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May 28, 2023 @ 10:57 am By Omar Faridi  |  

EML Payments Limited (ASX: EML), a payment solutions provider, is working with Visa, a world leader in digital payments, in order “to offer its private label digital gift cards product serving its broad shopping center and multi-retailer customer base in the United States and Canada.”… Read More

May 25, 2023 @ 1:57 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Visa Inc. (NYSE: V), which claims to be a global leader in digital payments, announced that it plans to open a new global Technology and Product Hub in Poland that will be the first of its kind for Visa in Central and Eastern Europe. The… Read More

May 19, 2023 @ 5:26 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

axis, a digital payments platform for small businesses, has launched its services, in partnership with Visa (NYSE: V). axis has obtained the license from the Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) “for its open-loop mobile wallet, offering a digital banking alternative for small businesses and their… Read More

May 11, 2023 @ 11:48 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Visa (NYSE: V), a firm focused on digital payments, was one of nine finalists tasked with exploring innovative blockchain-based use cases for the Real Digital (Brazil’s central bank-issued digital currency, or CBDC) as part of the most recent LIFT Challenge. The company partnered with Agrotoken,… Read More

April 13, 2023 @ 4:01 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Visa (NYSE: V) announced it is partnering with PayPal and Venmo in order to pilot Visa+, an innovative service that aims to help individuals move money quickly and securely between different person-to-person (P2P) digital payment apps. Later this year, Venmo and PayPal users in the… Read More

March 30, 2023 @ 11:00 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Pinwheel, the provider of income and employment data provider engineered for fintech innovation, joined the Visa Fintech Partner Connect program. Visa Fintech Partner Connect participants “are Visa Ready certified by Visa and trusted by the global payments ecosystem to help technology companies build and launch… Read More

March 29, 2023 @ 8:51 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Remittances are not only a lifeline for millions of migrant workers and their families, they are also vitally important “for the prosperity of many developing economies around the world,” according to an update from Visa (NYSE: V). As the amount of global remittance inflows continues… Read More

March 29, 2023 @ 4:39 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Global payments technology company, Brightwell, announced that it is making it easier for fintechs, money transmitters, and prepaid and banking providers to integrate real-time payment technology into their solutions utilizing ReadyRemit via Visa Direct. Through this collaboration, Brightwell customers can “launch a fully managed cross-border… Read More

March 23, 2023 @ 11:22 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

It’s already “trusted,” fully regulated and bringing simplified and secured investing to 20+ million customers, the team at Bitpanda wrote in a blog post. Now, they’re announcing that Visa (NYSE: V) has partnered with Bitpanda, bringing Bitpanda Technology Solutions to its vast network of institutional… Read More

March 12, 2023 @ 11:18 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

F5 (NASDAQ: FFIV) announced it is partnering with Visa, the digital payments giant, to help merchants securely reduce login friction for customers. Customers expect seamless commerce experiences and transactions “to be secure.” Yet, in today’s digital-first world, customers are “under threat from bad actors looking… Read More

March 1, 2023 @ 8:19 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Payment firms Visa (NYSE: V) and Mastercard (NYSE: MA) are reportedly taking a step back from forming new partnerships with cryptocurrency-focused companies. This, after the collapse of major businesses operating in the nascent industry. As first reported by Reuters, the crypto-assets sector experienced somewhat of… Read More

February 27, 2023 @ 10:19 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Astra, the automation platform for money movement, announced the success of its Instant Payment solution leveraging the Visa Direct network. Through a strategic partnership with Cross River Bank, a technology infrastructure provider that offers embedded financial solutions, Astra provides first-of-its-kind infrastructure “that enables fintech developers… Read More

February 17, 2023 @ 12:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Visa Inc. (NYSE: V) announced new offers aimed “to help small and micro businesses (SMBs) accept digital payments, fine-tune their essential systems and save on the technology needed to grow and build business resilience.” With Visa SavingsEdge, eligible Visa Small Business cardholders can “unlock automatic… Read More

February 14, 2023 @ 5:59 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Wirex, a crypto payments platform, has signed a long-term strategic global partnership with payments company network, Visa. This includes “becoming a member of Visa in APAC and the UK that will allow Wirex to directly issue crypto-enabled debit and prepaid cards themselves to over 40… Read More

February 2, 2023 @ 8:48 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

P97 Networks, a connected commerce, mobile payments, and mobility services provider, announced that it is teaming up with Visa to deploy its token technology. This collaboration will “help reduce friction with in-car payments, enable EV charging payments across public networks, and further accelerate mobile payment… Read More

January 24, 2023 @ 10:20 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Touch ‘n Go Group, via the Touch ‘n Go eWallet, has formed a strategic partnership with Visa, the world’s leader in digital payments, in order “to launch the first corporate social responsibility (CSR)-linked Visa prepaid card in Malaysia.” The design of the new Visa card… Read More

January 20, 2023 @ 9:05 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Alchemy Pay team is pleased to announce that Visa has listed Alchemy Pay as an Official Service Provider. Alchemy Pay has been “added as part of Visa’s Third Party Agent (TPA) Program and can be found listed as Alchemy GPS here.” This is “a… Read More

January 8, 2023 @ 6:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Visa (NYSE: V), which claims to be a world leader in digital payments, is announcing an open call for startups across the APAC region in order to apply for the Visa Accelerator Program 2023 and applications will close on January 10, 2022. Currently in its… Read More

January 7, 2023 @ 3:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

With Singapore consumers living their lives online, nearly eight out of 10 (around 77%) would like the option to control their data instead of leaving it up to the discretion of firms and governments, according to Consumer Data Confidence Research shared by Visa (NYSE: V)…. Read More

December 30, 2022 @ 4:59 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Enfuce, the Finnish cloud-native issuing and processing pioneer, has announced the launch of a pilot project with social enterprise Welcome.Place, Finnish mobile payments provider for employment benefits Epassi, and digital payments giant Visa in order “to distribute prepaid payment cards to refugees arriving in France.”… Read More