Visa

1666 results about this entity

Period: 26 Feb 2008 - 02 Oct 2025

Mass credit card recall over suspected Spanish fraud

More than 100,000 German credit cards have been recalled by banks following a suspected security breech at an unidentified Spanish payment processor.

Visa invests in authentication outfit Emue

Visa Europe has taken a stake in authentication specialist Emue Technologies, with which it has been developing a card that contains a display for generating one-time numeric codes. The size of the investment was not disclosed.

HSBC to pilot combined debit and credit card

HSBC is collaborating with Visa on a six-month internal pilot of a combined multi-application credit and debit card.

Oberthur and Banca Popolare di Sondrio team on contactless card for students

Oberthur Technologies has teamed with Banca Popolare di Sondrio on a pre-paid contactless Visa card that can also be used for ID and access control by students and staff at two Milanese universities.

Visa opens US data centre; rolls out operating system for processing network

Visa has opened a global data centre in the United States and partnered IBM to develop a new operating system to underpin its VisaNet transaction processing network.

Plastic fantastic goes on display at Cartes

Improvements in online banking security, prototypes for 'ultra-mobile' m-payments, contactless and eco card initiatives are among the new technologies on show at the annual Cartes & IDentification event in Paris which opens Monday.

Visa Australia to phase out signature cards by 2013

Visa has stepped up its migration to chip and PIN cards in Australia and will ban signature transactions by April 2013.

National Bank of Kuwait launches contactless m-payments trial

National Bank of Kuwait (NBK), Visa, telco Zain and fintech vendor ViVOtech have teamed on a six month long near field communication-based mobile payments pilot.

Canada plans payment card code of conduct

Canada's finance minister Jim Flaherty is preparing to introduce a voluntary code of conduct covering the credit and debit card market as the country gets ready for US giants Visa and MasterCard to cross the border.

Mobile debit payments go on trial in Italy

Italy's Credito Valtellinese is to conduct the first European trial of Visa's V Pay contactless debit product using Nokia mobile phones.

7-Eleven collects 1.6m signatures backing interchange legislation

US retail giant 7-Eleven has collected more than 1.6 million signatures from customers calling for Congress to pass legislation tackling "unfair" credit card interchange fees.

Hungary fines Visa, MasterCard and banks over interchange fees

Visa, MasterCard and seven of the biggest banks in Hungary have been fined a total of $10.42 million by the country's competition authority for running an interchange fee cartel.