First Data Corp. held one of its semi-annual investor conferences yesterday in Denver focused on its international businesses. The slides from the conference presentation (PPT) are available online.

Coinbridge, a new point of payment consulting, integration and research firm has just launched its new web site.

Coinbridge was founded by Ryan Donahue. A founding member of the PayPal design and user research group, Donahue was instrumental in the strategic design of PayPal's merchant services and played a key role in defining the customer experience for many of PayPal's most successful products from 2000-2005.

The Globe and Mail carries a Bloomberg report on MasterCard's IPO plans.

The $5-billion valuation gives Purchase, N.Y.-based MasterCard a price-to-earnings multiple of 11.7 times, similar to that of Capital One Financial Corp. The sale may push Visa International Service Association, the largest card company, to consider an IPO that could value it at triple MasterCard, said David Robertson, publisher of Nilson Report, a credit card newsletter.

"Now that there's a firm valuation to MasterCard, investment bankers and others are going to be pressuring Visa to make a similar move," Mr. Robertson said. "There's tremendous unrealized value in Visa."

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