Mvisa news and trends

Visa Rolls Out Free Person-to-Person Digital Payments In Kenya
Mobile Commerce // July 17, 2017

Visa, the credit card company, is enabling customers of Kenya Visa-affiliated banks to send online payments without paying transactions fees. According to a news report citing Visa, the digital payments have to be through mVisa domestically. Last year, the credit card company rolled out mVisa,...

Visa And Interswitch Partner To Speed Up Mobile Payments
VISA // July 03, 2017

Visa, the credit card company, and Interswitch, Africa’s integrated payments and transaction solutions company, announced news on Friday (June 30) that they will partner to accelerate mobile payments adoption across the region. In a press release, the companies said the partnership will see Visa and...

Why The Market Liked Visa’s Quarterly Report Card
VISA // April 21, 2017

Two quarters into Al Kelly's tenure as CEO, Visa reported a 37.2 increase in total payments volume on now 3.1 billion total cards. As for digital, well, that made some news too.

Visa Checkout And The Gift Of Experiences
eCommerce // December 14, 2016

As the band Europe famously sang — we have reached the final countdown when it comes to the holiday retail season. The early shoppers are sitting home, drinking cocoa and feeling superior. The truly professional procrastinators doggedly refuse to so much think about it until next Friday...

Interviews & Exclusives
Visa And The QR Code Evolution/Revolution

August 01, 2017
The QR code hasn’t always seemed like a world-changing technology. When it first appeared in the developed world approximately two decades ago — the technology was first invented in 1994 — to most consumers and corporate onlookers, it seemed like a mildly interesting technology with perhaps a few use cases that would probably never scale. “When […]

Why The Market Liked Visa’s Quarterly Report Card

April 21, 2017
Two quarters into Al Kelly's tenure as CEO, Visa reported a 37.2 increase in total payments volume on now 3.1 billion total cards. As for digital, well, that made some news too.

Visa Checkout And The Gift Of Experiences

December 14, 2016
As the band Europe famously sang — we have reached the final countdown when it comes to the holiday retail season. The early shoppers are sitting home, drinking cocoa and feeling superior....

Quick Reads
Visa Rolls Out Free Person-to-Person Digital Payments In Kenya

July 17, 2017
Visa, the credit card company, is enabling customers of Kenya Visa-affiliated banks to send online payments without paying transactions fees. According to a news report citing Visa, the digital payments have to be through mVisa domestically. Last year, the credit card company rolled out mVisa, which is a QR code digital payment service aimed at […]

Visa And Interswitch Partner To Speed Up Mobile Payments

July 03, 2017
Visa, the credit card company, and Interswitch, Africa’s integrated payments and transaction solutions company, announced news on Friday (June 30) that they will partner to accelerate mobile payments adoption across...

mVisa’s Mobile Pay Platform Rollout Launched

November 08, 2016
mVisa’s new mobile pay service is enabling 60 million more consumers to make digital payments on their mobile devices through a rollout on the Visa Developer Platform. Visa, Micromax and Transerv...

Visa Takes On M-Pesa In The Battle For Kenyan Mobile Payments

September 14, 2016
Competition may be ramping up for M-Pesa in the battle for mobile payments in Kenya. Payments giant Visa is gathering a consortium of Kenyan banks to create a service that...