Visa

1502 results about this entity

Period: 26 Feb 2008 - 13 Aug 2024

Card firms press US to file WTO complaint on access to China - Bloomberg

Card companies, including MasterCard and Visa, have approached the US government about filing a WTO trade complaint against China for cutting them out of the country's fast-growing, $723 billion, payment processing market, according to Bloomberg.

Visa to phase out signature cards in New Zealand by 2012

Visa says all credit cards issued in New Zealand will be Chip and PIN from next month, with signature-based transactions at the point-of-sale phased out by 2012.

Wells Fargo and Visa introduce text alert system

Wells Fargo and Visa are introducing an automated alerting system that will notify credit card customers of transaction activity via SMS text message and e-mail.

Visa preps online shopping plug-in to take on Web giants

Visa has set a spring launch date for Rightcliq, an online shopping tool that provides users with a centralised location to store and manage their e-commerce activity in a bid to make it easier and safer.

Barclays business customers to get contactless as standard

Barclays says that from March all new and reissued Visa debit cards for business customers will come with contactless technology as standard.

UK contactless limit upped to £15

The maximum limit for contactless credit and debit card payments in the UK has been increased from £10 to £15.

Visa launches virtual debit card programme in Japan

Visa has partnered Japan Net Bank (JNB) on the country's first virtual debit card programme for online merchant payments.

Visa hires GSMA man Bill Gajda to head mobile business

Card giant Visa has hired Bill Gajda, chief commercial officer at global wireless trade group GSMA, to head up its mobile operations.

Contactless m-payments trialled at Mobile World Congress

NFC-enabled handsets are being handed out to delegates at this year's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona for a contactless payments trial.

RBC goes contactless for Vancouver Olympics

Canada's RBC Royal Bank is set to introduce a pre-paid Visa contactless card shaped like a Coca-Cola bottle at the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games.

PKO Bank Polski upgrades 6m cards to contactless

Poland's PKO Bank Polski is upgrading six million customer Visa debit cards to contactless chip and PIN, according to local press reports.

Heartland agrees $60m Visa settlement over data breach

Heartland Payment Systems will pay up to $60 million to issuers of Visa-branded credit and debit cards affected by the data breach suffered at the New Jersey-based payments processor in 2008.