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Company announcement/regulation

CMA greenlights Visa's takeover of Plaid

The decision by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) follows a Phase 1 review in which it investigated several possible ways the deal could harm competition.

24 August 2020

Company announcement/payments

Nacha adds Visa to Phixius pilot programme

Nacha today announced that Visa joined a growing list of partners piloting Phixius – a payment-information exchange platform that helps credentialed service providers share and manage electronic payments information, making pre and post payments processing more efficient and secure than current processes.

12 August 2020

News/sustainable

Visa issues green bond, appoints chief sustainability officer

Visa has burnished its environmental credentials, pricing its first green bond offering, totaling $500 million, and appointing Douglas Sabo as its first chief sustainability officer.

12 August 2020

Company announcement/payments

Pakistan's NayaPay joins Visa Fast Track programme

NayaPay has joined the Visa Fintech Fast Track program, speeding up the payment company’s integration process with Visa and enabling NayaPay to leverage the reach, capabilities, and security of the Visa global payments network.

05 August 2020

Company announcement/payments

Visa to offer 9Spokes dashboarding platform to financial institutions and SME customers

9Spokes, a New Zealand-based digital ecosystem that aggregates meaningful data between a business, its apps and banks, and the world’s leader in digital payments, Visa, announced a multi-year global strategic partnership that will enable Visa to offer the 9Spokes dashboarding platform to its financial institution clients and their small business customers.

04 August 2020

Company announcement/payments

Visa and Bank of Abyssinia launch e-commerce acquiring business

Visa, the world leader in digital payments, and Bank of Abyssinia (BoA) have today announced a strategic partnership to drive of e-commerce acquiring through Visa CyberSource payment gateway, therefore becoming a member of Visa’s global payments ecosystem.

04 August 2020

Company announcement/payments

Visa and Moneris expand real-time funds disbursement in Canada

Today, Visa announced a new offering with Moneris Solutions Corporation (“Moneris”), a leading Canadian payment processor, to expand its Real-time[1] Funds disbursement reach in Canada.

30 July 2020

News/payments

Visa and Mastercard hit Wirecard with big fines a decade ago - WSJ

Visa and Mastercard both slapped eight figure fines on Wirecard years before the German payments processor's recent spectacular collapse in the face of an accounting scandal, according to the Wall Street Journal.

28 July 2020

News/sustainable

Mastercard launches sustainable card programme

Mastercard is launching a sustainable card programme to get its card issuers to switch to greener alternatives such as recycled, biodegradable and ocean plastics.

22 July 2020

News/payments

Visa pilots instalment payments

Visa is entering the fast-growing instalment payments arena, working with a host of partners on pilots in the US.

14 July 2020

News/payments

Card schemes to take Click to Pay standard global

American Express, Visa, Mastercard and Discover are to roll out the online 'Click to Pay' standard globally, having signed up 10,000 merchants in the US since launch in 2019.

08 July 2020

News/payments

Eurozone banks to take on Visa and Mastercard with home-grown payments platform

Sixteen major Eurozone banks have come together to start the implementation of a new payment system to take on the might of Visa and Mastercard and the threat posed by Chinese and US Big Tech firms.

02 July 2020