To the average consumer, payments looks pretty simple and straightforward — especially when paying online. Enter a card number, hit buy and a millisecond later, the countdown to getting the goods begins. For those that use a mobile wallet, it’s even simpler. And while building all...
Visa said Wednesday (Oct. 26) that it is expanding features tied to its registry of service providers. That registry, the payments giant said in a blog post, includes listings of, and information about, payment service providers who store, process and also transmit Visa cardholder data....
How many times have you wished for a place to go on the web that would cut through the mumbo jumbo and clearly (and cleverly) unpack the complexities of payments? Today, your wish is our command. Visa Developer, in collaboration with PYMNTS, launches Payology —...
Visa’s top management ranks shuffled Monday (Oct. 17) as the payments company said CEO Charles Scharf would resign late this year and will be replaced by Alfred Kelly, Jr., who currently sits on the company’s board of directors and who served formerly as president of...
Visa Inc. announced on Tuesday (Sept. 20) that changes coming to Verified by Visa, its online authentication service, and to Three-Domain Secure (3-D Secure), the industry-wide messaging protocol for online authentication, will make eCommerce payments more secure and convenient for consumers, merchants and financial institutions....
In an effort to bridge what is increasingly being known as the “inclusion gap” for minorities, Visa is finding promise in supporting products for financial inclusion in the credit union and community bank portfolio. The goal? To hurdle the financial gap that exists for these...
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 is essentially a shot across the bow at M-Pesa. Dubbed mVisa, it allows consumers to...
Visa is gearing up to roll out a lineup of payment experiences during the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), which it has been sponsoring for 20 years. At the festival, which runs through Sept. 18, Visa will enable festival goers to experience a Connected Screen powered...
The Olympics are undeniably about sports. Sure, there’s the part about international community and the peaceful interaction of nations – but there is a reason people from around the world tune in, en masse, to the Olympics and not to the U.N. when it is...
