Visa

1502 results about this entity

Period: 26 Feb 2008 - 13 Aug 2024

Campaign pushes for US adoption of chip and PIN

A campaign designed to put pressure on US card issuers to embrace chip and PIN, rather than just chip and signature, technology has been launched.

Finland's OP to introduce mobile wallet

OP`s customers will be able to pay for their purchases by mobile phone during the spring. In practice, the payment is done by showing Pivo at the point of sale and moving the phone close to the payment terminal.

Oz telco Optus preps smartwatch payments

Australian telco Optus is planning to launch smartwatches and wristbands that let customers make contactless payments with the flick of a wrist.

Visa to drive in-car commerce with Pizza Hut

Visa is working with Accenture and Pizza Hut to test the use of onboard mobile and online commerce for car drivers.

Visa and Bharti Airtel push mobile money as telcos lead the way in developing markets

Visa is to work with Bharti Airtel to extend its mobile money service to seven markets in Africa, including Gabon, Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, Rwanda, Seychelles and Tanzania.

Visa to buy offers specialist TrialPay

Visa has struck an agreement to acquire American transactional advertising outfit TrialPay. Financial terms of the deal have not been disclosed.

Visa and MasterCard report strong bank uptake for HCE-based mobile payments

Banco do Brazil, PNC Bank and US Bank are set to join the growing band of finacial services firms working with Visa to offer their customers HCE-based contactless mobile payments.

Visa brings tokenisation to Europe; preps P2P/social media payments service

Visa Europe is to launch a tokenisation service customised for the European marketplace in mid-April in a move which would pave the way for the roll out of Apple Pay across the continent.

Visa ramps up tokenisation effort

Visa Inc. (NYSE:V), the global leader in payments, today announced that it is expanding the use of new security technology that replaces the traditional 16-digit Visa account number with a unique series of numbers, helping to prevent exposure of sensitive consumer account information in online and mobile payments.

Visa launches mobile location service to cut declined card payments

In an effort to cut unnecessary purchase declines, Visa is set to start identifying cardholders when they make purchases on their travels through mobile phone geo-location data.

Contactless payments arrive on Coronation Street

Visa Europe has signed a six-figure product placement deal with British television network ITV that will see contactless payments get high profile outings on prime-time soaps Coronation Street and Emmerdale.

Visa Europe to spend EUR200 million on digital payment technologies

Visa Europe is to invest more than EUR200 million in new payment technologies to accelerate the growth of digital payments after reporting record transaction volumes for 2014.