Cards continued to account for the greatest number of noncash payments in the United States in 2024, while ACH payments continued to account for the highest value of noncash payments. Both of those trends were true by a wider margin than three years earlier, according...
Visa introduced new ways to help small businesses manage payments via smartphone. The capabilities are for the company’s Visa Pay, Visa Accept and Visa Direct offerings and are designed for small businesses in emerging markets, according to a Tuesday (June 30) press release provided to...
China’s Tencent is reportedly testing an app designed for overseas travelers to its country. TenPayGo was created to function as a one-stop digital services platform that includes mobile payments, Bloomberg News reported Sunday (June 28), citing Jiemian News. The app, now being tested, lets users...
Visa has launched a travel platform as it moves to expand its role beyond payments. Visa Destinations, announced Thursday (June 25), is live now in Paris, London, Dubai, Milan, Rome, Mexico City, New York City, Miami, San Francisco and Thailand. “Travel is expected to grow 10% annually over...
Card issuers are under pressure to make their card programs do more than process transactions. Consumers expect cards to work instantly, safely and everywhere, whether the card is physical, virtual or loaded into a digital wallet. At the same time, issuers are trying to deepen...
Watch more: Monday Conversation With Mastercard’s Sherri Haymond For nearly 60 years, Mastercard has answered one question over and over. How do you get two parties who’ve never met to trust each other enough to do business? The answer was a card, a network, a...
Millennials are moving through their prime earning, spending and household-forming years with unusual economic weight. More than 74 million strong, millennials already account for nearly 3 in 10 consumer-spending dollars in the United States, and that share is projected to reach one-third by 2035. They...
Revolut has enabled Visa Click to Pay for eligible Visa cardholders, making the feature available to its more than 13 million customers in the United Kingdom and 40 million across Europe. The company will also make Click to Pay available for merchants in the U.K....
Visa announced new artificial intelligence (AI), stablecoin and token initiatives Wednesday (June 10). While unveiling these initiatives at Visa Payments Forum 2026, the company said they are designed to help clients unlock a new generation of commerce that is fast, automated and intelligent, it said in...