Wirecard releases Visa card for Chinese tourists
A multi-currency card for the most frequented destinations.
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Visa to acquire Earthport for £198m
Struggling payments firm finds the deal “very attractive”.
Visa brandishes Shieldpay for safe P2P payments
Getting clever for cards on peer-to-peer marketplaces.
Contis and Visa unleash fast-track fintech programme
Will give firms access to payment cards and banking capabilities.
Lastminute.com launches travel Visa card
Online travel agency teams with Wirecard for multi-currency offering.
Visa making a stand in India with BillDesk investment
As it faces fierce local competition.
Visa and Billtrust team to digitise US B2B payments with Business Payments Network
Visa and Billtrust have joined forces to develop Billtrust’s Business Payments Network (BPN).
Visa step closer to B2B Connect launch, onboards new partners
IBM, Hyperledger and Bottomline are among Visa’s new partners for B2B Connect.
Jaja Finance launches first product following £7m funding
Making credit cards simple to get.
Stripe and Visa join $8m funding round in African start-up Paystack
Nigerian payments firm also gets help from Tencent and Y Combinator.
Paytech Paidy sitting pretty with Visa investment
Japanese post-pay outfit goes public with Visa backing.
Visa invests in Behalf for SME financing push
All part of Visa’s commitment to invest up to $100m in fintech.
Visa and MoneyGram team up for cross-border payments
Will use Visa Direct, its real-time push payments platform.
Saudi Arabia going mada with NFC mobile payments by Visa
In an effort to digitise the country by 2030.
Antelop to provide mobile e-wallet for Greek Piraeus Bank
Mobile payments coming to Piraeus customers.
The impact of the new Visa Claims Resolution
Visa has just changed how it addresses the process for disputes on transactions, i.e. chargebacks.
Top fintech stories this week – 22 June 2018
Catch up on FinTech Futures’ top five fintech stories of the week – all in one place!
Visa reveals over 5m payments affected by June outage
Half of which were in the UK.
Visa Canada puts finishing touch on Finn AI’s chatbot banking
“Where is the closest ATM?” or “Please cancel my card”.
Money20/20 Europe keynote: the age of invisible payments (and apology from Visa)
Innovation benefits the entire ecosystem, states Visa Europe’s CEO.
Visa hit by payment outages across Europe
Update – 2 June – situation now resolved.
OCBC Bank Singapore’s first in instant digital card issuing
Within minutes of applying for an OCBC Bank card, you could be using it via Apple Pay.
Amazon eyes PayPal’s crown with Alexa payments platform
E-commerce titan could be taking on Visa, Mastercard and PayPal.
Uber gives drivers a lift with Visa Debit Card
But it also faces tax problems in Denmark.
Banking Technology March 2018 issue out now
Fintech with flourish. Nourish your brain.
CaixaBank and Visa take it up a watch with Garmin Pay
Watch out fintech folks, Spain gets a wearable look.
Visa and Allianz partner to create mobile payment app
Allianz Prime app is “first of its kind” in insurance industry.
Degussa Bank finds its Germanic match with API start-up Giromatch
Team up to launch pilot project offering virtual Visa credit card for shopping with Amazon Business.
Coinbase customers bugged by overcharging caper
And a blame game with Visa begins.
Top fintech stories this week – 16 February 2018
Catch up on FinTech Futures’ top five fintech stories of the week – all in one place!
Visa buys payments firm Fraedom
Fraedom has been a Visa partner for nearly ten years.
Visa pilots new biometric payment card
With Mountain America Credit Union and Bank of Cyprus for a new EMV dual-interface card.
Startupbootcamp launches Scale innovation programme for start-ups
Startupbootcamp has unveiled the launch of Startupbootcamp Scale, an innovation programme for growth stage start-ups in emerging markets.
Payments round-up: 4 December 2017
Betas, big numbers and the big match. Our latest payments round-up features Emma Technologies, Yolt, and Visa and the football World Cup in 2018.
Spafinder Improves Gifting Options ahead of Holidays
Spafinder, a marketing, gifting, incentives and rewards brand owned by Blackhawk Network, has unveiled new gift card technology, expanded distribution and additional partner services to make giving the gift of spa and beauty experiences easier for consumers and businesses.
Earnings Roundup: Amex, BofA, Blackhawk, Visa
It was a busy week for second- and fiscal third-quarter earnings reports, with American Express, Bank of America and Visa all beating Wall Street expectations, and Blackhawk Network, which also beat analyst predictions, talking international growth, double-digit digital gift card sales and new partner Target set to roll out in Q3.
mVisa Takes on M-PESA with Free Domestic Mobile Money Transfers
Move over M-PESA, customers of a Visa-led bank partnership in Kenya will be able to send money to each other domestically without paying transaction fees using mVisa, and the payments network has added additional in-store merchant acceptance for the QR-code-based payment method.
Investment Roundup: Visa Buys Stake in Klarna; Revolut, Tango Land Financing
Investors continue to show strong interest in fintech-based payments services providers, as Visa acquires an equity share in fast-growing Swedish e-commerce specialist Klarna, and startups Revolut and Tango Card land significant financing rounds.
Payscout Launches Virtual Reality Commerce with Visa’s Help
Retail payments have taken another step into the future. Payment processor Payscout has launched a virtual reality system that employs Visa Checkout and enables consumers to examine products before ordering them for delivery to shoppers’ homes.
Visa Bolsters Transaction Security
Visa is beefing up its Verified by Visa authentication service. The payments network said it’s upgrading its back-end to support 3-D Secure 2.0. The 3-D Secure messaging protocol was invented by the network more than 15 years ago and has become an industry standard for online authentication.
