Visa

1542 results about this entity

Period: 26 Feb 2008 - 18 Nov 2024

Visa teams with banks on alert system

Card network Visa is teaming with eight North American banks to pilot an automated alerting system that will notify cardholders of transaction activity via SMS text message and e-mail.

$10m spent on Visa cards on first day of Beijing games

Visa says international tourists visiting Beijing for the Olympics spent nearly US$10 million on Visa credit, debit and pre-paid cards on the opening day of the Games.

PayPal launches pre-paid card in UK

PayPal has launched a reloadable pre-paid Visa card for the UK market that can be used to pay for purchases in traditional retail stores as well as via the Internet.

MasterCard posts Q2 loss on American Express settlement

Shares in MasterCard slumped after the card network posted a $747 million loss for the second quarter due to a $1 billion charge relating to its antitrust settlement with American Express.

ANZ to launch pre-paid Visa payWave card

ANZ Bank will use the upcoming Tri Nations rugby union match between Australia and New Zealand to launch a reloadable pre-paid contactless Visa card.

Merchants win collective bargaining powers over US interchange fees

The US House Judiciary Committee has voted 19-16 in favour of a bitterly contested bill that will allow US merchants to engage in collective bargaining over the interchange fees charged on credit card payments.

ICBC launches China's first dual-interface Visa EMV card

The Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) has begun issuing customers with the country's first dual interface Visa cards for contact-based and contactless payments.

Visa Europe migrates to new BT network

Visa Europe is migrating its transaction network onto BT's IP-based 21CN Global Network under a five year managed services deal.

Visa upgrades payWave contactless spec to EMV standard

Card network Visa is migrating its payWave contactless payments platform to a global specification that is based on the international EMV standard.

Soaring customer satisfaction for French m-payments scheme

A consortium of French banks, telcos and technology vendors that launched a wide-scale contactless mobile payments trial last year is reporting customer satisfaction rates of above 90% for the scheme.

E-commerce booming in Latin America and Caribbean - Visa

Online retail spending by consumers in Latin America and the Caribbean soared 40% in 2007 to hit US$10.9 billion, according to a study commissioned by Visa.

MasterCard pays $1.8bn to settle American Express suit

MasterCard has agreed to pay rival card operator American Express up to $1.8 billion to settle a lawsuit filed in 2004 that accused it of blocking access to the bank-issued card market in the US.