Visa

1641 results about this entity

Period: 26 Feb 2008 - 18 Jul 2025

Microsoft brings contactless payments to Windows 10 phones

Following the lead of Apple, Google and Samsung, Microsoft is bringing contactless payments to Windows 10 mobile phones.

Visa Inc seals buy out of European business

Visa Inc has completed its acquisition of Visa Europe, creating a combined global company serving 17,100 financial institutions and partners, more than 40 million merchant outlets, and 3 billion card accounts worldwide.

Home Depot suit accuses card schemes of putting profits ahead of security in EMV roll out

Home Depot, the US retail chain that saw 56 million accounts hacked in 2014, is suing Visa and MasterCard over their failure to mandate more secure Chip and PIN technology at the checkout during the country's migration to EMV-based payments.

Visa moves to ease EMV chip migration hurdles

Visa Inc. (NYSE:V) today announced a series of initiatives to help accelerate EMV chip migration for merchants. Visa has streamlined its testing requirements, amended and simplified the terminal certification process, and committed to investing further resources and technical expertise in a manner that can reduce timeframes by as much as 50 percent.

Visa certifies Worldline for cloud-based payments

Worldline [Euronext: WLN], the European leader in the payment and transactional services industry, has become the first player to be end-to-end Visa-certified to run in-house its Cloud-based Payments solution.

Visa to bring Apple Pay to cardholders in France and Switzerland

Visa today confirmed that it will offer Visa debit, credit and reloadable prepaid cardholders access to Visa with Apple Pay, as it launches in France and Switzerland in the coming weeks.

Walmart Canada to refuse Visa credit cards as interchange row heats up

The turbulent relationship between North America's largest retail supermarket chain and the card schemes has reached a new nadir, with a decision by Walmart to refuse to accept Visa credit cards in its 370 stores across Canada.

ID TECH releases UniPay III for mobile payments

ID TECH, a leading manufacturer of secure payment solutions, mobile payment, point of sale peripherals, and digital signage, has announced that the UniPay™ III has been released to production.

China opens up to Visa and MasterCard

China is finally preparing to open up its huge payments card market to foreign firms such as Visa and MasterCard.

Visa launches issuer-branded digital commerce app

Visa has signed up more than 40 financial institutions to its new issuer-branded digital commerce app, which lets firms offer their customers a host of card management services.

Retailers flag PCI anti-trust concerns with FTC

US retailers are calling on the Federal Trade Commission to investigate the activities of the Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council ahead of a possible move by the watchdog to adopt the Council's PCI DSS protocols as an example of best industry practice.

Visa Inc gets green light from EC for Visa Europe acquisition

Visa Inc is expected to seal its takeover of Visa Europe by the end of the month, after getting full regulatory approval from the European Commission.