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Company announcement/cloud

Visa joins AWS partner network

Visa (NYSE: V), a world leader in global digital payments, announced today it has joined the AWS Partner Network (APN), a global community that leverages AWS technologies, programs, expertise and tools to build solutions and services for customers.

25 April 2024

Company announcement/payments

Standard Chartered joins Visa B2B Connect

Standard Chartered today announced that it has joined Visa B2B Connect, a multilateral payment network that enables faster and frictionless account-to-account cross-border payments for its corporate clients.

24 April 2024

News/payments

NextGen Nordics 2024: The current state of play of cross-border payments

Moderating the second panel of the day, Niamh Curran, senior reporter at Finextra, discussed real-time cross border payments with Patrik Havander, head of B2B Connect Europe at Visa, Christian Schwarz, director payments Europe at Finastra, Dr Hubertus von Poser, member of the management board at PPI, Colin Williams, global lead for clearing transformation at J.P. Morgan, and Jenny Winther, head of payment schemes at Svenska Handelsbanken.

23 April 2024

Company announcement/payments

Visa bundles products for 'click-and-mortar' retailers

With a new fast-growing segment of ‘Click-and-Mortar™, shoppers who rely on digital features to shop both online and in-store, merchants are managing complex technology as they work to provide consistent payment experiences.

17 April 2024

Finextra TV/payments

2023 Working Capital Needs Of Growth Corporate CFOs & Treasurers In Europe

In this episode of FinextraTV, Clive Cornelius, Head of T&E and Procurement Commercial Products at Visa, & James Sykes, Head of Commercial Cards and Invoice Finance Products at Lloyds Bank, discuss Visa’s recently published Growth Corporates Working Capital Index Report. We learn about the state of play across the European Growth Corporates landscape, the biggest challenges that Growth Corporates in the UK & Europe are facing today, and how CFOs are deploying solutions and investing in growth to counteract these challenges.

09 April 2024

Company announcement/payments

Visa launches subscription management tool

The global subscription economy is on a steady rise, expected to reach a staggering $406B by 2025. As the trend of consumers subscribing to services in sectors such as retail, food and more increases, so does the challenge of managing their payments.

03 April 2024

Finextra TV/payments

Advancing payments: How can innovation drive business growth?

At MPE 2024, Neil Caldwell, Senior Vice President, Merchant Sales & Acquiring, Visa Europe, explores the influence of Open Banking and regulatory changes such as PSD2 on the payments industry. We discuss how technologies like tokenization and biometric authentication safeguards merchants and drives growth; and look at methods for optimising payments and enhancing customer experience, alongside exciting developments in biometric payments, real-time platforms, and the integration of artificial intelligence and machine learning.

28 March 2024

News/security

Visa launches AI-powered fraud prevention tools

Visa has added a trio of AI-powered risk and fraud prevention tools to its suite of products for businesses.

28 March 2024

Company announcement/payments

Consorsbank Visa card portfolio migrated to Worldline

Worldline (Euronext: WLN), a global leader in payment services, has successfully completed the migration of Consorsbank’s Visa Card Portfolio from the existing legacy mainframe solution to its cutting-edge customer-centric issuing processing solution.

27 March 2024

News/payments

Visa and Mastercard reach $30bn interchange fee settlement with merchants

After nearly 20 years of litigation, Visa and Mastercard have reached a settlement with US merchants lowering and capping credit card interchange rates in a deal that could save the merchants $30 billion over five years.

26 March 2024

Company announcement/payments

Oz spend management platform Weel teams up with Nium

Weel, Australia’s leading spend management platform, and Nium, the leader in real-time cross-border payments, today announced a new strategic partnership to help finance teams better manage their corporate spend.

26 March 2024

Company announcement/payments

Thunes and Visa expand collaboration

Thunes, a cross-border payments company, today announced its deepened strategic collaboration with Visa, a world leader in digital payments, aimed at enabling new endpoints in key markets across Asia and Africa.

21 March 2024