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September 7, 2023 @ 11:42 am By Omar Faridi  |  

As part of its ongoing initiatives aimed to positively impact the environment at a global level, branded payments provider Blackhawk Network (BHN) says that it is working alongside Visa (NYSE: V) in order to transition its network branded prepaid products “distributed by third party retail… Read More

September 5, 2023 @ 11:10 am By JD Alois  |  

Visa (NYSE: V) says it is modernizing cross-border money movement as it improves its stablecoin settlement capabilities with the Solana blockchain. Simultaneoulsy, Visa reports that it is working with merchant acquirers Worldpay and Nuvei. Visa says it has “moved millions of USDC between its partners… Read More

August 31, 2023 @ 4:57 pm By Michael Wong  |  

Uplinq, a global credit and scoring assessment platform for small business lenders, has teamed up with digital payments giant Visa to provide scoring and risk assessment tools to small business lenders throughout the US and Canada. As per the agreement, Visa will facilitate the introduction… Read More

August 9, 2023 @ 3:17 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Visa Inc. (NYSE: V) and CB International Bank (CBiBank) announce the launching of an innovative cross-border B2B payments solution for businesses worldwide. CBiBank has officially “joined the Visa B2B Connect platform, ushering in a new era of faster, more cost-effective, and secure B2B payment services.”… Read More

July 24, 2023 @ 11:45 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Klarpay AG is pleased to announce an enhancement to its services, allowing clients to create U.S. Dollar denominated Visa debit cards “linked to Corporate USD accounts.” This offering aims “to improve the way Klarpay clients transact with popular services, which are often charged in USD,… Read More

July 15, 2023 @ 10:26 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Car IQ Inc., which claims to be a pioneer in vehicle payments, has reportedly teamed up with Visa (NYSE: V), a world leader in digital payments, in order “to enable vehicles to transact directly with Visa’s global ecosystem of merchants and banks, and purchase fuel,… Read More

June 30, 2023 @ 12:33 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Visa (NYSE: V) recently announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Pismo for $1 billion in cash. Together, they will be positioned “to provide core banking and issuer processing capabilities across debit, prepaid, credit and commercial cards for clients via cloud native APIs.”… Read More

June 20, 2023 @ 10:58 am By JD Alois  |  

Froda is launching a card-based embedded lending solution in Denmark in partnership with digital bank Lunar and Visa. According to a public statement, the launch follows a successful test period, as the company strives to make it faster and cheaper for SMEs to access growth… Read More

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