Visa

1678 results about this entity

Period: 26 Feb 2008 - 06 Nov 2025

Square poaches Visa CMO to lead customer acquisition

Square has poached the chief marketing officer of Visa Inc., Kevin Burke, to head up 'customer acquisition' across the company's portfolio of payments products.

Russia's National Payment System gears up for pilot

Several Russian banks, including some subject to Western sanctions, will next week begin testing the country's new card payments system, designed to take on Visa and MasterCard.

Monitise gets £49.2 million boost from Santander, Telefonica and IBM

Santander, Telefonica and MasterCard are to invest £49.2 million in Monitise, providing a welcome boost to the London-based mobile money outfit after Visa decided to sell off its stake in the company.

Discover fires lawsuit alleging anti-competitive practices at Visa

Discover has filed a lawsuit accusing rival card scheme Visa of anti-competitve practices in its debit card business.

Visa Inc frets over $10 billion price tag on European brand

Visa Inc says that it may have to find $10 billion to fund the acquisition of Visa Europe should European banks exercise their option to sell the business to its US counterpart.

MasterCard forecasts death of static passwords with 3DS 2.0

MasterCard says a forthcoming wholesale upgrade of the 3DSecure protocol for authenticating online transactions will pave the way for the introduction of more secure biometric and token-based prompts and the ultimate eradication of static passwords.

US Bank brings Visa corporate payment service to Europe

U.S. Bank is expanding its card-based and cardless corporate payment solutions to Europe. In partnership with Visa, the bank will be the first in Europe to offer Visa Payables Automation, Visa’s paperless electronic payment service that replaces checks, eliminates tedious processing work and can improve an organization’s cash flow by extending credit by more than seven weeks. The bank will also begin offering corporate purchasing cards in Europe.

Visa and MasterCard bow to Canadian pressure for lower interchange fees

Visa and MasterCard have finally caved in to pressure from Canadian competition authorities and agreed to set a 1.5% ceiling on interchange rates in the country for the next five years.

Money20/20: Visa and Citi promise to open up to developers

Two of the world's biggest financial services firms, Visa and Citi, have promised to ditch their insular approach and open up their platforms to partners.

Visa to recruit 1000 technologists for new Bangalore development centre

Visa is to open a new technology centre in Bangalore, India, next year with the aim of recruiting 1000 staff to work on APIs and software development kits by 2017.

China to end UnionPay card clearing monopoly

China is finally preparing to put an end to China UnionPay's monopoly on clearing bank card transactions in a move that could open up a huge market to Visa and MasterCard.

Half of US POS terminals to accept chip cards by end of 2015

Nearly half of US merchant terminals will accept EMV chip card payments by the end of next year, according to a trade body set up to push the migration from magstripe plastic.