institutions worldwide with the best intelligence and proprietary surveillance on competitors. "We are entering a new age of competition in the payment services business wherein consumers can pay with any device, not just cards," says McKinley "and CardWeb.com(R) services, which have never been replicated in more than 20 years, are poised to take clients to this advanced playing field with a 360 degree view of the New Payments World."
CardWeb.com(R), also announced special anniversary offers to new and existing subscribers including a 5% discount to all clients using a credit card, debit card or wire payment through October 15th. Additionally, purchasers of single user subscriptions to CardFlash(R) can add a second user for only $1 through October 31st.

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