07 May 26 @ 16:30

The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority has opened a competition investigation into PayPal, Mastercard and Visa, examining whether commercial arrangements linked to PayPal’s digital wallet may have restricted competition in the... read more

27 Apr 26 @ 12:53

Nexi and Visa have unveiled a strategic partnership in Germany that signals a broader change in how banks are expected to modernise their card issuing operations. Rather than continuing to... read more

14 Apr 26 @ 20:03

Visa is stepping up its push into agentic commerce with the launch of Intelligent Commerce Connect, a new tool intended to help businesses plug into AI-driven shopping without having to... read more

08 Apr 26 @ 20:57

Visa’s latest research offers a revealing snapshot of how quickly agentic commerce is moving from theory to practical reality. The payments group argues that a new phase of digital trade... read more

02 Apr 26 @ 18:44

Visa is stepping up its effort to modernise one of the most cumbersome parts of the payments chain, launching a suite of artificial intelligence-powered dispute resolution tools aimed at merchants,... read more

29 Mar 26 @ 18:36

Visa has taken another deliberate step into the institutional digital assets market by joining the Canton Network as a super validator. A move that underlines how large payments groups are... read more

24 Mar 26 @ 17:44

Visa is moving to embed itself in what could become the next important layer of digital commerce: payments initiated not by people, but by software agents acting on their behalf.... read more

22 Mar 26 @ 18:30

Visa and Fiserv are extending their long-running partnership in Europe with a new API-driven acceptance offering designed to simplify merchant acquiring and modernise payment processing at scale. The initiative brings... read more

17 Mar 26 @ 15:03

Visa is moving to bring agentic commerce closer to commercial reality, launching a new programme with banks across the UK and Europe to test how artificial intelligence agents could initiate... read more

10 Mar 26 @ 17:33

Visa has unveiled a new capability within its Visa Acceptance Platform designed to help payment acquirers modernise their transaction processing infrastructure through a single application programming interface (API). The new... read more

03 Mar 26 @ 16:14

Visa and Bridge – the stablecoin infrastructure provider acquired by Stripe earlier this year –  are to expand their stablecoin card programme to more than 100 countries across Europe, Africa,... read more

27 Feb 26 @ 10:11

Visa has secured pole position in the payments industry’s contest to operationalise AI, according to a new global benchmark assessing AI maturity across leading firms. The index, compiled by Evident,... read more

18 Feb 26 @ 13:35

The race to define the next phase of digital commerce via agentic payments has moved decisively into the banking mainstream. Visa and Mastercard have enlisted leading Asia-Pacific institutions to trial... read more

10 Feb 26 @ 17:30

Visa is pushing deeper into one of the world’s most strategically important payment corridors, announcing a partnership with UnionPay International to enable cross-border, real-time payments into mainland China. The agreement... read more

02 Feb 26 @ 20:03

Visa has delivered a solid set of first-quarter results, comfortably exceeding market expectations as consumer spending remained resilient across its global network. Yet the numbers were not enough to placate... read more

16 Jan 26 @ 11:59

Stablecoin-linked payment cards are emerging as a meaningful driver of growth for Visa’s blockchain settlement business, underlining how digital currencies are increasingly being absorbed into mainstream payments infrastructure rather than... read more

17 Dec 25 @ 13:28

Visa has taken a decisive step towards embedding stablecoins into core financial infrastructure, launching US-based settlement in Circle’s USDC for participating issuers and acquirers. While consumer cardholders will notice no... read more

08 Dec 25 @ 16:07

The proposed Mastercard–Visa settlement, two decades in the making, could reverberate through the foundations of the US card market. While the legal process may yet stretch into 2027, the framework... read more

04 Dec 25 @ 17:13

Visa and Amazon Web Services have struck a strategic alliance that could accelerate the commercialisation of agentic commerce — autonomous digital agents capable of browsing, comparing, and completing purchases on... read more

02 Dec 25 @ 16:31

Visa is helping usher in a new phase for Europe’s mobile payments market, enabling the launch of three digital wallets and supporting a fourth in pilot form, following a major... read more