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Finn AI boosts chatbot through Visa developer platform

Canadian virtual assistant startup Finn AI is tapping Visa's developer platform to expand its conversational banking chatbot's capabilities.

15 June 2018

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UK politicians round on Visa over breakdown

UK politicians are calling Visa to account for the hardware failure on Friday that left people across the UK and Europe unable to use their cards to pay for goods and services.

05 June 2018

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Visa launches $100 million venture fund; introduces fast track programme for startups

Visa in Europe has launched a $100 venture investment fund and a fast track programme for onboarding fintech startups to the network.

04 June 2018

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Visa outage hits payments across Europe

Card network Visa has confirmed that it is suffering a "service disruption" in Europe, leaving shoppers unable to use their cards at the point-of-sale.

01 June 2018

Company announcement

Payworks wins CyberSource gig with Visa

Payment technology company, Payworks, announced today its collaboration with Visa to integrate Payworks’ payment technology into the CyberSource payment management platform to enable an integrated Point of Sale solution and offer omnichannel payment processing capabilities to merchants worldwide.

29 May 2018

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Visa invests in Latin American mobile payments outfit YellowPepper

Visa has made a strategic investment in YellowPepper in an effort to push the adoption of mobile payments and tokenisation in Latin America and the Caribbean.

24 May 2018

Company announcement

Visa and PayPal extend collaboration pact to Canada

Visa (NYSE: V) and PayPal (Nasdaq: PYPL) today announced an extension of their strategic partnership to Canada that will see them work collaboratively to accelerate the adoption of secure, reliable and convenient digital and mobile payments for consumers and merchants in Canada.

10 May 2018

Company announcement

Visa’s Craig McClure joins The Chargeback Company

The Chargeback Company, known as Chargebacks911 in the United States, announced today that it has hired chargeback expert Craig McClure from Visa.

09 May 2018

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CMSPI raises EC complaint over Visa fee changes

Payments consultancy CMSPI is raising a complaint with the European Commission over changes Visa is making to its fees, claiming the card scheme's actions could cost small businesses in Europe more than EUR2 billion a year.

04 May 2018

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Major card schemes zero in on single 'buy' button for online commerce

Major card schemes are rallying around the the new EMVCo Secure Remote Commerce (SRC) framework in a bid to create a ubiquitous online shopping technology standard backed by token-only storage of payment details.

19 April 2018

Company announcement

Visa takes Everywhere Initiative to Nairobi Tech Week

Visa has announced that it will be opening up the first Visa Everywhere Initiative for Sub Saharan Africa to young developers at this year’s Nairobi Tech Week (NTW) taking place from April 19- 21.

17 April 2018

Company announcement

Areeba to pilot fingerprint payment cards

Digital security world leader Gemalto and biometric technology company Zwipe have partnered with areeba, a financial and payment technology company in the Middle East and Africa, with the support of Unilux Cards, to pilot the first battery-less dual interface biometric payment card (chip- and contactless-enabled) in the Middle East with Visa.

16 April 2018