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Visa Ventures, the Payment Firm’s Fintech Investment Division, Invests Strategically in Analytics Firm GoodData

GoodData, an established global analytics firm, confirmed on May 20, 2020 that it had formed a partnership with digital payments giant Visa (NYSE:V). As noted in a press release, Visa Ventures has made a strategic investment into GoodData’s operations. Visa plans to continue supporting access… Read More

Plaid Launches Plaid Exchange to Accelerate Consumer-Permissioned Data Access Strategies for Financial Institutions

Fintech Plaid has announced the launch of “Plaid Exchange,” an open banking platform for financial institutions. The company states that the API solution for all financial institutions will help propel the industry closer to a fully digital future. Plaid says the launch comes at a… Read More

Visa Teams Up With Safaricom to Enable the Development of Products to Support Digital Payments For M-PESA Customers

Safaricom, a Kenya-based telecom company and operator of M-Pesa, announced last week it has formed a new partnership with Visa (NYSE: V) to enable the development of products that will support digital payments for M-PESA customers. M-Pesa is a mobile banking service that allows users… Read More

Wirecard to be Named Preferred Payment Processor For Visa to Boost Visa Fintech Fast Track Program in the Middle East

  Germany-based global provider of digital payments and commerce solutions Wirecard announced on Monday it has joined forces with Visa to be the preferred payment processor for Visa as a way to boost the Visa Fintech Fast Track Program in the Middle East region. According to… Read More

Mobile Payments Company Paga Partners with Visa to Accelerate Payment Solutions

Mobile payments company Paga earlier this week it has formed a partnership with Visa to accelerate its payment solutions. According to Paga, the Visa partnership is in line with Visa’s goal to drive alternative payment channels, such as mobile wallets, within its global ecosystem. The… Read More

Fiserv Teams Up with Visa, Samsung, PayCore to Test Using Smartphones as PIN-Entry Devices for Retail Payments

Fiserv, Inc. (NASDAQ: FISV), a leading multinational firm focused on offering financial services technology platforms, has teamed up with Visa, Samsung and PayCore in order to test the use of consumer-grade smartphones as PIN-entry devices for retail sales transactions. The new capability can be accessed… Read More

Rapyd Announces Fintech Partnership With Visa

Rapyd, a global B2B Fintech as a Service provider, announced on Tuesday it has signed a new agreement with Visa (NYSE: V) to help expand its worldwide business operations. Through the partnership, Rapyd will collaborate with Visa to offer fintech and payment services, in which… Read More

Automated Platform Astra Joins Visa’s US Fintech Fast Track Program

Astra, an automation platform, recently revealed that it had joined payments giant Visa’s US-based Fintech Fast Track Program. Astra has a mobile app that assists US customers in improving their cash flow and helps them save time using established rules that automatically transfer funds between… Read More

Banking as a Service Provider Bankable Forms Partnership with Visa

Targeting global growth, Bankable, a “Banking as a Service” provider, has formed a partnership with Visa, according to a company release. Bankable said it seeks to provide Visa’s U.S. clients, including corporate customers, access to its real-time and modular banking solutions. Bankable says this will… Read More

Visa’s UK-Wide “Access to Cash” Program to Provide Retailers a Fee for Handling OTC Cashback Transactions

Payments giant Visa is reportedly set to take its “access to cash” program industry-wide by teaming up with several financial institutions, in order to provide high street retailers in remote areas a fee for handling over the counter (OTC) cashback transactions. The launch of the… Read More

Visa-Plaid Acquisition: Sign of the Times

On January 13th, Visa (NYSE: V) announced it had purchased the Fintech Plaid as the old school credit card rails company seeks to boost its innovation cred. Visa paid a whopping $5.3 billion to acquire Plaid – a nice exit for early investors. Al Kelly,… Read More

Visa’s Fintech Fast Track Program Launches in the U.S.

Visa announced on Wednesday it is launching its Fintech Fast Track program in the U.S. According to Visa, Fast Track aims to speed up the process of integrating with Visa, to allow startups the ability to more “easily leverage” the reach, capabilities and security VisaNet,… Read More

Visa Set to acquire Technology Solutions Company Verifi

Visa (NYSE: V) announced on Friday it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Verifi, a technology solutions company that reduce chargebacks. Visa reported it will integrate Verifi’s enhanced chargeback tools with Visa’s risk management services, including those delivered by CardinalCommerce and CyberSource. “Buyers, sellers,… Read More

Visa Launches New Cross-Border B2B Payments Network

Visa Inc. (NYSE: V) announced on Tuesday the commercial launch of its new B2B Connect network. According to Visa, the platform was created to give financial institutions an ability to quickly and securely process high-value corporate cross-border payments globally. The Visa B2B Connect launch will… Read More

Visa Teams Up With Currencycloud to Offer New Cross-Border & Travel Payment Experiences

Cross-border payment platform Currencycloud announced on Tuesday it has formed a new partnership with credit card giant Visa (NYSE: V) to drive further innovation in cross-border and travel payments. The partnership will see Currencycloud aligned with Visa’s broader mission to help people make secure and… Read More

Marqeta & Visa Ink Global Partnership to Power Payments & Loans

Visa (NYSE: V) and Marqeta, a payment card issuing platform that can provide consumers with immediate loans, has announced a global partnership to propel innovations in commercial and consumer payments in lending. Visa has also made a strategic investment in Marqeta and led a $25… Read More

Visa Hiring Ethereum Engineer to Continue Work on its Blockchain Technology

Last week, Visa posted a new job opening for an Ethereum engineer to continue work on the company’s growing blockchain technology products. The company had previously launched an international B2B payment solution that utilized blockchain technology last year. Ethereum Developer Wanted The job posting describes Visa’s… Read More

Mobile Payments: PayPal & Visa Extend US Partnership to Asian Pacific Market

PayPal (PYPL) and Visa (NYSE:V) have extended their U.S. partnership to the Asian Pacific market, a move that will see them work collaboratively to accelerate the adoption of secure, reliable and convenient digital and mobile payments for consumers and merchants in markets throughout the region. This… Read More

African Fintech: Visa Links with Hong Kong VC/Incubator Nest to Launch Bootcamp

Visa has partnered with the Hong Kong-based VC firm and incubator Nest to run a four-day fintech bootcamp in Nairobi for innovative startups in Africa, according to a release. Nest mentors will join executives from Visa’s teams in Kenya, South Africa, and the UAE to coach selected… Read More

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