1542 results about this entity
Period: 26 Feb 2008 - 18 Nov 2024
News
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.
19 August 2008
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.
11 August 2008
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.
01 August 2008
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.
31 July 2008
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.
21 July 2008
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.
17 July 2008
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 is migrating its transaction network onto BT's IP-based 21CN Global Network under a five year managed services deal.
15 July 2008
Card network Visa is migrating its payWave contactless payments platform to a global specification that is based on the international EMV standard.
02 July 2008
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.
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.
27 June 2008
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.
25 June 2008
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