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Mastercard launches sustainable card programme

Mastercard is launching a sustainable card programme to get its card issuers to switch to greener alternatives such as recycled, biodegradable and ocean plastics.

22 July 2020

News/payments

Visa pilots instalment payments

Visa is entering the fast-growing instalment payments arena, working with a host of partners on pilots in the US.

14 July 2020

News/payments

Card schemes to take Click to Pay standard global

American Express, Visa, Mastercard and Discover are to roll out the online 'Click to Pay' standard globally, having signed up 10,000 merchants in the US since launch in 2019.

08 July 2020

News/payments

Eurozone banks to take on Visa and Mastercard with home-grown payments platform

Sixteen major Eurozone banks have come together to start the implementation of a new payment system to take on the might of Visa and Mastercard and the threat posed by Chinese and US Big Tech firms.

02 July 2020

Company announcement/payments

Mamo Pay joins Visa Fintech Fast Track programme

Mamo Pay, the MENA region’s highly anticipated peer-to-peer mobile payments app, today announced that it has joined Visa’s Fintech Fast Track program, allowing Mamo Pay to reach a wider audience, and benefit from the capabilities, and security of VisaNet, Visa’s global payment network.

29 June 2020

Company announcement/payments

Visa and TerraPay partner to drive domestic remittances

TerraPay, a global payments infrastructure company and Visa, the world’s leader in digital payments, have today announced a strategic partnership that aims to develop and deliver payment solutions to drive financial inclusion and cashless transactions for domestic payments in Kenya and global remittances to Kenya.

24 June 2020

Company announcement/security

Visa Token Service issues one billionth token

Visa Inc. (NYSE:V) today announced that the company has now issued more than 1 billion tokens worldwide through Visa Token Service (VTS), marking a major milestone in its proprietary offering to help accelerate eCommerce innovation and make payments more secure.

23 June 2020

Company announcement/startups

DayTek Capital joins Visa Fast track programme

DayTek Capital today announced that it has joined Visa’s Fintech Fast Track program, allowing the business to leverage the reach, capabilities and security that VisaNet, the company’s global payment network, provides.

23 June 2020

Company announcement/payments

Visa targets 10 million Apac businesses with Covid-recovery programme

Visa (NYSE: V) today announced a commitment to support 10 million small businesses across Asia Pacific in an effort to get local communities back to business in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

23 June 2020

News/retail

Visa unveils AI-based credit application fraud prevention tool

Visa has built a digital tool that uses AI and proprietary data to help US financial institutions predict credit application fraud.

22 June 2020

Company announcement/startups

BPC joins Visa’s Fintech Fast Track Program

BPC today announced that it has joined Visa’s Fintech Fast Track Program, which makes it quicker and easier for fintechs to leverage Visa’s global payments network and introduce new payment experiences.

17 June 2020

News/payments

UK's top court rules against Visa and Mastercard in interchange fee battle

The UK's Supreme Court has come down in favour of the UK's biggest supermarket chains in a long-runnning legal battle over the level of interchange fees charged by Visa and Mastercard

17 June 2020