Visa


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.

(source: usa.visa.com)

Visa Competing to Acquire Banking and Payments Platform Pismo
Visa Competing to Acquire Banking and Payments Platform Pismo
March 27, 2023  |  Acquisitions

Visa is reportedly competing to acquire cloud-based banking and payments platform Pismo. The company has boosted its offer for the Brazilian-based FinTech company from $1...

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Visa Finds More Consumers Using Digital Apps for Remittances
Visa Finds More Consumers Using Digital Apps for Remittances
March 21, 2023  |  Cross-border Payments

Visa has found that more remittance senders and receivers are using digital apps. Fifty-three percent of these consumers use digital apps to send and receive...

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Visa Says Adoption of Open-Loop Transit Payments Is at a Tipping Point Worldwide
Visa Says Adoption of Open-Loop Transit Payments Is at a Tipping Point Worldwide
March 17, 2023  |  Transportation

As transit systems move away from legacy payment methods like pay-as-you-go passes and toward contactless open-loop payments, it’s creating new commerce possibilities that not only...

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Appeals Court Approves Settlement of Visa and Mastercard Antitrust Suit
Appeals Court Approves Settlement of Visa and Mastercard Antitrust Suit
March 16, 2023  |  Credit Cards

A federal appeals court has approved a settlement of a class-action lawsuit brought against Visa and Mastercard. The settlement, in which the payment card networks...

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Payment Networks Pause Implementation of Code for Gun Shops
Payment Networks Pause Implementation of Code for Gun Shops
March 10, 2023  |  Data

Payment networks have paused their implementation of a new merchant category code for gun shops. American Express, Discover, Mastercard and Visa have done so but have not said that they...

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Krungthai Bank Deploys Visa B2B Connect in Thailand
Krungthai Bank Deploys Visa B2B Connect in Thailand
March 09, 2023  |  B2B Payments

Krungthai Bank (KTB) and Visa have partnered to streamline cross-border corporate payments for Thai businesses. By implementing the Visa B2B Connect solution in Thailand, KTB...

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Visa: Digital-First Governments Use Payments Data to Improve Policy and Financial Access
Visa: Digital-First Governments Use Payments Data to Improve Policy and Financial Access
March 09, 2023  |  Digital Payments

Three years ago, we got a sense of how governments could leverage technology in times of crisis — using digital pipes to get aid to...

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International Women’s Day Revives Debate Over Global Funding Challenge for Female Entrepreneurs
International Women’s Day Revives Debate Over Global Funding Challenge for Female Entrepreneurs
March 08, 2023  |  Investments

From access to education to pay parity and boardroom diversity, much has been done to advance gender equality around the world. But as the world...

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Payments Become Standard Feature in Cars as OEMs Embrace Commerce
Payments Become Standard Feature in Cars as OEMs Embrace Commerce
March 07, 2023  |  Commerce Connected

The connected economy — and specifically, connected commerce — is just getting revved up. And we mean that literally. A spate of recent partnerships and...

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