Visa

1502 results about this entity

Period: 26 Feb 2008 - 13 Aug 2024

Visa Europe and Monitise team on mobile payments

Visa Europe has inked a deal with Monitise that will see the pair hawk mobile payment services to its member banks.

Contactless iPhone: Hype or harbinger of things to come?

With the hype building ahead of Apple's widely expected step into contactless payments through the upcoming iPhone 5, IDC Financial Insights analyst Aaron McPherson has moved to dampen over-excited expectations.

UK police arrest five over WikiLeaks-related Anonymous Web attacks

UK police have arrested five people in connection with the recent spate of DDoS attacks on Web sites belonging to Mastercard, Visa and PayPal, among others, in support of the WikiLeaks cause.

Visa Europe partners Wireless Dynamics on contactless iPhone payments

Visa Europe has teamed with NFC specialist Wireless Dynamics on a system that turns iPhones into contactless mobile payments systems.

Black cabs make journey to contactless payments

Over 80 of London's iconic black taxi cabs are to be equipped with new contactless card terminals, enabling customers to pay their fare with a tap of the card.

Visa and MasterCard shares slide as Fed calls for debit card fees cut

Shares in Visa and MasterCard tumbled yesterday after the Federal Reserve Board proposed a 12 cent per transaction cap on debit card interchange fees.

Canadian competition watchdog targets Visa and MasterCard

Canada's Competition Bureau has taken aim at Visa and MasterCard, accusing the firms of "anti-competitive" credit card rules that hurt merchants and customers.

WikiLeaks: Visa.com latest Operation Payback victim

Visa.com has become the latest victim of a group of activists calling themselves Anonymous who have taken down the site as retaliation for the card company's decision to cut off payments to whistle-blowing outfit WikiLeaks.

WikiLeaks: US lobbied Russia for MasterCard and Visa

US officials lobbied Russia this year on behalf of MasterCard and Visa over concerns that planned legislation for a national payment card system would "disadvantage" American businesses, according to a cable released by WikiLeaks.

Europe drops Visa antitrust probe after interchange agreement

The EC has abandoned antitrust charges against Visa Europe after reaching a settlement that will see multilateral interchange fees (MIFs) for debit card payments tumble.

WikiLeaks: Hackers humble MasterCard; IT firm threatens to sue Visa Europe

MasterCard's Web site is offline after a suspected attack from hackers in retaliation for the card company's decision to cut off payments to whistle-blowing outfit WikiLeaks. The attacks appear to have also hit the MasterCard SecureCode service, disrupting potentially millions of online transactions.

Visa and MasterCard cut off payments to WikiLeaks; Assange remanded in custody

The persecution of the WikiLeaks whistle-blowing Website continues, as founder Julian Assange is arrested by UK police and MasterCard and Visa join PayPal in cutting off donations to the operation.