1502 results about this entity
Period: 26 Feb 2008 - 13 Aug 2024
News
Canadian telco Rogers has filed for a banking license so that it can issue its own credit cards and mobile wallets to its nine million-strong customer base.
07 September 2011
PayPal has hired former Visa executive Rupert Keeley to run its business in Asia pacific.
02 September 2011
China UnionPay has overtaken Visa as the world's largest payments card scheme, according to Retail Banking Research (RBR).
12 August 2011
Technology firms looking to take a slice of the mobile payments pie, such as Apple and Google, still have a long way to go before Americans trust them as much as more traditional players like Visa, according to a survey from Ogilvy & Mather.
10 August 2011
Visa has signalled its determination to push the United States into abandoning mag-stripe cards in favour of EMV chip technology; a move it says will not only improve security but accelerate the adoption of contactless mobile payments.
09 August 2011
Visa has outlined plans to change its fee structure for US merchants, introducing a network participation charge and cutting its variable processing costs.
29 July 2011
Czech Republic capital Prague is the latest city to host a mobile contactless payments pilot, with Komerční banka and Citi customers offered the chance to use their handsets for purchases.
21 July 2011
Isis, the contactless mobile payments venture set up by major US network operators has brought on board Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover.
20 July 2011
The European Commission has set out proposals for tracking terrorist financing, providing a counterweight to the controversial system run by the US.
15 July 2011
WikiLeaks has filed a formal complaint with the European Commission, claiming that Visa and MasterCard are in breach of EU anti-trust laws by blocking donations to the whistle-blowing outfit.
14 July 2011
Visa has succeeded in shutting down a workaround that briefly enabled the re-instatement of credit card payments to whistle-blowing Website WikiLeaks.
08 July 2011
WikiLeaks has announced plans to sue Visa and MasterCard over their refusal to process donations to the whistle-blowing service.
04 July 2011
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