Visa

Visa Brings In New Head Of Investor Relations

Visa has named Mike Milotich as senior vice president of investor relations, effective immediately. He takes over for Jack Carsky, who retired...

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VISA

Visa Digital Commerce Aims To Streamline, Standardize Digital Checkout

Ubiquity of acceptance is payments’ holy grail. It’s an experience that people living in the developed world have learned to expect each...

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B2B Payments

Visa, SBA To Host Small Business FinTech Hackathon

Visa and the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) are hosting a small business (SMB) hackathon later this month to promote the development of...

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Today In Data

New Ways To Do Old Things

Shopping isn’t new — it was one of the earliest signs of civilization — but customers keep resetting how they shop and...

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Ridesharing

Uber Rolls Out Branded Card For Drivers, Delivery Partners

Uber, the ride-hailing company, announced news on Tuesday (April 3) of the launch of its Uber Visa Debit Card from GoBank. In...

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VISA

Visa Names The 50 Winners Of Visa Cashless Challenge

Visa, the payments company, announced Thursday (March 29) the 50 winners of the Visa Cashless Challenge, in which small businesses in the...

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Prepaid

Beyond The Buzzword: eGifting Meets P2P Payments

How can eGifting be more enjoyable — the experience more exciting — than receiving a traditional digital gift card? “Historically, sending cash...

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Credit Unions

Visa Explores How CUs Can Engage And Retain Millennial Talent

Millennials are a tough generation to recruit. Nearly two-thirds are open to new career opportunities, while one in five has changed jobs...

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VISA

Visa Expands Visa’s Everywhere Initiative To The US

Visa, the payments company, announced an expansion of its Visa Everywhere Initiative for 2018, adding new participating countries, including the U.S. In...

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Credit Unions

NEW REPORT: Visa On Arming CUs To Win The War For Millennial Talent

Collaboration has seemingly become the new name of the game in the credit union landscape. Increasingly, CUs and other players in...

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Bitcoin

Visa CFO No Fan Of Cryptocurrency As An Investment

Visa’s Chief Financial Officer Vasant Prabhu is no fan of cryptocurrency, arguing in an interview with the Financial Times that digital tokens...

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VISA

Visa Study: For Indian Travelers, High Tech, Low Cash Use

Visa announced news on Wednesday (March 14) that it released its Global Travel Intentions Study, which spotlighted trends in tourism and travel...

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Fintech Investments

Visa Invests In solarisBank — And Banking-As-A-Service

solarisBank, the first FinTech with a full banking license, raised EUR 56.6 million in a round of funding that included Visa among...

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Data Dive

Data Dive: And The Winner Is Edition — SMBs Worldwide, DoorDash And Gun Regulation

The pomp, the pageantry — and, of course, the glamour. Roughly 40 million people tuned in last night to the 90th run-through...

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Digital Payments

Visa Adds Receipt-Capturing Tech To Biz Reporting Tool

Visa, the payments company, announced Monday (March 5) that it is bringing new capabilities to its Visa Business Reporting tool, which is...

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Today In Data

Today In Data: Employees Steal, Earnings Reports Wow And Subscriptions Boom

Today in PYMNTS data, employees are stealing tens of billions from their employers every year, earnings reports show growth for tech and...

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VISA

Visa Fights EU Antitrust Charges

Visa is fighting back against accusations that it charges tourists excessive fees when they use their cards in the European Union. According...

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Fraud Prevention

Visa Says Counterfeit Fraud At Chip-Enabled Merchants Plummets 70 Percent

Visa announced news on Friday (Feb. 23) that counterfeit fraud, as measured in dollars, dropped 70 percent in September 2017 compared to...

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VISA

Visa’s Token Management Service Closes Merchant Omnichannel Gap

As commerce channels expand, so do tokenized account credentials and the complexities of managing a single view of the customer for the...

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Bitcoin

Worldpay, Visa Reverse Duplicate Coinbase Transactions

Worldpay and Visa disclosed late last week that they are reversing duplicate transactions that resulted in unauthorized withdrawals. According to a report...

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B2B Payments

Visa Expands B2B Connect Project To Asia And Russia

UnionBank has announced that several community banks in the Philippines have signed on as partners to develop the blockchain platform underlying Visa’s...

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B2B Payments

From Heavyweights To Newcomers, Finserv Goes All-In On APIs

The conversation around B2B payments innovation and progress cannot be held without the banks. Sure, FinTechs are flocking to the industry to...

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Digital Banking

For Community Banks, Big Business From Small Business Credit Cards

Think small, goes the saying, to effect big change. For community banks serving small- to mid-sized businesses (SMBs), training an eye on...

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B2B Payments

Visa B2B Payments: Where The Fraedom Buy Fits

If it seems like Visa has been on a B2B payments kick lately, it’s because they have. The payments giant has struck...

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International

Medaling, Outside The Olympic Arena

The Winter Olympics are in full swing in Pyeongchang, South Korea. Opening ceremonies took place Friday night, local time (early Friday morning...

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VISA

Visa Acquires Fraedom For $195M To Expand B2B Payments

Visa said Friday that it has acquired Fraedom, which provides — via software as a service — expense management solutions for financial...

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Payment Methods

TSYS, Chase Partner On Virtual B2B Payments

Credit card processor, merchant acquirer and bank credit card issuer TSYS announced Wednesday (Feb. 7) that JPMorgan will offer the company’s Virtual...

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Today In Data

Today In Data: Visa, Mastercard And Apple All Release Earnings Results

Today in PYMNTS data, Visa earnings topped expectations, Mastercard saw positive outcomes and Apple underwhelmed market watchers in their recently released earnings...

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Payment Methods

Starbucks, Visa/Chase Team On Co-Branded Rewards Card

Starbucks and Chase announced Thursday (Feb. 1) that they were rolling out a Starbuck Rewards Visa Card, a co-branded credit card integrated...

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VISA

Payments Ecosystem Readies For Visa’s New Chargeback Rules

What you don’t know can, indeed, hurt you — especially when it comes to chargeback liability. The waters of transaction disputes are challenging...

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Earnings

Visa Q1 Where It Wanted To Be On Holiday, eCommerce Spend

Visa's fiscal Q1 topped the Street on the top line as consumers spent (and spent) during the holiday season. And they did...

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International

Visa: Innovation At The Core Drives LATAM B2B Transformation

Who said the future is in the cards? Whoever it was clearly had not heard of the term “financial inclusion.” In Latin...

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VISA

Visa Checkout Hits 1 Million Enrolled Milestone In UK

Visa announced news on Wednesday (Jan. 31) that Visa Checkout, the online payment method introduced in the United Kingdom in the middle...

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ANTITRUST

Why The Amex Case May Decide The Future Of Two-Sided Markets

The Supreme Court is gearing up to hear whether the antitrust case against American Express has merit -- or not. Just as...

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B2B Payments

Visa Begins Testing B2B Connect

Visa has begun testing its new cross-border B2B payments solution B2B Connect, according to various reports on Monday (Jan. 22). Inquirer Business...

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B2B Payments

Visa Taps PayMate To Enhance B2B Payments In India

Visa is working with India B2B payments company PayMate to enhance its payment services for corporate customers, reports said Thursday (Jan. 18)....

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VISA

Visa CEO Says Bitcoin Not A Payments Player

Visa’s Chief Executive Alfred Kelly expressed skepticism about the cryptocurrency bitcoin, reportedly saying it’s not money and that the payment company won’t...

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VISA

Visa: Data Will Deliver Payments And Commerce 2.0

Anyone who’s ever checked into a hotel knows the drill. Traveler, usually tired traveler, walks through the front door, approaches the front...

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Biometrics

Visa Biometric Card Tech Eliminates PINs And Sigs

Visa announced late last week that merchants can now tap into its suite of sensory branding via a pilot program. In a...

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VISA

Visa: What’s Driving Automotive’s Great Commerce Shift

The automotive world is on the precipice of a major change – a shifting of its gears, to use a fitting metaphor. And...

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Cross Border Commerce

How Many Payments Does A Cross-Border Merchant Really Need?

American consumers, as a group, are finished with friction-filled, lumpy checkout experiences. Even a couple of years ago, these consumers were...

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VISA

Visa Makes Signature Optional For Chip Transactions In North America

No more signatures. Visa said Jan. 12 in a blog post that it is making the signature an option — and no longer...

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B2B Payments

Visa Spreads B2B Payments Focus Through LatAm With NovoPay

Visa is expanding its B2B payments footprint throughout Latin America. The payments technology company announced Wednesday (Jan. 10) that it has struck...

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VISA

Visa Nixes Crypto Debit Cards

Visa, the payments company, has terminated its relationship with WaveCrest, a cryptocurrency card provider. Citing an email from WaveCrest, CNBC reported the...

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Intelligence of Things

NEW REPORT: Connected Cars Drive $212B Annually In Commerce Spend

The right connections can open up plenty of opportunities. And, in the automotive world, connectivity is helping automakers find new opportunities to...