The Obama administration could face a political issue when the visa allowing the younger Mr. Bo to remain in the U.S. as a student runs out.

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The work visa issue has been a contentious point for many, many, many years, even going back to Vicente Fox when he was President of Mexico.

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Visa signed a multi-year deal with the State Bank of India to issue Visa debit products across the SBI franchise.

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It is surprising that the Directive is not being leveraged more by the established U.S. players because it grants a license and the authority to issue prepaid Mastercard and VISA products directly after attaining card association membership thereby dramatically lowering the barriers to entry.

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If the second attack, over visas, has been much more successful, it is in part Mr Fischer's own fault: he failed to see that problems with visa regulations, which he considered a lowly bureaucratic issue, could grow into a full-fledged political scandal endangering his political career.

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