Visa

1640 results about this entity

Period: 26 Feb 2008 - 17 Jul 2025

Visa shows off Olympics NFC m-payments app

Visa and Samsung will next week unveil their Olympic and Paralympic Games contactless mobile payments app.

Visa and Monitise partner HDFC on Indian mobile money

Visa and Monitise have turned their attentions to the Indian market, signing a deal with the country's second largest private bank, HDFC, to introduce mobile money services nationwide.

Visa launches mobile services for US financial institutions

Visa has teamed up with Monitise to upgrade its issuer processing platform, enabling US financial institutions to offer their customers a range of mobile services.

Visa joins $40m TrialPay funding round

Transactional advertising outfit TrialPay has secured $40 million in a funding round joined by payments giant Visa.

MasterCard joins push for US EMV switch

Following the lead of rival Visa, MasterCard has set out plans to push the United States into abandoning mag-stripe cards in favour of EMV chip technology.

Austria's RBI preps mobile NFC roll out

Austria's Raiffeisen Bank International (RBI) is preparing to introduce a contactless mobile payments service.

Visa: US EMV move doesn't mean chip and PIN

Following its decision last year to push the adoption of EMV in the United States, Visa has moved to clarify that this does not mean the introduction of chip and PIN cards.

Visa Europe hails UK e-commerce spending growth; sets sights on mobile

Around £1 in every £3 in the UK was spent on Visa cards in 2011, with growth in debit and e-commerce payments fuelling a strong year for the European card scheme, which is now training its sights on mobile services.

La Caixa turns Barcelona contactless

La Caixa has partnered with Visa Europe on a major contactless payments push in Barcelona, rolling out cards, point-of-sale terminals and ATMs featuring the technology across the city.

PCI security standards in the dock

A legal challenge to the payment card industry's PCI security standards is brewing in the US, as a Utah-based restaurant chain cries foul over the apparently "arbitrary" nature of the system and the level of fines imposed by Visa and MasterCard following an alleged breach of security.

UK contactless payments momentum gathers pace

Nearly three quarters of British contactless users think that the technology will eventually become more commonplace than cash and 84% see cards as just a stepping stone to mobile NFC payments, according to a survey from Visa Europe.

Visa Europe probes potential processor security breach

Visa Europe is investigating a possible data breach at an Eastern European payment processor that may have hit thousands of cardholders.