Tagged: visa

October 10, 2022 @ 10:11 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Visa Inc. (NYSE:V), the leader in digital payments, shared an updated look at how fraud has evolved since the height of the pandemic, with criminals simultaneously “targeting online and offline vulnerabilities as our daily lives return to a blend of in-person and e-commerce experiences.” Paul… Read More

October 8, 2022 @ 7:00 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

West Realm Shires Services Inc. and FTX Trading Limited, the companies behind FTX US and FTX.COM respectively (collectively referred to as “FTX”), and Visa, which claims to be a world leader in digital payments, announced “a long-term global partnership.” As a part of the alliance,… Read More

October 7, 2022 @ 5:49 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Visa Canada and TD Securities announced an innovative collaboration as TD becomes the first Canadian financial institution “to join Visa B2B Connect, a cross-border business-to-business (B2B) payments network, enabling account to account, international payments quickly, securely, and with predictability.” According to Visa (NYSE: V) research,… Read More

October 1, 2022 @ 4:55 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

HPS, the global provider of payment solutions and services, announced it has obtained a principal membership license from Visa, the world leader in digital payments, which will enable HPS’ clients “to join the global Visa payments network.” In addition to HPS’ full processing capabilities, HPS… Read More

September 27, 2022 @ 10:29 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Samsung, which claims to be India’s largest consumer electronics company, and Axis Bank, India’s third largest private sector bank, have partnered “to launch an exclusive co- branded credit card, powered by Visa.” With the Samsung Axis Bank Credit Card, consumers will “get 10% cashback across… Read More

September 27, 2022 @ 7:42 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Visa (NYSE: V), one of the world’s leaders in digital payments, has announced its participation in the Canadian expansion of instant transfers, Square‘s solution for rapid merchant settlement. Square’s instant transfers are “enabled by Visa Direct, a VisaNet processing capability helping transform global money movement… Read More

September 23, 2022 @ 8:27 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Finastra and Visa ( NYSE: V) announced a Banking as a Service (BaaS) collaboration to co-develop new functionality on its Payments Hub solutions and implement Visa Direct – which provides access “to more than two billion accounts through push to account offerings.” The new capability… Read More

September 14, 2022 @ 11:50 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Adyen (AMS: ADYEN), the global financial technology platform of choice for leading businesses, today announced the expansion of Real Time Visa Account Updater (VAU) to Europe. As the first platform to offer Real Time VAU coverage in Europe with Visa, Adyen will help its customers… Read More

September 11, 2022 @ 5:12 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

DailyPay, a financial technology company, recently announced the launch of Friday, a  general purpose reloadable (GPR) prepaid card and app, which “unlocks instant no-fee on-demand pay transfers for DailyPay users.” Friday, created in partnership with Visa, the digital payments giant, and The Bancorp Bank, Member… Read More

August 30, 2022 @ 9:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Users of the NFT marketplace, iNFTSpace, can now enjoy more direct purchases of digital artworks via Alchemy Pay’s fiat-to-crypto gateway plugin. This on/off ramp is now being “integrated across all areas of blockchain.” For up and coming projects, such as iNFTspace, this is “the first… Read More

August 29, 2022 @ 8:39 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Karachi-headquartered Fintech firm Safepay HQ is reportedly going live with Cybersource (a product of payments service provider Visa) in order to bring Pakistani merchants new ways to allow their clients to pay them online. Safepay is a payment service provider that has reportedly received pilot… Read More

August 26, 2022 @ 4:56 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Visa (NYSE: V) announced that the company has now issued more than 4 billion network tokens worldwide “through Visa Token Service (VTS), marking a major milestone in its proprietary offering to help secure digital payments and further accelerate ecommerce innovation and acceptance.” This milestone, which… Read More

August 25, 2022 @ 8:43 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Citi Ventures has become the latest major company to invest in Mexico City’s open finance API platform Belvo. Citi Ventures has reportedly joined Visa as an investor in Belvo, which finalized a $43 million Series A investment round back in June 2021. The investment also… Read More

August 19, 2022 @ 8:40 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Klarpay AG has completed another milestone “with the integration of Visa‘s B2B Connect product to its services.” This latest achievement “enables Klarpay’s business customers to perform cross-currency outbound payments from Klarpay accounts to 90+ countries and 70+ currencies via its Dashboard and APIs.” Swiss fintech… Read More

August 17, 2022 @ 10:39 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Nebeus, the European cryptocurrency app, has announced a partnership with Modulr, the embedded payments platform, “to augment its offering with accounts, real-time payments and Visa cards.” This move makes Nebeus one of the first European companies “to leverage Modulr’s one-stop card issuing solution across the… Read More

August 17, 2022 @ 2:28 am By Omar Faridi  |  

ReceiptHero recently announced that it has joined the Visa Fintech Partner Connect—a program designed “to help Visa’s issuing clients quickly connect with a vetted and curated set of technology providers.” Visa Fintech Partner Connect is “an initiative that provides financial institutions and merchants in Europe… Read More

August 14, 2022 @ 3:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Astra, a provider of instant card-to-card funding as a service in the US, recently announced it is using Visa Direct – which is Visa’s real-time payments service – “to provide fast payments to millions of its end-users who can fund cards, wallets, and other accounts… Read More

August 12, 2022 @ 10:23 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Visa (NYSE: V) announced that Visa tap to pay will officially “arrive on GO Transit, and has launched on the UP Express, making it easier to travel on transit by offering riders a contactless payment option with their Visa credit card or payment-enabled device (e.g…. Read More

August 12, 2022 @ 3:00 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Figure Technologies, Inc., a key player in transforming financial services through the power of blockchain tech, announced a collaboration with Visa “to provide issuing processor services via Figure’s blockchain-based Banking in a Box platform.” Visa DPS, used by financial institutions around the globe, will be… Read More

August 10, 2022 @ 7:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Western Union (NYSE: WU) recently announced an update to its existing partnership with Visa (NYSE: V), expanding its integration with Visa Direct, Visa’s real-time1 money movement network, “into Western Union’s United States network.” Western Union’s integration with Visa Direct was “initially activated across Europe, allowing Western… Read More