Visa

1570 results about this entity

Period: 26 Feb 2008 - 13 Feb 2025

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.

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.