Visa is buying Plaid — the startup that develops APIs for financial services — for $5.3 billion. By helping to bridge the gap between apps and consumers, Plaid brings new fund flows and payment integration capabilities to Visa. The payments giant sees opportunity to bolster...
It wasn’t long ago that the measure of a car or truck revolved around such things as the punch and pull of the engine, the smoothness of the transmission, perhaps even the thump of the stereo system. Those days are not exactly gone (those types...
When Sabre and Visa announced a new partnership in April to pair Visa virtual commercial cards with the Sabre Virtual Payments gateway, the goals were fairly big: create a virtual B2B travel payments solution that was faster, more secure and more transparent for buyers and suppliers....
Visa is teaming up with TD Bank to introduce a new solution to ease money transfers between Canadian and U.S. accounts, Visa announced Monday (Dec. 23). Powered by Visa Direct, the latest solution — TD Bank (US) to TD (Canada) Transfer — enables real-time transfers...
When Visa, Chase, New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), and other industry leaders co-launched a contactless payments pilot seven months ago, they started small, and with modest goals. This “public pilot” made contactless payments available on a few train lines, and only at 16 stations,...
Since the rise of M-Pesa in 2007, mobile money wallets have become prevalent across Africa. And while that addition to the market has made many things possible for consumers in formerly cash-locked economies, there has been a persistent problem of limitations for users once they...
Visa has announced it’s going to start a new certification program in dispute resolution, as well as fund up to 500 scholarships to offset the cost of the training, according to a press release. The applicants will become certified dispute resolution professionals, which Visa noted...
Visa is collaborating with four global finance firms to help FinTechs issue plastic and digital payments, the company announced in a press release on Monday (Dec. 2). The four new partners — Episode Six, Euronet Worldwide, Global Processing Services and M2P Solutions — have joined...
A new version of the card skimmer resides on eCommerce checkout pages, where fraudsters steal consumers' data as it is entered. The newest sinister iteration of JavaScript skimming, Pipka, disappears from the merchant site after the data is stolen — meaning that it's tough to...
