Visa

1502 results about this entity

Period: 26 Feb 2008 - 13 Aug 2024

Visa contactless dumped by US retail giant Best Buy

US merchant Best Buy has stopped accepting Visa payWave contactless payments at its 1000 stores in protest at the card giant's fee structure, according to retail technology blog StorefrontBacktalk.

Morgan Stanley wins ruling in $800m Discover case

Morgan Stanley has won a ruling in its lawsuit against Discover Financial Services that could see the card company forced to hand over hundreds of millions of dollars to its former owner.

Monitise prepares for growth with new investment and partnerships

Mobile money outfit Monitise has raised £15.8 million in funding and struck two new partnerships it hopes will help build its presence in the retail sector and Asia Pacific. The company also says it is on track to meet full year revenue expectations after record consumer uptake.

US mobile finance approaches tipping point - research

Mobile phone-based financial services are approaching a tipping point in the US and banks that fail to act risk losing customers to more aggressive competitors, according to research from Mercatus.

Mass credit card recall over suspected Spanish fraud

More than 100,000 German credit cards have been recalled by banks following a suspected security breech at an unidentified Spanish payment processor.

Visa invests in authentication outfit Emue

Visa Europe has taken a stake in authentication specialist Emue Technologies, with which it has been developing a card that contains a display for generating one-time numeric codes. The size of the investment was not disclosed.

HSBC to pilot combined debit and credit card

HSBC is collaborating with Visa on a six-month internal pilot of a combined multi-application credit and debit card.

Oberthur and Banca Popolare di Sondrio team on contactless card for students

Oberthur Technologies has teamed with Banca Popolare di Sondrio on a pre-paid contactless Visa card that can also be used for ID and access control by students and staff at two Milanese universities.

Visa opens US data centre; rolls out operating system for processing network

Visa has opened a global data centre in the United States and partnered IBM to develop a new operating system to underpin its VisaNet transaction processing network.

Plastic fantastic goes on display at Cartes

Improvements in online banking security, prototypes for 'ultra-mobile' m-payments, contactless and eco card initiatives are among the new technologies on show at the annual Cartes & IDentification event in Paris which opens Monday.

Visa Australia to phase out signature cards by 2013

Visa has stepped up its migration to chip and PIN cards in Australia and will ban signature transactions by April 2013.

National Bank of Kuwait launches contactless m-payments trial

National Bank of Kuwait (NBK), Visa, telco Zain and fintech vendor ViVOtech have teamed on a six month long near field communication-based mobile payments pilot.