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Visa is moving "beyond the card" with its acquisition of cross-border payments firm Earthport to turbo-charge account-to-account payments. Bill Sheley, head of global push payments at Visa, tells Karen Webster how the combined companies enable banks and service providers to cover (through a single point of...
AI’s reality is far from the futuristic fantasies of, say, Minority Report, but, as Visa’s global head of innovation and design Mark Jamison tells Karen Webster, a number of promising use cases are blossoming across verticals, and across the globe. Here, he offers a whirlwind tour...
Globally, tapping to pay with contactless cards has taken off remarkably, and the U.S., after years of lagging behind, is starting to catch up, according to a new blog post from Visa. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy...
There are approximately 30.2 million small companies open for business in the U.S. today, employing around 58 million American workers, according to the Small Business Administration (SBA). That’s roughly half the adult workforce in the U.S. (47 percent), and the majority of those workers are employed...
Bankable, the global provider of “Banking as a Service” solutions, announced Tuesday (April 30) that it inked a partnership with Visa to enable financial firms and banks to access real-time modular banking services. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and...
Digital comes to all things, it seems, where plastic and physical conduits once reigned — spanning music, media and, in leaps and bounds, payments. Visa announces a new platform offering beta APIs to help issuers and issuer developers build and test new payment products, rendered in bits...
Instant payments — and the ability to push funds immediately across the debit rails to consumer bank accounts — has entered something of a renaissance. The demand is there: According to the latest edition of the PYMNTS Disbursements Tracker, 75 percent of consumers expressed a preference for faster payments, and...
If rules were made to be broken, what better rule to break than the rigid two-week payday cycle? Visa and PayActiv have teamed up to offer on-demand access to earned wages, which Cecilia Frew, SVP and head of North America push payments at Visa Direct, says...
