Visa - News, Articles & Research

First Boulevard raises $5m for Black community-focused neobank

First Boulevard, a neobank focused on the Black community, has raised $5 million in a seed funding round joined by Barclays.

01 March 2021

News/payments

Intuit sues Visa and Mastercard over 'price fixing'

Intuit has filed a federal lawsuit against Mastercard and Visa over 'unlawful' price fixing in interchange and card scheme fee structures.

24 February 2021

Company announcement/payments

ADP integrates with Visa Direct

Visa (NYSE:V), the world’s leader in digital payments, and ADP (NASDAQ: ADP), a leading global provider of Human Capital Management (HCM) solutions, today announced a partnership that will offer ADP’s clients, large and small, with a digitally-enabled, convenient and cost-effective solution for off-cycle payments to employees.

18 February 2021

Company announcement/startups

Wayra joins Zone2Boost startup investment coalition

Wayra, Telefónica's open innovation hub, and Zone2boost, the international initiative from CaixaBank, Global Payments, Worldline and Visa, are joining forces to strengthen their commitment to innovation and collaboration with start-ups.

17 February 2021

Company announcement/security

Spreedly partners Visa to accelerate network tokenisation in Latin America

Spreedly, the provider of a secure, agnostic, and flexible platform that welcomes all payments participants, today announced a new initiative with Visa.

09 February 2021

News/crypto

Forget bitcoin, card firms should embrace stablecoin payments - Gartner

Research house Gartner has poured cold water on Visa's recent move to support bitcoin trading on its network, arguing that the real revolution in payments would see centralised financial companies support stablecoin transactions on blockchains.

08 February 2021

News/crypto

Visa partners neobank on crypto API pilot

Visa has teamed up with First Boulevard, a neobank focused on the Black community, for the first pilot of its new suite of crypto APIs, which will enable customers to purchase, custody and trade digital assets.

03 February 2021

Company announcement/payments

Pliant and Visa 'Infinite Business' card in Germany

Visa (NYSE: V) is launching the first Visa Infinite Business credit card in Europe onto the German market together with FinTech pliant.

03 February 2021

Company announcement/payments

Visa introduces VisaNet +AI

Visa Inc. (NYSE: V) today announced VisaNet +AI, a suite of AI-powered services that address long-standing challenges and pain points for banks, merchants and consumers—including delays and confusion with managing account balances and the unpredictability of daily settlement for financial institutions.

02 February 2021

Company announcement/payments

BPC extends its regional partnership with Visa’s Fintech Fast Track Program

Global paytech provider BPC today announced that it has extended its membership with Visa’s Fintech Fast Track Program to APAC, Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

02 February 2021

News/crypto

Visa prepares for crypto future

Visa CEO Alfred Kelly says the card scheme is preparing its payments network to handle a full range of cryptocurrency assets.

01 February 2021

News/cloud

TransferWise taps new Visa cloud tech for global card programme

TransferWise is expanding its debit card programme into dozens of new markets after inking a worldwide deal with Visa that will see the money transfer firm connect to the card giant's global processing network via the cloud.

27 January 2021