Visa

1685 results about this entity

Period: 26 Feb 2008 - 27 Nov 2025

Visa Everywhere aims to harness the startup community

Visa has issued a challenge to startups, inviting them to pitch their ideas for ways in which the card giant can market its products and services.

Visa treasury veterans joins Promontory

Richard Laiderman and Alan Weindorf, financial services executives with expertise in payments, currency, and treasury operations, have joined Promontory Financial Group as senior professionals in its San Francisco office.

EU Parliament approves interchange fee caps

The European Parliament has voted overwhelmingly in favour of a bill to cap the interchange fees charged by card schemes for payments using credit and debit cards.

Campaign pushes for US adoption of chip and PIN

A campaign designed to put pressure on US card issuers to embrace chip and PIN, rather than just chip and signature, technology has been launched.

Finland's OP to introduce mobile wallet

OP`s customers will be able to pay for their purchases by mobile phone during the spring. In practice, the payment is done by showing Pivo at the point of sale and moving the phone close to the payment terminal.

Oz telco Optus preps smartwatch payments

Australian telco Optus is planning to launch smartwatches and wristbands that let customers make contactless payments with the flick of a wrist.

Visa to drive in-car commerce with Pizza Hut

Visa is working with Accenture and Pizza Hut to test the use of onboard mobile and online commerce for car drivers.

Visa and Bharti Airtel push mobile money as telcos lead the way in developing markets

Visa is to work with Bharti Airtel to extend its mobile money service to seven markets in Africa, including Gabon, Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, Rwanda, Seychelles and Tanzania.

Visa to buy offers specialist TrialPay

Visa has struck an agreement to acquire American transactional advertising outfit TrialPay. Financial terms of the deal have not been disclosed.

Visa and MasterCard report strong bank uptake for HCE-based mobile payments

Banco do Brazil, PNC Bank and US Bank are set to join the growing band of finacial services firms working with Visa to offer their customers HCE-based contactless mobile payments.

Visa brings tokenisation to Europe; preps P2P/social media payments service

Visa Europe is to launch a tokenisation service customised for the European marketplace in mid-April in a move which would pave the way for the roll out of Apple Pay across the continent.

Visa ramps up tokenisation effort

Visa Inc. (NYSE:V), the global leader in payments, today announced that it is expanding the use of new security technology that replaces the traditional 16-digit Visa account number with a unique series of numbers, helping to prevent exposure of sensitive consumer account information in online and mobile payments.