- April 17, 2024
Earlier this year, Visa and PYMNTS Intelligence trained a spotlight on the Click-and-Mortar™ shopper.
This fast-growing segment, who seek digital features with the instant gratification of in-store shopping, offers both challenge and opportunity for merchants ...
- April 15, 2024
The U.S. Supreme Court made a significant decision in a complicated case regarding ATM fees Monday (April 15), putting the spotlight on the use of cash and access to it. ...
- April 11, 2024
There’s no business like a B2B business.
And successful business-to-business (B2B) strategies — and the companies deploying them — are characterized by agility, innovation, and a focus on delivering value to ...
- April 10, 2024
Airwallex has launched the Borderless Visa Card for businesses in Canada.
The virtual card, announced Wednesday (April 10), is issued by Peoples Trust Company and lets Canadian businesses make payments anywhere Visa is accepted.
“Operating across ...
- April 10, 2024
The jury is still out as to how artificial intelligence (AI) will affect jobs in the financial services industry. But if the past six weeks have shown anything, it is ...
- April 4, 2024
Visa and Skipify partnered to streamline consumers’ checkout experience with Skipify’s next-generation digital wallet.
The collaboration will enable Skipify customers in a growing number of global markets to link Visa Click to Pay cards with their ...
- April 3, 2024
From Netflix and Spotify to Amazon Prime, it’s increasingly common for consumers to maintain multiple subscriptions. However, juggling these subscriptions across a web of apps can be challenging, especially when ...
- April 3, 2024
Visa launched a new Subscription Manager service that financial institutions can provide to Visa cardholders.
The new service provides a single place where consumers can see where their card details are stored, ...
- April 3, 2024
Accessing working capital enables companies to avoid operational disturbances in the short term and power growth for the long term. In the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region, 66% of Growth Corporates accessed ...
- April 2, 2024
Interoperability in payments — paying anyone, anywhere, no matter the network — remains a Holy Grail in payments.
And interoperability is a work in progress. But bit by bit and app ...
- April 2, 2024
2019, the year of the payments industry mega-deals, seems long ago and far away.
Before the pandemic, the headlines were awash in waves of verticalization, where large firms scooped up other ...
- April 2, 2024
Visa said PayPal and Venmo are now offering its Visa+ peer-to-peer (P2P) payment system.
“As we continue to expand the P2P use case in the U.S., Current and Western Union will join PayPal and Venmo in enabling cross-platform money movement,” the company ...
- April 1, 2024
Earnings season begins anew in just a few weeks, documenting the first few months of the year — and how the March quarter shaped up for all manner of enterprises.
And ...
- March 29, 2024
This week, Mastercard and Visa reached a multi-billion dollar settlement that may bring an end to 20-year legal battle between the two financial giants and merchants.
Merchants have long complained that the ...
- March 28, 2024
Visa and Alaan have partnered to provide digital expense management solutions to businesses in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Saudi Arabia.
The companies’ five-year strategic alliance brings together the VisaNet global payment processing network ...
- March 28, 2024
Consumers increasingly want digital innovation no matter where they shop. Industry giants typically hold an edge in providing more digital shopping features because of their size and scale. However, savvy ...
- March 27, 2024
As real-time and account-to-account transactions rise and payments fraud continues to rise with them, Visa is putting artificial intelligence (AI) to work. The company announced Wednesday (March 27) that it ...
- March 27, 2024
Digital features were once the exclusive domain of online shoppers. Just as savvy in-store shoppers knew where to find the bargain bin, savvy online shoppers knew where to click to ...
- March 26, 2024
The simple math on the swipe fee agreement reached by Visa and Mastercard announced Tuesday (March 26) indicates that consumers may not feel much impact at all, at the register, ...
- March 26, 2024
Visa said its token service has been a boon for the Asia-Pacific region’s digital economy.
The region saw an “uplift” of more than $2 billion last year due to Visa token service (VTS) adoption, ...
- March 26, 2024
Mastercard and Visa have reached a class action settlement with U.S. merchants, in a deal that aims to end 20 years of antitrust litigation around swipe fees and restrictions placed ...
- March 21, 2024
Cross-border payments firm Thunes is expanding its partnership with Visa into Asia and Africa.
The new collaboration, announced Thursday (March 21), will see Visa tap into Thunes’ network to send payments to over 108 digital ...
- March 21, 2024
On the face of it, eCommerce has all the hallmarks of magic, especially for small to medium-sized businesses.
Imagine: You’re out to lunch with a circle of friends. One of them ...
- March 20, 2024
Visa Cross-Border Solutions and LemFi have expanded their existing partnership globally.
This partnership brings together the capabilities of Visa Cross-Border Solutions, which is a Visa division specializing in cross-border money movement, and LemFi, which is ...
- March 20, 2024
Berlin-based payment processor Micropayment is partnering with Tink, a payment services and data enrichment platform, to enable Europe-based merchants to offer pay-by-bank at checkout.
Micropayments works with merchants across industries, including fundraising and nonprofit, ...
- March 20, 2024
Integrating online features and in-store shopping is reshaping the shopping experience in the U.K. However, more than one-quarter of U.K. merchants don’t offer the digital shopping features customers want. Even ...
- March 19, 2024
First-party fraud is, increasingly, warranting a first line of defense from the payments networks, using data and AI to uncover what’s really going on with transactions and whether consumers are ...
- March 18, 2024
For the past 15 years, blockchain has been attempting to transform the global financial system. Or, if you listen to some of the earlier adherents of the digital asset sector, ...
- March 14, 2024
Chargebacks have long been a thorny issue for merchants. And as transactions become increasingly digitized, chargebacks have in turn become more prevalent.
They not only represent a loss of revenue but ...
- March 12, 2024
For enterprises large and small, the back office remains a key component ripe for modernization.
And modernizing the workflows that take place, increasingly, involves payments functionality.
Recent announcements from larger enterprise resource ...
- March 12, 2024
Visa has launched a collaboration with SAP-owned working capital management solutions provider Taulia.
The partnership, announced Tuesday (March 12), brings together Visa’s digital payments technology and Taulia Virtual Cards, a solution that integrates with SAP’s ...
- March 12, 2024
All companies in growth mode need access to capital, whether to fund short-term operational needs, mitigate unexpected expenses or execute plans for growth. One key demographic of these firms are ...
- March 11, 2024
The holy grail of payments — for merchants, for consumers and financial institutions — has two essentials:
Reduced friction, and reduced fraud.
Individuals want to be “known” to the entities with which ...
- March 11, 2024
In 1955, the island nation of Borneo was in the throes of a serious malaria virus outbreak. It turned to The World Health Organization for help. WHO recommended spraying massive ...
- March 8, 2024
Banyan has appointed former Uber, PayPal and Visa executive Vish Shastry as chief product officer.
“We are thrilled to welcome Vish to Banyan,” Jehan Luth, founder and CEO of Banyan, said in a Thursday (March 7) blog post. “He’s an innovator, ...
- March 7, 2024
A strategic, forward-thinking approach to working capital helps separate top-performing middle-market firms from their peers, according to Visa.
The latest release of the “2023-2024 Growth Corporates Working Capital Index,” noted that ...
- March 6, 2024
India wants its banks to stop forging exclusive arrangements with credit card networks.
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) — the country’s central bank and bank regulator — announced the move on its ...
- March 6, 2024
DailyPay has joined forces with Visa+ to offer millions of its users a more interoperable and efficient means to manage their earnings.
For DailyPay users, the integration of Visa+ into DailyPay’s ...
- March 6, 2024
In the bid to build out a pan-European card network, will it be different this time?
More than a decade ago, the Monnet Project Association, a group of 24 European banks ...