Crypto Briefing
"Visa Ventures, Visa’s global investment arm, has made an investment in BVNK, a stablecoin payment infrastructure provider. “We’re proud to support BVNK as they help accelerate global adoption of stablecoin payments,” said Rubail Birwadker, Head of Growth Products and Partnerships at Visa, in a statement. Birwadker said the move reflects Visa’s belief that stablecoins are becoming a mainstream part of global payments. This also marks the company’s first strategic investment in stablecoin infrastructure."
YouTube
"Visa announced that it is allowing customers to use AI platforms to make purchases and is collaborating with Anthropic, Microsoft Corp, OpenAI and other AI firms on the product launch. Visa CEO Ryan McInerney speaks with Bloomberg Technology's Caroline Hyde about how the company is enabling AI agents to help customers save time on finding and paying for the ideal item or service online."
Visa
"AI is transforming how we shop and pay. Visa is bringing the power of its network and decades-long expertise to bring trust and security to AI-driven commerce. Introduced today at the Visa Global Product Drop, Visa Intelligent Commerce enables AI to find and buy. It is a groundbreaking new initiative that opens Visa’s payment network to the developers and engineers building the foundational AI agents transforming commerce."
Visa
"Visa kicked off its Global Product Drop by sharing how the combination of AI and digital commerce will mark a significant shift in the way consumers discover and buy products and services. In the near future, consumers will enable AI agents to browse, select, purchase and manage on their behalf. For this to be possible, agents will need to be trusted with payments, not only by users, but by banks and sellers as well."
Visa
"Stablecoins – once a technology confined to crypto communities – are making their way into headlines, dinner party conversations and soon, everyday transactions. Visa, and Bridge, a leading stablecoin orchestration platform and a Stripe company, announced a new card-issuing product. Fintech developers using Bridge can now offer stablecoin-linked Visa cards to their end customers in multiple countries through a single API integration."
Asian Banking & Finance
"Visa has partnered with USSC Money Services Inc. (UMSI) to launch Visa Direct in the Philippines. With Visa Direct, UMSI’s business clients can reportedly make faster cross-border outbound payments. Visa Direct facilitates the transfer of funds directly to eligible Visa Direct cards, bank accounts, and wallets in many jurisdictions around the world."
Visa
"Visa has expanded its value-added services portfolio with the addition of three new products: reimagined Authorize.net, Unified Checkout, and the ARIC Risk Hub. Launched at TRANSACT 2025, Visa’s newest value-added services include: Reimagined Acceptance Capabilities, Unified Checkout Experience, and Enhanced Fraud Protection."
Fast Company
"At Visa’s ETA Transact event [Apr 3], they introduced three new products designed to simplify and secure payment acceptance. These innovations—Authorize.net 2.0, Unified Checkout, and the ARIC Risk Hub—aiming to enhance efficiency and fraud protection for businesses navigating an increasingly complex commercial landscape. By integrating the three new tools, Visa seeks to service businesses end to end—from integrating with existing platforms to accepting more payments, reducing checkout friction, and managing risk efficiently."
IBS Intelligence
"Visa and MISA, a provider of digital transformation solutions for finance, accounting, and enterprise management, have teamed up to empower Vietnamese businesses through comprehensive digital payment solutions. This collaboration aims to accelerate digital transformation within Vietnam’s business community, fostering greater financial inclusion and operational efficiency for enterprises of all sizes."
Worldpay
"With the aim to deliver payments experiences consumers love, Worldpay ® has joined forces with Visa to bring their Click to Pay payment option to merchants in the U.K. Worldpay customers using the company’s hosted payments pages can simply turn on Click to Pay with Visa without the need for merchant integration or development."
Visa Middle East
"A new study commissioned by Visa reveals a rise in consumer awareness and proactive security measures for digital payments in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The ninth annual Stay Secure study, which surveyed 5,800 adults across 17 CEMEA markets, found that 99% of consumers in the UAE now actively take precautions to secure their online transactions, showcasing increased savviness as digital payments gain momentum."
IT Brief Australia
"Visa has announced a partnership with ANZ, NAB, HSBC, and Westpac to introduce Visa B2B Integrated Payments (VBIP) in Australia, aimed at enhancing and simplifying business-to-business transactions for companies of varying scales. The VBIP solution is integrated within the SAP Business Technology Platform, which helps businesses automate their B2B payments."
Visa
"Visa unveiled its scam disruption practice focused on identifying and stopping complex scams as they emerge. The new department, which sits under Visa Payment Ecosystem Risk and Control (PERC), saved victims $350 million across dozens of scams last year. This is in addition to the $40 billion PERC blocked in attempted fraud on the Visa network last year."
CDC Gaming
"Mastercard and Visa are probing claims that illegal gambling websites facilitated deposits through their networks. An investigation into the sites found that Mastercard and Visa were failing to prevent their networks from being used for those transactions, The Guardian reported last week."
Forter
"Visa is releasing an important update to its fraud and digital monitoring programs with the launch of the newest evolution of the Visa Acquirer Monitoring Program (VAMP). Starting April 1, 2025, this new framework will consolidate and replace the existing VFMP (Visa Fraud Monitoring Program) and VDMP (Visa Dispute Monitoring Program) programs that will impact merchants directly. These changes bring new compliance metrics and stricter threshold updates for disputes."
MSN
"The UK payments regulator has warned Visa and Mastercard it will introduce “remedies” to tackle a lack of competition and transparency in the card payments market that it said was costing British businesses millions of pounds a year. Visa and Mastercard, which account for 95 per cent of all debit and credit card payments in the UK, have increased the fees they charge merchants by 25 per cent above inflation since 2017, costing UK businesses £170mn, the Payment Systems Regulator said on Thursday."
CNBC Africa
"The demand and increase use of digital payments does investments in strong network, security and a seamless payment ecosystem. This Focus On delves deeper into what the risk landscape looks like, how best to prevent fraud and what Visa is doing to shape the payment landscape."
Visa
"Visa’s fast-growing, contactless payment solution Tap to Phone helps SMBs get paid, with nearly 30% of sellers popping up as new small businesses"
Biometric Update
"Visa has set out its stall as it “stands ready” to partner and work with governments at any stage of their digital identity deployment. The company is trying to lead the way with its collaboration with the FIDO Alliance and passkeys. Visa is integrating biometrics-based authentication in payments through Visa Payment Passkeys, a technology based on the FIDO collaboration and which binds an account credential with a device."
Business Wire
"Checkbook's Global Push-to-Card service is now live in multiple countries, with plans to extend its reach further in 2025. The expanded service utilizes Visa Direct’s extensive network, which offers access to 4 billion eligible cards."
Digital Transactions
"Leveraging tie-ins with sister companies to facilitate payments and converting fiat currency to cryptocurrency are some of the possibilities that lay ahead for XMoney, the digital wallet from social-media platform X, in the wake of its partnership with Visa Inc."
Business Wire
"ServiceNow, the AI platform for business transformation, announced an expansion of its strategic alliance with Visa. Visa plans to use the ServiceNow Dispute Management, Built with Visa solution, which includes the AI capabilities of the ServiceNow Platform, to power Visa Dispute Management Service (VDMS) and Visa DPS Dispute Analysis and Support (DAS)."
Visa Middle East
"While the UAE is at the forefront of digital payments, around a quarter (23%) of transactions of consumers surveyed are still in cash, according to the second edition of Visa’s ‘Where Cash Hides’ research."
TechCrunch
"Elon Musk-owned social network X announced a partnership with Visa to handle person-to-person payments for its upcoming X Money product. The company will use Visa Direct, which is Visa’s solution for real-time money transfers, to load money into X Money’s wallet, connect to a debit card for paying other users, and transfer money back to your bank account."
IBS Intelligence
Visa and DealMe have joined forces to address the increasing demand for cross-border shopping and flexible payment options. This collaboration will introduce cross-border card installment payment services, offering greater payment flexibility to Vietnamese and other international consumers.
Pismo
"Visa announced it has completed its acquisition of Pismo – a cloud-native issuer processing and core banking platform. The combination will provide clients with core banking and card-issuer processing capabilities via cloud native APIs. Pismo’s platform also enables Visa to provide connectivity for payment schemes and RTP networks for financial institution clients."
TechCrunch
Visa has joined African fintech Moniepoint as a new investor. The business banking and payments platform confirmed to TechCrunch that it received a “strategic investment” from the global payments giant as both companies look to drive financial inclusion and support the growth of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) across Africa.
Visa
"The Walt Disney Company and Visa announced a strategic alliance that will bring a host of benefits and offers to millions of Disney fans across Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA). The multi-year relationship will make Visa the Official Payment Partner of Disneyland Paris, as well as Disney Store and Disney Theatrical Group in EMEA."
Yahoo Finance
"Visa has collaborated with spend management solutions provider Qashio to launch a B2B travel payments solution. The solution will empower travel companies to obtain Qashio cards, facilitating transactions in multiple currencies such as AED, SAR, USD, EUR, and GBP, all issued from the UAE."
Visa
"Visa announced it has completed its acquisition of Featurespace, a developer of real-time artificial intelligence (AI) payments protection technology that prevents and mitigates payments fraud and financial crime risks. This will bolster Visa’s fraud protection capabilities and enhance security for its customers and consumers worldwide."