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Visa Inc. (NYSE: V)
Visa Inc. (/ˈviːzə/ or /ˈviːsə/) (also known as Visa, stylized as VISA) is an American multinational financial services corporation headquartered in Foster City, California, United States.
Visa and ICBA Payments to Facilitate Real-Time Money Movement for Community Banks
July 16, 2025Visa and ICBA Payments, a subsidiary of the Independent Community Bankers of America (ICBA), have renewed their 40-year partnership and plan to expand it by providing community banks with streamlined ...Read moreEstée Lauder Targets Younger Consumers in New Digital Push
July 16, 2025Estée Lauder is reportedly embarking on a new online retail push to reinvigorate slumping sales. That’s according to a report Wednesday (July 16) by The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), which includes an interview with ...Read moreShopify Lays Out New Rules Governing AI Agents
July 15, 2025Shopify has reportedly introduced rules governing merchants’ use of agentic artificial intelligence (AI). As Modern Retail reported Monday (July 14), the eCommerce platform has begun including a warning in the code powering merchant storefronts, ...Read moreO’Melveny Strengthens European Antitrust Practice with Strategic Brussels Hire
July 15, 2025O’Melveny has announced the appointment of Vanessa Turner, a figure in international antitrust law, as a partner in its Brussels office. Turner joins the firm’s Antitrust & Competition Practice Group, ...Read moreApple Strikes $500M Deal with MP Materials to Boost US Rare Earth Supply Chain
July 15, 2025Apple has signed a $500 million contract with MP Materials to secure a long-term supply of rare earth magnets. The deal, reported by Reuters, represents a major shift in U.S. ...Read moreVisa and Featurespace Take Fraud Fight to New Arena
July 15, 2025Watch more: Visa and Featurespace Tackle Deepfakes as Fraud Fight Turns Predictive In today’s war against financial fraud, the battlefield is evolving faster than ever, as artificial intelligence (AI) fuels both ...Read moreSkyfire Agents Mimic Humans to Shop, Sign Up and Pay Alone
July 14, 2025Skyfire has launched Agent Checkout, a new protocol that gives artificial intelligence (AI) agents the power to navigate the digital economy on their own — including signing up for accounts, ...Read moreCE 100 Index Loses 1.9% as BNPL Names Lead Payments Pillar Lower
July 14, 2025Most of the CE 100 Index components traded lower this past week, sending the overall index 1.9% lower as seven of the 11 pillars lost ground, ahead of the earnings ...Read moreSurveillance Pricing and Personal Information
July 14, 2025Surveillance pricing, or personalized pricing, is based on what a seller knows about a potential buyer. Thus, it is based on personal information used to customize pricing and maximize revenue. ...Read moreFed Digital Payments Mandate Gets Attention of Visa, Mastercard and FinTechs
July 11, 2025In March, the White House handed down an executive order mandating that the federal government will stop issuing paper checks for disbursements, effective Sept. 30, and will stop accepting them ...Read more

Digital Wallets Unite Banks and FinTechs in Latin America’s Inclusion Push
July 8, 2025Watch more: Latin America’s Digital Wallet Surge Forces Banks to Expand Financial Inclusion Latin America, long perceived as a region where cash was king and financial innovation moved at a deliberate ...Read moreB2B Companies Set to Disrupt Payments Tech Stack
July 8, 2025B2B companies want a simple, secure, consumer-like digital payments experience, Greg Castro, president of PayTrace by North, writes in a new PYMNTS eBook, “Halftime 2025: Charting the Future of Payments.” PayTrace ...Read morePayment Friction Taps the Brakes on Digital Growth in Brazil
July 7, 2025Brazil has become a global leader in mobile shopping adoption, with its consumers consistently demonstrating high engagement in digital commerce activities. The 2025 Global Digital Shopping Index: Brazil edition, commissioned ...Read moreX Exploring Payments Cards With Trading Function Coming ‘Soon’
June 19, 2025X’s CEO says the social media platform will “soon” offer an investment/trading option. “You’ll be able to come to X and be able to transact your whole financial life on the ...Read moreSyria Marks First SWIFT Transfer Since Its Civil War Began
June 19, 2025Syria has reportedly made its first international bank transfer via the SWIFT system since 2011. As Reuters noted in its report Thursday (June 19), that was the year the country’s civil ...Read moreMaking Sense of Where Stablecoins Fit in the Issuer-Merchant-Acquirer Stack
June 13, 2025Whoever owns the rails of digital payments might just own the next phase of commerce. Stablecoins, once dismissed as niche instruments for cryptocurrency enthusiasts, could be poised to mature into legitimate ...Read morePayPal Bets on Consumer Data to Power AI Checkout
June 13, 2025PayPal is doubling down on artificial intelligence (AI) and data-driven personalization to maintain its competitive edge in the changing digital payments landscape, according to Diego Scotti, general manager of PayPal’s ...Read moreTariffs Create Tailwind For Cross-Border Digital Wallet Usage
June 12, 2025Beyond the headlines on tariffs, trade and their macroeconomic implications, the back and forth about exports and imports highlights the importance of smooth fund flows across supply chains. Banks and FinTechs ...Read moreSamsung Wallet Adds ‘Tap to Transfer’ Feature for P2P Payments
May 21, 2025Samsung Wallet in the U.S. now simplifies peer-to-peer (P2P) payments with the help of Visa Tap technology and the Visa Direct money movement solution. With the launch of this Samsung Tap to Transfer, ...Read moreNuvei to Enable eCommerce Businesses to Accept Wero Digital Wallet
May 16, 2025Canadian FinTech company Nuvei has joined the European Payments Initiative (EPI) and plans to enable eCommerce businesses to accept EPI’s digital wallet, Wero, in their online checkouts. Nuvei will begin pilot programs this month and expects ...Read more
Issuers Want Core Banking and Processing Relationships With a Single Provider
July 9, 2025For card issuers seeking to modernize and digitize, there’s a strong preference to have a go-to provider as a single point of access for critical functions, PYMNTS Intelligence data show. As ...Read moreFederal Deadline Looms as Agencies Struggle to Move Beyond ACH Payments
June 27, 2025Watch more: Federal Deadline Approaches as Agencies Struggle to Move Beyond ACH Payments A looming Sept. 30 deadline set by an executive order to digitize federal government disbursements, a move affecting ...Read moreCommerce Giants Expand Into Stores With New Debit and Credit Cards
June 25, 2025PYMNTS Intelligence has long tracked the rise of the Click-and-Mortar™ shopper, the tech-savvy individual who traverses eCommerce and in-store shopping armed with mobile devices. The blurring of channel lines has ...Read moreSingle-Card FinTechs Fall Behind in Customer Lifetime Value Race
June 25, 2025The card issuing sector doesn’t just rely on convenience and security. Customer lifetime value (CLTV) is the space’s currency. However, that currency is in the middle of a paradigm shift. The PYMNTS ...Read moreCredit Card Competition Act Not Part of GENIUS Bill, But Swipe Fee Debate Endures
June 20, 2025The debate over regulation of the credit card industry will likely linger no matter what the fate of the Credit Card Competition Act (CCCA) might be. For a while, it looked ...Read moreLemFi Acquires Pillar to Support Credit Services for Immigrants
June 16, 2025LemFi has acquired Pillar to support its development of specialized credit services and cards to designed specifically for immigrants, starting with those in the U.K. This acquisition adds Pillar’s proprietary credit ...Read moreVisa: Issuer Customer Lifetime Value Hinges on Personalization and Real-Time Experiences
June 11, 2025It would be understandable to ascribe certain characteristics to the best-in-class issuers. The PYMNTS Intelligence and Visa DPS report “The Best-In-Class Modern Card Issuer: Driving Customer Lifetime Value Through Innovation” surveyed ...Read moreTop Performing Card Issuers Ace the Cardholder Personalization Test
June 4, 2025At the core of any firm’s success is customer lifetime value (CLTV), defined for issuers as the total revenue a cardholder generates over their entire relationship with an issuer. In surveying ...Read moreZA Bank to Enable ‘Visa Click to Pay’ in Several Asia-Pacific Markets
May 29, 2025Hong Kong-based digital bank ZA Bank has become the first card-issuing bank to enable Visa Click to Pay in Hong Kong and will do the same in 11 more Asia-Pacific ...Read moreIssuers With Diversified Card Products See Higher Customer Lifetime Value
May 28, 2025As the competitive landscape of card issuing becomes more complex, issuers face rising pressure to maximize customer lifetime value (CLTV), streamline operations and deliver flexible, responsive service models. What sets ...Read more
Report Finds More Than One-Third of Small Business Shoppers Manually Enter Payment Data
May 27, 2025To thrive in today’s fragmented retail landscape, small and medium-sized businesses must close the digital divide and embrace unified commerce strategies. It’s a good summary of PYMNTS’ new 2025 Global Digital ...Read moreSamsung Wallet Adds ‘Tap to Transfer’ Feature for P2P Payments
May 21, 2025Samsung Wallet in the U.S. now simplifies peer-to-peer (P2P) payments with the help of Visa Tap technology and the Visa Direct money movement solution. With the launch of this Samsung Tap to Transfer, ...Read moreVisa Debuts Program to Help Businesses Embed Payments
May 21, 2025Visa launched Visa Commercial Integrated Partners, a program to help businesses embed payments into their products and platforms. The program is designed to cover companies ranging from ERP platforms that streamline ...Read moreBrazilian Consumers Lead Mobile In-Store Use Globally, Despite Checkout Frictions
May 6, 2025Brazilian consumers are rapidly adopting mobile devices for retail purchases, outpacing global trends, though pervasive payment friction presents a significant hurdle for merchants, according to the 2025 Global Digital Shopping ...Read moreRegulatory Shifts and Cyberattacks Put UK Merchant Credential Storage in the Spotlight
April 25, 2025In the current environment, no matter what the country, consumers are keenly aware of the pressures of inflation, of how far their spending can stretch, and where they may have ...Read moreMerchants Eye Payment System Constraints as Consumers Embrace Mobile-First Shopping
April 2, 2025The mobile device has become the center of commerce — not just online, but in-store — and using digital payments across those devices has become part of the commerce landscape. However, ...Read moreFrom Minutes to Money: Telecom Firms Bank on Financial Services
March 31, 2025The mobile phone’s increasing penetration into global markets is helping blur the lines between telecom and financial services, where digital banks, and especially neobanks, are moving into communications and mobile ...Read moreRewards and Easy Payment Options Win Over Mobile Shoppers
March 20, 2025The rise of the click-and-mortar shopper, with mobile devices as the key conduit to commerce no matter the channel, has given clues to what consumers expect from their merchants online ...Read moreVisa to Add Tokenization and Digital Wallet Capabilities to Fleet Cards
March 13, 2025Visa will soon add tokenization and custom provisioning for mobile transactions to its Fleet cards, enabling issuers and FinTechs to integrate encrypted and tokenized card information into Apple Pay mobile ...Read moreVisa Offers Mobile Commercial Payments Tool to Emirates NBD
March 5, 2025Visa teamed with Dubai-based bank Emirates NBD to launch a commercial payment solution. The partnership makes Emirates NBD the first bank in the United Arab Emirates to offer Visa’s Commercial Pay ...Read more