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May 6, 2025
On the web
Visa Invests in Stablecoin Platform BVNK as It Doubles Down on Digital Asset Strategy
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."
May 1, 2025
On the web
Visa Launches AI Agents for Shopping [Video]
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."
April 30, 2025
Top Post
Find and Buy with AI: Visa Unveils New Era of Commerce
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."
The Future is Here: Visa Announces New Era of Commerce Featuring AI
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 and Bridge Partner to Make Stablecoins Accessible for Everyday Purchases
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."
April 11, 2025
On the web
Visa, USSC Money Services Enable Visa Direct for Cross-Border B2B Payments
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."
April 4, 2025
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Visa Unveils Slate of New Services to Power Client Growth
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."
April 3, 2025
On the web
Visa Unveils a Trio of New Tools To Make the Payments Process Easier
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."
March 21, 2025
On the web
Visa and Misa Partner To Drive Digital Payments in Vietnamese Businesses
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."
March 20, 2025
On the web
One Click and That’s It: Worldpay and Visa Deliver Single Click Checkout to the UK
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."
March 19, 2025
On the web
Visa Stay Secure: Consumers Embrace Security Measures as Digital Payments Adoption is Set to Grow in the UAE
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."
March 18, 2025
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Visa Partners With Major Banks to Launch Vbip in Australia
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."
March 12, 2025
On the web
Visa Unveils its Scam Disruption Practice, Helping Protect Consumers and the Financial Ecosystem Globally
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."
March 11, 2025
On the web
Mastercard, Visa Pledge Vigilance Following Investigation Into Payments to Illegal Gambling Sites
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."
March 10, 2025
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Visa’s Updated VAMP Program: What Merchants Need to Know
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."
March 6, 2025
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Visa and Mastercard Face Regulatory ‘Remedies’ Over Lack of Competition [UK]
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."
March 5, 2025
On the web
Visa CEMEA Security Summit 2025: The Future of Digital Payments & Security [Video]
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."
March 3, 2025
On the web
Visa Tap to Phone Adoption Soars: 200% Year-over-Year Growth Worldwide
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"
February 25, 2025
On the web
Visa Advocates for ‘Transformational Power’ of Digital Identity and Payments
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."
February 4, 2025
On the wires
Checkbook Launches Global Push-to-Card Payments Powered by Visa Direct
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."
February 3, 2025
On the web
What Lies Ahead for The XMoney-Visa Partnership?
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."
January 30, 2025
On the web
ServiceNow Expands Strategic Alliance With Visa
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)."
January 29, 2025
On the web
More UAE Consumers Using Digital Payments, Yet 23% of Transactions Still in Cash: Visa’s Latest ‘Where Cash Hides’ Research
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."
January 28, 2025
On the web
X Announces a Partnership With Visa to Power X Money’s Wallet
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."
January 27, 2025
On the web
Visa & Fintech DealMe Launch Cross-Border Card Installment Payments [Vietnam]
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.
January 24, 2025
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Visa Completes Acquisition of Pismo
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."
January 23, 2025
On the web
African Fintech Moniepoint Gets Visa Backing, Plans to Work on Contactless Payments
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.
January 21, 2025
On the web
Visa and The Walt Disney Company EMEA Form Strategic Alliance
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."
January 7, 2025
On the web
Visa, Qashio Join Forces on B2B Travel Payments
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."
December 19, 2024
On the web
Visa Completes Acquisition of Featurespace
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."
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