Visa

1649 results about this entity

Period: 26 Feb 2008 - 18 Aug 2025

Visa launches mobile location service to cut declined card payments

In an effort to cut unnecessary purchase declines, Visa is set to start identifying cardholders when they make purchases on their travels through mobile phone geo-location data.

Contactless payments arrive on Coronation Street

Visa Europe has signed a six-figure product placement deal with British television network ITV that will see contactless payments get high profile outings on prime-time soaps Coronation Street and Emmerdale.

Visa Europe to spend EUR200 million on digital payment technologies

Visa Europe is to invest more than EUR200 million in new payment technologies to accelerate the growth of digital payments after reporting record transaction volumes for 2014.

MasterCard agrees Russian processing deal

MasterCard has signed a deal to transfer domestic Russian transaction processing to the country's new national payments system.

Polish banks embrace HCE for mobile payments drive

Nine Polish banks have confirmed plans to commercially launch mobile contactless payments using Visa's Host Card Emulation technology from early next year.

Google sues Visa and MasterCard over interchange fees

Google is suing Visa and MasterCard over the card giants' interchange fees, alleging that they violated federal antitrust law.

Canadians get bitcoin option for credit card payments

Founded by self-proclaimed bitcoin enthusiast, Darwin Ramon, the startup, YesToBitcoins.com now allows users to settle payments on all Canadian credit cards.

Square poaches Visa CMO to lead customer acquisition

Square has poached the chief marketing officer of Visa Inc., Kevin Burke, to head up 'customer acquisition' across the company's portfolio of payments products.

Russia's National Payment System gears up for pilot

Several Russian banks, including some subject to Western sanctions, will next week begin testing the country's new card payments system, designed to take on Visa and MasterCard.

Monitise gets £49.2 million boost from Santander, Telefonica and IBM

Santander, Telefonica and MasterCard are to invest £49.2 million in Monitise, providing a welcome boost to the London-based mobile money outfit after Visa decided to sell off its stake in the company.

Discover fires lawsuit alleging anti-competitive practices at Visa

Discover has filed a lawsuit accusing rival card scheme Visa of anti-competitve practices in its debit card business.

Visa Inc frets over $10 billion price tag on European brand

Visa Inc says that it may have to find $10 billion to fund the acquisition of Visa Europe should European banks exercise their option to sell the business to its US counterpart.