Visa

1502 results about this entity

Period: 26 Feb 2008 - 13 Aug 2024

Visa names Rajat Taneja EVP, technology

Visa has poached Rajat Taneja from video games outfit Electronic Arts as its new executive vice president of technology.

Russian commuters get squat and ride payment option

In a marketing gimmick ahead of the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, commuters on Moscow's subway can now pay for their journeys using a new currency - squats.

Orange and Visa team on NFC m-payments in France

Wireless operator Orange has teamed up with Visa to roll out a mobile contactless payments service across France.

Citi Hong Kong launches NFC-based mobile wallet

Banking giant Citi has teamed up with telco 3 Hong Kong to launch an NFC-enabled mobile wallet.

Smartphone payments: Where Italy stands

Davide Steffanini, general manager, Visa Europe, discusses where Italy stands in the global smartphone payments market and the future of mobile payments.

Australia to take co-ordinated approach to scrapping signatures at the check-out

Australia's competition watchdog is to allow card schemes and banks to work together to replace the use of signatures at the check-out with Chip and PIN authorisation for payments.

US prosecutors charge 13 over financial cyberattacks

The US Justice Department has charged 13 alleged members of the hacktivist collective Anonymous for their part in a series of cyberattacks against major banks and credit card companies.

Card giants bid to boost online checkout security with digital tokens

Visa, MasterCard and American Express want to overhaul global e-commerce security, ditching account numbers in favour of digital tokens for online and mobile transactions.

Occupy Wall Street group preps debit card

An offshoot of the Occupy Wall Street movement is planning to take banks on at their own game with the launch of a pre-paid debit card.

MEPS to debate NSA tapping of Swift data

European politicians are to debate the purported tapping by the US National Security Agency of bank-to-bank payments messages sent over the Swift network.

Visa and MasterCard agree to cut French card fees

Visa and MasterCard have agreed a deal with the French competition authority to slash their card interchange fees in the country by nearly half.

Austria preps NFC-based mobile wallet

A collection of heavyweight banks, card firms and telcos have joined forces in Austria to build an open, nation-wide standard for NFC-based mobile wallets.