Visa

1638 results about this entity

Period: 26 Feb 2008 - 14 Jul 2025

EC accepts Visa Europe credit card fee cap proposal

The EC has accepted Visa Europe's promise to cap its multilateral interchange fees (MIFs) for cross-border credit card payments at 0.3%.

Visa at Mobile World Congress

Mary Carol Harris, director of mobile at Visa discusses where the firm is focusing in mobile payments, what the industry has achieved so far, and ambitions for 2014.

MEPs back caps on card fees across the EU

The fees that banks charge retailers for processing shoppers' payments should be capped, Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee MEPs decided in a vote on Thursday.

Visa and MasterCard to cut ties binding banks and telcos via Host Card Emulation

Visa and MasterCard have announced support for Host Card Emulation, a cloud-based mechanism for hosting NFC applications outside the Secure Element that effectively removes the need for bank reliance on telcos in implementing mobile payments.

Orange Cash launches pre-paid mobile app in France

Wireless operator Orange has commercially launched a pre-paid mobile money service in Caen and Strasbourg, two of the cities with the highest use of contactless payments in France.

Wagamama signs for V.me by Visa: MasterCard's MasterPass arrives in Spain

Pan-Asian restaurant chain wagamama is to begin taking online payments in the UK using the V.me by Visa digital wallet service.

GCHQ launched DDoS attack against Anonymous members

British spy agency GCHQ ran denial-of-service attacks against chat rooms in a bid to disrupt efforts by the Anonymous and LulzSec collective to run their own DDoS campaigns against firms including PayPal and Visa, documents taken by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden reveal.

Monitise and Visa: Convergence is the future

Monitise CEO Al Lukies and Visa Europe's Chief Commercial Officer Steve Perry discuss the partnership between the two firms and convergence as a way of delivering mobile wallets and digital payments.

Europe's largest department store group goes contactless

Spanish department store group El Corte Inglés has installed thousands of contactless terminals in its shopping centres, enabling customers to make payments with a tap of their cards or mobile phones.

E-commerce, mobile and contactless driving growth at Visa Europe

Visa Europe says contactless payments uptake is exceeding expectations, with the chip card technology now available in twice as many countries as this time last year, while transactions have nearly tripled and terminals almost doubled.

EMVCo to hammer out specifications for tokens at the digital checkout

The card scheme-owned EMVCo standards body is beginning work on specifications for the use of digital tokens - rather than account numbers - for online and mobile transactions.

Retailers file interchange settlement appeal

The National Retail Federation has filed an appeal of the $5.7 billion settlement with Visa and MasterCard over credit card swipe fees green-lighted by a judge last month.