What you don’t know can, indeed, hurt you — especially when it comes to chargeback liability. The waters of transaction disputes are challenging even today, but as of April 15, 2018, things will get a little more challenging, at least for a while. That’s the date...
Visa announced news on Wednesday (Jan. 31) that Visa Checkout, the online payment method introduced in the United Kingdom in the middle of 2017, hit a milestone by securing 1 million customer accounts. The company said the U.K. is now among the fastest-growing markets for...
Visa’s Chief Executive Alfred Kelly expressed skepticism about the cryptocurrency bitcoin, reportedly saying it’s not money and that the payment company won’t get involved with it. Citing comments the CEO made at a National Retail Federation (NRF) conference this week, CNBC reported news that Kelly said...
Anyone who’s ever checked into a hotel knows the drill. Traveler, usually tired traveler, walks through the front door, approaches the front desk to check in, presents a method of payment and form of ID to authenticate herself, and is then presented with her room...
The automotive world is on the precipice of a major change – a shifting of its gears, to use a fitting metaphor. And mostly because it doesn’t have a choice. Travel back in time but a few years ago, and the buzz among automotive OEMs was...
No more signatures. Visa said Jan. 12 in a blog post that it is making the signature an option — and no longer a requirement — for EMV chip-enabled merchants across North America. That shift, for contact or contactless chip card payments, goes into effect in...
Visa, the payments company, has terminated its relationship with WaveCrest, a cryptocurrency card provider. Citing an email from WaveCrest, CNBC reported the company said it has been forced to close all Visa cards, which left thousands of people with declined transactions and worries about how...
BigCommerce, the cloud eCommerce platform, and Visa, the payments company, announced news on Wednesday (Dec. 20) of a new partnership in which Visa Checkout is coming to BigCommerce merchants. In a press release, the companies said more than 55,000 small- and mid-sized retailers can now...
Visa, the payments company, revealed Monday (Dec. 18) in an infographic that counterfeit fraud is down in the U.S. at merchants that are using chip-enabled cards. According to the Visa press release, counterfeit fraud at U.S. chip-enabled merchants was down 66 percent in June of...
