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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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1.4KVISAVisa Taps Chris Newkirk To Serve As Chief Strategy Officer
To lead strategic planning for the firm overall and in conjunction with its regional teams, Chris Newkirk is coming to Visa Inc. as its...
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2.3KBitcoinBitcoin Daily: Swiss Startup Eidoo Launches Visa-Branded Crypto Debit Card In EU, UK; Louisiana Senate Eyes Licensing Crypto Firms
Swiss startup Eidoo wants it to be easier to pay with bitcoin at points of sale using a debit card, typically a...
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3.0KCryptocurrencyWill The Pandemic Finally Get Central Banks Interested In Building Digital Currencies?
The tipping point might be nigh for digital dollars and other central bank-issued currencies done through bits and bytes. As politicians across...
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2.1KVISAGoodData Partners With Visa On Data Insights
GoodData, a San Francisco-based analytics company, announced an investment and strategic partnership with Visa Inc., one of the world’s largest digital payment...
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5.5KBlockchainVisa Patent Application Seeks To Turn Fiat Currencies Into Digital Blockchain Versions
Credit card giant Visa has filed an application for a U.S. patent on a computer system that would convert physical dollars and other fiat...
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3.6KGig EconomyFinTech Oxygen Introduces eBanking Solution For Gig Economy
Challenger bank Oxygen is rolling out a new platform for financial services tailored to freelancers and independent contractors, the company said in...
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6.5KFaster PaymentsWhy Instant Paychecks Will Be A Necessity Instead Of A Luxury
While many advancements have been made over the last five years toward enabling 9-to-5 employees to gain instant access to wages they...
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3.6KPayment MethodsThe (Digital) Transformation Of Remittances, Bit By Byte
The pandemic has kept us all home — and for firms that have depended on walk-in business, transactions have slowed, or simply...
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5.2KVISAVisa Direct Powers Real-Time Payroll For Frontline Workers
Americans are worried about their finances, a fact highlighted repeatedly in PYMNTS’s ongoing series of studies documenting consumer behaviors during the global...
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2.3KB2B PaymentsCard Ecosystem Elevates Its Value Prop For Corporates
As commercial card transaction volumes climb, two of the industry’s biggest players – Visa and Mastercard – have each announced new solutions...
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4.0KNewsToday In Payments: Frontier Retracts $39 ‘More Room’ Fee On Flights; Square Merchants Shift Online As POS Volumes Sink
In today’s top news, Frontier Airlines retracted its $39 “More Room” fee to ensure an empty seat between passengers, and Square released...
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2.5KNewsToday In Payments: Investigators Question Wells Fargo Over PPP Loans; Visa Leads Latest Funding For FinTech Nium
In today’s top news, officials are investigating wells Fargo regarding its management of Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans, and Visa led the...
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4.5KMobile WalletsVisa, Conferma Pay, Make Corporate ‘On The Go’ Card Spend Tap And Pay
The stage is set for contactless payments in commerce, for plastic to remain in the wallet, and for consumers to embrace digital...
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6.8KCross-border PaymentsVisa Leads Latest Funding For FinTech Startup Nium
FinTech payments startup Nium, based in Singapore, is getting a new round of funding led by new investors Visa and BRI Ventures....
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3.9KBanking‘Green Shoots’ Or Scorched Earth: What We’ve Learned From Banks And Payment Networks’ Latest Earnings Calls
Amid the coronavirus pandemic and recessions, the old saying in life might hold true in business, and in particular for firms that...
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2.9KNewsToday In Payments: Savings Rate Surges To Highest Level In 39 Years; Big Lenders Process Half-Million Loan Applications
In today’s top news, the U.S. savings rate surged in March due to the shaky coronavirus economy, and big banks have processed...
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3.4KEarningsVisa: Tap-to-Pay Transactions Grow 40 Pct YoY
Visa posted fiscal second-quarter results that showed a precipitous falloff in cross-border volumes late in the quarter amid the coronavirus pandemic, alongside...
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2.4KPayment MethodsMobile Remote Payments Are Tailor-Made For Post-Pandemic Business
The two-decade-long trot toward digitization has turned into an all-out wind sprint, propelled by a global pandemic. As the lockdown fog lifts...
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2.0KNewsToday In Payments: PPP Loan Site Flatlines On Second Opening Day; Apple Cuts Back Production For New iPhones
In today’s top news, the PPP loan website collapsed after launching its second round of funding on Monday (April 27), and Apple...
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5.8KDigital PaymentsStripe Rolls Out Major Updates To Core Payments Platform
Stripe, the San Francisco digital payment platform popular with Shopify, Instacart and other major online retailers, announced major updates to its software...
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2.7KNewsToday In Payments: Public Businesses Reap PPP Relief; Grab CEO Says Company Facing ‘Tough Decisions’
In today’s top news, millions of dollars from the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) have not gone to benefit small and medium-sized businesses...
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2.8KB2B PaymentsCorporates Play Payment Rail Musical Chairs
The coronavirus pandemic has some organizations playing payment rails musical chairs in their accounts payable (AP) departments as they adjust payment strategies...
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2.6KVISAVisa To Alert Users When Trial Offers Become Paid Subscriptions
The lure of subscription services often starts with a free trial but too often consumers forget they signed up or stopped using...
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3.9KB2B PaymentsSMBs Find Cash Flow Support In Cards
While small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) continue to hustle to secure portions of various federal coronavirus relief funding, the commercial card industry...
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2.6KBitcoinBitcoin Daily: Canaan Reports $148.6M In Losses For 2019; Shopping App Fold Signs On To Visa Fast Track Program
Canaan Creative, the Chinese bitcoin miner maker, registered a net loss of $148.6 million for last year on $204.3 million in revenue,...
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4.7KInvestmentsHong Kong’s SMB FinTech Neat Nets $11M
Hong Kong-based finance startup Neat has closed a Series A funding round and come away with $11 million, according to a press...
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2.4KB2B PaymentsVisa, Billhop Team Up To Enable Card Supplier Payments
To let companies make payments to their suppliers via card, whether or not the supplier takes card payments, Billhop has rolled out...
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4.7KNewsToday In Payments: Wells Fargo To Cap SMB Bailout Loans At $10B; Apple Buys AI Voice Assistant Startup Voysis
In today’s top news, Wells Fargo began taking loan applications, saying it will disperse $10 billion to nonprofits and small businesses, and...
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5.5KVISAVisa Foundation Pledges $210M For COVID-19-Stricken Businesses
The Visa Foundation announced that it is pledging $210 million to fund two different programs that will support small and micro enterprises...
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15.0KFraud PreventionHow Visa And The US Secret Service Are Flattening The COVID-19 Fraud Curve
Fraudsters don’t get furloughs, they aren’t much for vacationing, and they certainly aren’t above taking advantage of a bad situation. In fact,...
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4.0KNewsToday In Payments: Visa Transaction Volumes Take Coronavirus Hit; Kabbage Furloughs Workers
In today’s top payments news, Visa said transaction volumes have severely decreased due to social distancing coronavirus protocols, and small business lender...
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7.2KVISAVisa Transaction Volumes Take Coronavirus Hit
Visa said it has been adversely affected by the limitations placed on people to avoid spreading the coronavirus, and its transaction volumes...
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6.8KVISAVisa Postpones New Merchant Fees Until July
Visa has delayed the introduction of a new fee structure due to the coronavirus scare, according to a report. The new fee...
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11.4KCoronavirusGetting Stimulus Funds To Those Who Need Them — Without The Paper Check
The stimulus bill designed to combat the economic ravages of COVID-19 is massive. Getting that aid into the hands of affected families...
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16.9KB2B PaymentsInnovating Cross Border B2B Payments: It Takes An Ecosystem
Getting U.S. companies to switch to electronic B2B payments is tough enough, but adoption problems only grow when you add in cross-border...
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2.6KBitcoinBitcoin Daily: CoinZoom Crypto Exchange Debuts Visa Debit Card; Wave Financial To Offer Kentucky Bourbon Tokens As Investment
CoinZoom has officially rolled out an exchange and a CoinZoom Visa card, according to an announcement. Customers will have the ability to...
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7.8KPartnerships / AcquisitionsVisa Teams With Nigeria’s Paga For Global FinTech
Visa is partnering with the Nigeria-based startup Paga to bring payments technology to Africa and abroad, according to reports on Monday (March...
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2.6KThe WeekenderTreasury APIs, BNPL And Robinhood’s Outage Top This Week’s News
It’s the end of the workweek, and the PYMNTS Weekender is here to make sure you didn’t miss anything with the latest...
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2.1KNewsToday In Payments: Ant Financial Acquires Stake In Klarna; Coronavirus Crippling $1.7T Tourism Sector
In today’s top payments news, Ant Financial has acquired a minority stake in FinTech Klarna, the coronavirus has crippled the $1.7 trillion...
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4.7KInvestmentsVisa Partnerships Level The Female Founder Funding Field
On Sunday, the world will celebrate International Women’s Day for the 45th time as a global community since the U.N. first declared...
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2.4KVISASudan Banks And Visa Partner To Bring Payment Systems To Country
Things are changing in Sudan as its banks partner with Visa to introduce payments systems after decades of being shunned by legitimate...
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4.0KNewsToday In Payments: Apple Parts Maker Foxconn Back To Work In China; Two Chinese Nationals Laundered $100M In Crypto
In today’s top news, Apple manufacturer and supplier Foxconn has returned to production, the Department of Justice charged two Chinese nationals with...
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2.3KVISAVisa Kicks Off Women’s History Month With Empowering Partnerships
Visa is kicking off Women’s History Month in March with two nonprofit partnerships — Hand In Hand International and IFundWomen — that...
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4.4KVISAVisa Expects Revenue Hit As Virus Fears Curb Travel, X-Border Payments
Visa has joined in the line of companies with revenue impacted by the coronavirus, as the company announced that spending overseas has...
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4.3KB2B PaymentsVisa, Intuit Partner For India SMB Services
Intuit QuickBooks is forging a new agreement with Visa to fortify its strategy for small and medium-sized business (SMB) customers in India,...
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4.7KBuy Now Pay LaterSplitit Teams With Visa For BNPL Payments
The buy, now pay later (BNPL) technology firm Splitit Payments has partnered with Visa to advance installment payments for merchants and evaluate...
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4.7KInnovationClinc Teams With Visa To Bring Digital Banking Tech To FIs
To provide its digital banking experience to more financial institutions, Clinc is teaming with Visa in a partnership that brings artificial intelligence...
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9.5KPersonnelVisa’s Former Innovation Chief, Jim McCarthy, To Begin Position As President At i2c
There is no lack of good ideas in financial services, nor is there a lack of enthusiasm for putting them in place...
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4.2KB2B PaymentsNew Corporate Payment Tricks For Old Rails
This week’s look at the latest in payment rail innovation finds solution providers largely embracing the opportunity to develop new technologies for...
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4.7KCommentaryThe Week in Payments: Rewriting Rewards, Buying The Bank And Containing COVID-19
That there was a lot of action and motion in the payments and commerce ocean this week is not much of a...
