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Visa Inc. is an American multinational financial services corporation headquartered in Foster City, California, United States. It facilitates electronic funds transfers throughout the world, most commonly through Visa-branded credit cards, gift cards, and debit cards.
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The WeekenderCloud Technology For FIs, Debit Cards, Potential Credit Card Default Crisis Top This Week’s News
It’s the end of the work week, and the PYMNTS Weekender is here to make sure you didn’t miss anything with the...
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EarningsCharting The Great Digital Shift Through Earnings Reports
Earnings season is a four-times-a-year scorecard for publicly traded companies. It’s a time for CEOs and CFOs to discuss where they’ve been –...
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NewsToday In Payments: Visa Sees Gains In Online, Contactless Transactions In Q2; Starbucks Rewards Members Drop To 16.3M
In today’s top news, Visa reported mixed Q2 earnings, and Starbucks reported a drop in rewards members in its Q3 earnings. Plus,...
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Payments InnovationB2B Payments’ Pivot To Digital
“Fundamental changes to the B2B payments landscape are taking place today, faster than ever before, helping the ecosystem eliminate inefficient B2B payments...
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VISAVisa Sees Gains In Online and Contactless Transactions In Q2
Visa reported Tuesday (July 28) that its second-quarter results suffered from plummeting consumer spending amid COVID-19, although the pandemic did boost online...
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NewsToday In Payments: Amazon Expands Grocery Delivery In UK; Mastercard To Improve Business Payments In China
In today’s top news, Amazon will expand its Amazon Fresh delivery service in the U.K., and Mastercard and the Bank of Shanghai...
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Security & FraudVisa, Mastercard Fined Wirecard Millions
Long before alarm bells sounded at Wirecard AG, the now-insolvent German payments processing company, there were red flags. The Wall Street Journal...
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SMBsNew Report: Why Real-Time Settlement Can Make or Break Main Street Businesses
It’s been long said that small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are the backbone of the American economy. That’s hard to argue with...
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Fraud PreventionNew Report: How FIs Are Finding Fraudsters Wherever They May Hide
Synthetic identity fraud is costing companies heavily, with $14.7 billion lost to this type of crime in 2018 alone. This is a...
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B2B PaymentsmyPOS Rolls Out Metal Card With New Benefits For SMBs
European FinTech payments company myPOS, which works in offering affordable payments to small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs), has new credit cards that...
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MastercardMastercard Promoting Sustainable Credit Cards
Mastercard Inc. is promoting the use of sustainable credit cards, helping issuers in more than a dozen countries offer cards made from...
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SMBsSurvival Of The Fittest And SMBs’ Great Digital Shift
The global pandemic’s emergence radically shifted the entire small- to medium-sized business (SMB) landscape almost overnight in terms of digitizing operations, according...
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Payment MethodsBrazil Will OK WhatsApp Payments If Facebook Follows Rules
The payments program from messenger service WhatsApp will be allowed to go forward in Brazil, the country’s central bank said, so long...
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SMBsThe Main Street Cash Crunch, Quantified
Cash flow is the lifeblood of Main Street small business. Under COVID-19 cash flow dried up almost overnight, triggering what’s starting to...
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The WeekenderSMB Cash Flow Gaps, Transit Payments, Disaster Loans Top This Week’s News
It’s the end of the work week, and the PYMNTS Weekender is here to make sure you didn’t miss anything with the...
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NewsToday In Payments: FBI Probes Twitter Hack; Wirecard Exec Admits Role In Company’s Collapse
In today’s top news, the FBI is investigating the worst security breach in Twitter’s history, and one of the jailed Wirecard executives...
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VISAVisa: Contactless Is The Cornerstone For A Reinvented Public Transportation Experience
Transit system operators were already thinking about making at least a partial switch to contactless payments long before a global pandemic disrupted...
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VISAVisa Expands Contactless Public Transportation Payments Due To Pandemic
Visa, in response to the rising demand for safer ways to travel, has expanded its partnership with Cubic Transportation Systems to offer...
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B2B PaymentsPayments Heavyweights Dig Heels Deeper Into Commercial Cards
Commercial card innovation continues to make big waves in the accounts payable (AP) department, as corporates and card issuers alike explore new...
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NewsToday In Payments: BigCommerce Eyes IPO; Biggest Banks Brace For Loan Losses
In today’s top news, BigCommerce filed for an IPO, and the country’s largest banks have set aside almost $30 billion to cover...
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Partnerships / AcquisitionsChargeAfter Launches Visa Installments In US And Integrates With Cybersource Platform
ChargeAfter, the buy now, pay later (BNPL) technology company, has partnered with Visa to integrate with its Cybersource payment-management platform, the company...
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SMBsNEW REPORT: Helping Main Street SMBs Close The Cash Flow Gap
Main Street small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are a barometer for the economic vitality and the health of the broader U.S. economy....
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Security & FraudWhy The Best Fraud Defenses Need Artificial And Human Intelligence
There’s an old saying that sunlight is the best disinfectant. Shedding some light on just what the bad guys want — and...
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NewsToday In Payments: Amazon Introduces Smart Shopping Carts; Europe Reopens, Shopping Spree Underway
In today’s top news, Amazon introduced shopping carts that let customers skip checkout lines, and retail sales in Europe surged by nearly...
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Digital PaymentsVisa Launches Visa Installments Pilots in the US
Point-of-sale (POS) installment plans have captured the attention of consumers and merchants, alike, as each explores new credit options to manage spend...
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Digital PaymentsVisa On The Role of ‘Super Apps’ In Driving Emerging Market Growth
“Careem” is an Arabic word meaning, in part, “noble, admirable and praiseworthy.” In the case of Dubai-based ride-hailing and delivery platform Careem...
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Payments InnovationBusinesses Are On A Mission To Digitize Payments
“We are seeing more and more issuing banks championing virtual cards that feed directly into mobile wallets, doing away with plastic once...
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Smarter PaymentsFortune Favors Cross-Border Payments
With the volume of cross-border B2B payments projected to hit nearly $6.5 trillion by 2024, it’s small wonder that so much investment...
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B2B PaymentsAccrualify Partners With Visa For New Corporate Card
Accrualify, which works in cloud-based solutions for mid- and enterprise-level companies, is launching a new corporate card in partnership with Visa, according...
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Payments InnovationAmex, Discover, Mastercard And Visa Take Click to Pay Global
American Express, Discover, Mastercard and Visa have agreed on the global expansion of touch-free purchases across merchants and platforms. Click to Pay,...
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RetailVisa On The Changing Needs Of Merchants At The (Digital) Checkout
Merchants’ needs have changed dramatically due to the pandemic. Digitizing operations tops the list of merchant imperatives, but getting there can be...
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Smarter PaymentsNew Report: How FinTechs Help Brazilian SMBs Solve Cross-Border Payments Pains
B2B payments are undergoing a vast digital transformation, with solutions providers stepping up to offer more speedy options as companies look to...
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Digital PaymentsIt Takes A Village To Build An Instant-Payments Ecosystem
The idea that money should be able to move instantly between sender and recipient has long been gaining ground in P2P payments,...
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Partnerships / AcquisitionsIndia’s Billing Processor BillDesk Looks For Buyers
Indian payment gateway BillDesk, which controls over half of the business clients in the country, is looking to sell off its business...
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NewsToday In Payments: Senate Approves Five-Week Extension For PPP; Document: Wirecard Depended Upon Few Clients
In today’s top news, the Senate extended the PPP application deadline by five weeks, and an internal document reveals a small client...
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InternationalEU Awaits Launch Of Payments Network Challenger This Week
A group of big European banks is planning to challenge Visa’s and Mastercard’s positions as the world’s two largest payment processing networks,...
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Payments InnovationTokenization And Getting A 360-Degree View Into Consumer Spending
Tokens are incredibly powerful tools to secure data and safely transport it from one point to another. Now is the time to...
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VISAVisa, Careem Team To Support Digital Payments Growth In Middle East, N. Africa
Careem, the Dubai-based ride hailing company, has entered into a partnership with Visa to expand digital payments. The agreement is expected to...
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Payment MethodsChime Launches Credit Card That Taps Into Bank Account Funds
Credit Builder, a U.S. challenger bank, has debuted a new credit card that works like a debit card by letting customers spend...
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Digital PaymentsWirecard Says Payouts To Merchants Will Continue Uninterrupted
Wirecard AG, the disgraced German payments provider that filed for insolvency last week over a $2.1 billion accounting scandal, told customers it’s...
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The WeekenderFaster Worker Pay, Cloud Banking And WhatsApp Payments In Brazil Top This Week’s News
It’s the end of the work week, and the PYMNTS Weekender is here to make sure you didn’t miss anything with the...
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InnovationThis Week In Payments: Saving Small Business
The first half of 2020 has been rough on small businesses of all kinds, whether they had to close their doors due...
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Security & FraudMastercard, Visa Said To Rethink Wirecard Deals Amid Accounting Scandal
Mastercard and Visa are considering ending their agreements with Wirecard to process payments on their networks as the German financial technology company’s...
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NewsToday In Payments: Brazil Central Bank Shuts WhatsApp Payments; Visa’s SMB Hub Launches With PayPal, Freshbooks
In today’s top news, Brazil’s central bank suspended WhatsApp’s payment feature, and Visa launched its online resource hub for small and medium-sized...
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Payments InnovationVisa, TerraPay Link Up For Real-Time, Cashless Payments
Visa and the Dutch FinTech TerraPay said they plan to develop and deliver “payment solutions to drive financial inclusion and cashless transactions for...
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VISAVisa’s SMB Hub Launches With 20 Partners Including PayPal, Yelp and Freshbooks
Visa has launched an online resource for small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) designed to assist entrepreneurs expand their businesses and build stronger...
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InternationalBrazil Central Bank Cites Lack Of Competition In Shutting Down WhatsApp Payments
Brazil’s central bank has suspended WhatsApp’s payment feature in the country, citing antitrust concerns, according to Bloomberg on Tuesday (June 23). Mastercard...
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NewsToday In Payments: Wirecard’s Former CEO Markus Braun Arrested; Airbnb CEO Sees Potential For 2020 IPO
In today’s top news, former Wirecard CEO Markus Braun was arrested Monday night over the firm’s recent accounting fraud scandal, and Airbnb’s...
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VISAInside Visa’s Plans To Get 50 Million SMBs Back On Track
The first half 2020 has been undeniably hard on small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) forced to close their doors, rapidly reset operations...
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VISAVisa On Its 1 Billion Token Milestone — And What Lies Ahead
In the great digital leap, roughly $158 billion in brick-and-mortar sales are moving online, according to PYMNTS’ analysis. And with the continued...
