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Company announcement/payments

Littlepay gains Visa Ready For Transit certification

Transit-focused payment gateway Littlepay announces today that it has joined the growing number of Visa Ready for Transit partners with Visa Certified Solutions.

09 September 2020

Company announcement/crypto

Cred joins Visa Fast Track programme

Cred, a global digital asset lending and borrowing platform, announced today that it has joined Visa’s Fast Track program, speeding up the process of integrating with Visa.

09 September 2020

Company announcement/crypto

Cred joins Visa Fast Track programme

Cred, a global digital asset lending and borrowing platform, announced today that it has joined Visa’s Fast Track program, speeding up the process of integrating with Visa.

08 September 2020

News/payments

Visa faces EU scrutiny over digital wallet licencing rules

The European Commission has opened a preliminary investigation into Visa's rules regarding staged digital wallets.

07 September 2020

Company announcement/payments

Checkbook.io joins Visa Fintech Fast Track programme

Checkbook.io, an end-to-end online payments processor, today announced that it has joined Visa’s Fintech Fast Track program, speeding up the process of integrating with the Visa network, and allowing Checkbook to easily leverage the reach, capabilities and security that VisaNet, Visa's global payments network, offers.

04 September 2020

News/payments

Vipps to reach beyond Norway with Visa distribution deal

Norwegian payments app Vipps is making a bid to break out of its home market through a strategic partnership with Visa.

03 September 2020

Company announcement/payments

Saudi Arabian savings app Hakbah forms partnership with Visa

Hakbah, an alternative financial saving platform based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, today announced that it has signed a multi-year strategic partnership agreement with Visa, the world’s leader in digital payments, to issue Visa prepaid cards to its customers in Saudi Arabia and GCC.

02 September 2020

Company announcement/payments

SwatchPay now available for Visa card holders

SwatchPAY! is adding a string to its bow by partnering with the payment network Visa.

02 September 2020

News/payments

Visa uses AI to reduce declined transactions during service outages

Visa is using real-time AI to help financial institutions manage transaction authorisations during service outages and disruptions.

26 August 2020

Company announcement

Visa ups investment in softPOS firm MagicCube

MagicCube, the creator of the world's only Software Trusted Execution Environment platform, today announced a strategic investment from Visa.

25 August 2020

Company announcement/regulation

CMA greenlights Visa's takeover of Plaid

The decision by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) follows a Phase 1 review in which it investigated several possible ways the deal could harm competition.

24 August 2020

Company announcement/payments

Nacha adds Visa to Phixius pilot programme

Nacha today announced that Visa joined a growing list of partners piloting Phixius – a payment-information exchange platform that helps credentialed service providers share and manage electronic payments information, making pre and post payments processing more efficient and secure than current processes.

12 August 2020