Latest Visa News: Finextra Research

Visa and MFS Africa team on digital payments

Visa is joining forces with MFS Africa to simplify remittances and expand global e-commerce across Africa.

12 December 2019

Monzo hires Visa's Anil to lead US expansion

UK digital bank Monzo has hired Visa's global head of payment products and platforms, TS Anil, to lead its push into the US.

03 December 2019

/security

Cornèrcard launches biometric credit card

Switzerland's Cornèrcard has teamed up with Gemalto and Visa to launch the country's first credit card featuring a biometric fingerprint reader.

21 November 2019

/retail

Georgian neo bank Space to go global with Visa partnership

Georgian neo bank Space, an app-only offshoot of FTSE 250 TBC Bank, is to expand its international footprint through a partnership agreement with Visa.

14 November 2019

/retail

Visa acquires minority stake in Nigeria's Interswitch

Visa is to acquire a 'significant' minority equity stake in Nigerian payments processor Interswitch in a deal that propels the African firm into Unicorn territory.

12 November 2019

/payments

Visa invests in ultrasonic data transmission firm

Visa has made a strategic investment in Lisnr, an ultrasonic data transmission specialist offering an alternative to NFC and QR code-based mobile payments. The size of the investment has not been disclosed.

05 November 2019

/retail

Kroger ends Visa ban

US supermarket giant Kroger is accepting Visa credit cards at all of its stores again, ending a ban begun more than a year ago in protest at "excessive" interchange fees.

30 October 2019

/retail

Card schemes band together for one-click payments button

American Express, Discover, Mastercard and Visa are rolling out interoperable one-click checkouts at select e-commerce sites across the US, eliminating the laborious and repetitive key-entry of personal account numbers and information when shopping online.

22 October 2019

/crypto

Facebook's Libra project stumbles as more members quit

EBay, Stripe, Visa, Mastercard and Mercado Pago have followed PayPal in quitting Facebook's Libra cryptocurrency association, as the pushback from politicians and regulators gathers pace.

14 October 2019

/payments

Intuit and Visa team on instant deposits for SMEs

Intuit is promising to help small business owners get a grip of their cash flow through a QuickBooks instant deposits feature that taps Visa's real-time push payments technology.

10 October 2019

/regulation

PayPal quits Facebook's Libra project, Visa and Mastercard could follow

Update: Facebook's Libra plans continue to stumble as PayPal quits the digital currency project, with Visa and Mastercard also reconsidering their involvement.

04 October 2019

/retail

Revolut ready to go global through new deal with Visa

Revolut is set to double its global footprint, pushing into 24 new markets thanks to a global deal with Visa.

30 September 2019

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