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Company announcement/startups

Bankable opens Middle East & Africa hub in Dubai

Bankable, the global provider of “Banking as a Service” solutions, and Visa today announced a strategic collaboration within the Central and Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa (CEMEA) region. Bankable aims to work with Visa to accelerate the digital capabilities of financial institutions’, build and launch digital banks, reduce cash usage and increase Fintech sponsorship in CEMEA.

27 November 2019

News/security

Cornèrcard launches biometric credit card

Switzerland's Cornèrcard has teamed up with Gemalto and Visa to launch the country's first credit card featuring a biometric fingerprint reader.

21 November 2019

News

Georgian neo bank Space to go global with Visa partnership

Georgian neo bank Space, an app-only offshoot of FTSE 250 TBC Bank, is to expand its international footprint through a partnership agreement with Visa.

14 November 2019

Company announcement

Turkey's İşbank pioneers implementation of 3D Secure 2.0 with Visa

The largest private bank in Turkey, İşbank, became the first Visa partner in Europe to complete EMV 3DS (3D Secure 2.0) implementation.

13 November 2019

Company announcement

Mesh partners with Visa for cross-border B2B payments

Mesh, today announced a collaboration with Visa to help suppliers and service providers around the world accept payment using Visa virtual prepaid commercial cards while benefiting from the speed, simplicity and transparency of the Mesh payment platform.

13 November 2019

News

Visa acquires minority stake in Nigeria's Interswitch

Visa is to acquire a 'significant' minority equity stake in Nigerian payments processor Interswitch in a deal that propels the African firm into Unicorn territory.

12 November 2019

Company announcement

Nium partners with Visa to provide instant money transfers in Southeast Asia

Nium, a fast-growing digital cross-border payments platform, is enabling users to make real-time money transfers to Visa debit cardholders across Southeast Asia powered by Visa’s real-time[1] push payments solution - Visa Direct.

11 November 2019

Company announcement

Visa to build new global HQ in San Francisco

Visa Inc. (NYSE: V) today announced its plans to lease a new, 300,000 square foot, 13-story building in the vibrant Mission Rock neighborhood of San Francisco, which will serve as Visa’s new global headquarters once completed.

07 November 2019

News/payments

Visa invests in ultrasonic data transmission firm

Visa has made a strategic investment in Lisnr, an ultrasonic data transmission specialist offering an alternative to NFC and QR code-based mobile payments. The size of the investment has not been disclosed.

05 November 2019

News

Kroger ends Visa ban

US supermarket giant Kroger is accepting Visa credit cards at all of its stores again, ending a ban begun more than a year ago in protest at "excessive" interchange fees.

30 October 2019

Company announcement

China's growth cements UnionPay as world's largest card scheme

New research from RBR shows that there were 16 billion payment cards in circulation at the end of 2018, up by 10% since a year earlier.

29 October 2019

Company announcement

TrueLayer joins Visa partner network

TrueLayer, Europe’s leading provider of financial APIs, has agreed a strategic and commercial relationship with Visa as part of its commitment to growing the Fintech industry.

29 October 2019