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."
Visa
Visa's critical investments in the fight against fraud are paying off for holiday shoppers this holiday season. On Cyber Monday alone, Visa blocked nearly 85% more suspected fraud globally compared to last year. Throughout the holiday weekend, suspected fraudulent transactions rose 200% around the world, due in part by the adoption of AI by fraudsters.
Visa
"Visa announced that with Visa Direct, funds transferred to U.S. bank accounts will be available within 1 minute or less starting in April 2025. Consumers, businesses, and governments can use Visa Direct to deposit funds to bank accounts linked to eligible debit cards in real-time ."
Visa
"New research from Visa reveals that more than two fifths (41%) of small-medium businesses in the UK have been a victim of fraud, with the average amount lost due to fraudsters in the last year being £3,808. With small-medium businesses (SMBs) making up 99.9% of the business population (5.6 million businesses), Visa’s research highlights the potentially devastating financial impact of fraud on businesses and the UK economy."
Visa
"At the opening session of Web Summit in Lisbon, Portugal, Visa unveiled commitments to digital creators. Visa officially recognized creators as small businesses. Visa is also helping creators get paid fast. Visa Direct is addressing this through partnerships with social media networks and marketplaces to help creators get payouts in real-time to their eligible debit card."
Visa
"Visa announced that the Flexible Credential is expanding to the U.S. and will be rolling out with Affirm, and in the United Arab Emirates with Liv, giving millions more people greater choice and control over how they pay."
PR Newswire
"Visa, a global leader in digital payments, announced collaborations with QR payment providers to allow consumers to use their digital wallets to scan and pay at point-of-sale QR when they travel abroad. The pilot program will begin in Singapore, with more to be rolled out across the region in the coming year."
Visa
"Visa announced a partnership with Coinbase, a trusted place to buy, sell, and manage crypto. This partnership adds convenience and new services for Coinbase customers across the US and EU, including real-time, reliable, and secure money movement."
Visa
"Visa announced a partnership with Coinbase, a trusted place to buy, sell, and manage crypto. This partnership adds convenience and new services for Coinbase customers across the US and EU, including real-time, reliable, and secure money movement."
WSJ
Visa plans to lay off around 1,400 employees and contractors by the end of the year, according to people familiar with the matter, as part of a plan to streamline its international business. [Subscription Required]
Visa
"Visa announced new capabilities that enable frictionless, provisioned virtual card push-to-wallet experiences. Users can now seamlessly push virtual cards to mobile wallet ecosystems including Apple Pay and Google Pay, with control and security that allows for precise spending limits and monitoring of transactions, thereby minimizing the risk of fraud and unauthorized expenditures."
Visa
"Visa announced it is working jointly with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to improve access to open, secure, and inclusive digital government systems across the world. Following the recent launch of USAID’s Digital Policy, Visa and USAID will work together for five years to focus on developing programs to assist governments in creating and adopting platforms that connect their constituents with local government services."
Visa
"Ahead of Money20/20 US, Visa, published the State of Scams: Fall 2024 Biannual Threats Report. The latest edition of the report brings to light several emerging threats and scams targeting banks and consumers, including a surprising resurgence of small-scale physical crime."
Worldline
"Worldline has announced plans to collaborate with Visa Acceptance Solutions, to launch an optimized fraud management solution. The relationship leverages both companies’ extensive transactional data and expertise, augmenting Worldline’s payment services with Cybersource Decision Manager solution to provide businesses with fraud detection across industries."
WSJ
"Visa is winning the decadeslong battle for control over how U.S. consumers pay for everything. It got here in part by paying for competition to go away and by using fees as weapons to make partners bend to its wishes. [Subscription Required]"
Yahoo Finance
"Mastercard and Visa have warned of the "unintended consequences" if the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) makes changes to card fees. The RBA is conducting a large-scale investigation into the card system, how they affect people across the country, and whether they're still fit for purpose more than 20 years after they were introduced."
Visa
"Visa announced that it has entered into a new strategic partnership with Analytic Partners, a global analytics solution provider. Together, Visa and Analytic Partners plan to address commercial challenges faced by merchants and brands, including improving the return on advertising investments, with value-enhancing AI-driven data analytics."
Visa Middle East
"As remittances remain a lifeline for millions of expatriates in the UAE and their families, Visa’s annual “Money Travels: 2024 Digital Remittances Adoption” research report found that UAE remittance senders are primarily motivated by the need to provide regular support to their families abroad and address unexpected emergencies."
Open Banking Expo
"Tink, A Visa Solution, recently ran an out-of-home campaign with its partner Splitwise, showcasing how the bill-sharing app has introduced Pay by Bank payments, so that users can pay friends and family more easily."
Visa
"Visa is helping to bridge existing fiat currencies with blockchains through the Visa Tokenized Asset Platform ( VTAP), a new product designed to help financial institutions issue and manage fiat-backed tokens on blockchain networks."