29 Jul 14 @ 22:20

Spain’s CaixaBank has launched a contactless Visa-branded wristband, making it the largest programme in Europe to use wearable devices to make Visa payments at more than 300,000 locations across Spain.... read more

29 Jul 14 @ 22:18

Spain’s BBVA banking group has become the first global banking group to commercially launch mobile NFC payments based on the new cloud-based payment specifications from Visa. The new system will... read more

29 Jul 14 @ 21:41

Visa and MasterCard have reached a compromise agreement with Russian officials that would allow the global payment networks to continue operating in the country. Russia’s finance minister, Anton Siluanov, said... read more

29 Jul 14 @ 21:31

Visa Europe is predicting an end to plastic payment cards as changing consumer preferences and new technologies take hold. The network is looking at how to overhaul security standards and... read more

30 May 14 @ 11:25

One of the consequences of the ongoing Russia/Ukraine crisis has been the imposition of economic sanctions against Russia, something which has provoked a stringent response from the country’s president Vladimir... read more

27 Mar 14 @ 23:52

UK consumers’ preference for electronic payments continued to increase in 2013 as Visa Europe’s annual results showed that spending with UK Visa credit, debit, commercial and prepaid cards increased by... read more

27 Mar 14 @ 20:21

Visa and MasterCard have been in court to fight the EMV patent litigation they face from SmartMetric, Inc. SmartMetric is the owner of an issued United States Patent & Trademark... read more

27 Mar 14 @ 20:14

The European Union’s antitrust regulator has accepted Visa Europe’s offer to cap its credit card multilateral interchange fees (MIFs) for cross-border credit card payments at 0.3% for retailers, two people... read more

26 Sep 13 @ 13:20

Visa Europe has highlighted Slovakia as a showcase market for the adoption of contactless technology, with 1.43 million cards in circulation recording one million contactless transactions per month. Almost 7%... read more

26 Sep 13 @ 13:20

mPOS payment provider Swiff has received approval for its chip and PIN mPOS solution for use with Visa payments through the Visa Ready programme. The Visa Ready programme is aimed... read more

26 Sep 13 @ 13:20

IBM, Monitise and Visa Europe have teamed up to enable Visa Europe to provide its member banks with new mobile banking, payment and commerce services in the cloud for its... read more

26 Sep 13 @ 10:13

The number of payment cards worldwide increased by 12% in 2012 to reach a landmark 10 billion, according to a new report from research and consulting firm Retail Banking Research... read more

28 Jul 13 @ 05:40

The latest twist in the ongoing battle over interchange between US merchants and Visa and MasterCard has seen a group of around 30 merchants, including giants such as Amazon and... read more

13 Oct 25 @ 13:22

The payments industry may be on the cusp of one of its most dramatic shifts in decades. Reports suggest that large retailers, notably Walmart and Amazon, are exploring the issuance... read more

13 Oct 25 @ 13:06

Global e-commerce payments are projected to surge past $13 trillion by 2030, according to new analysis from Juniper Research, marking a 57% increase on the $8.3 trillion expected in 2025.... read more

13 Oct 25 @ 12:40

Klarna has launched its debit-first payment card across Europe, extending a product that has already attracted more than 685,000 users in the US since its debut in July. The move... read more

05 Aug 25 @ 17:12

Once a niche feature of the crypto fringes, stablecoins are fast becoming a core component of the global financial system. These digital tokens—typically pegged one-to-one with fiat currencies such as... read more

05 Aug 25 @ 17:07

In an era where geopolitical uncertainty increasingly influences the flow of money, the security and sovereignty of national payment infrastructures have never been more vital. As economic sanctions disrupt financial... read more

05 Aug 25 @ 17:05

The concept of verifying identity has underpinned human civilisation for millennia, from Mesopotamian seals to ink signatures and passports. Today, as the payments industry undergoes rapid transformation, digital identity (DI)... read more

05 Aug 25 @ 16:58

Europe’s vast card payments market—processing trillions of euros annually—remains dominated by two American giants: Visa and Mastercard. Together, they handled over €7 trillion in European transactions in 2023, reinforcing concerns... read more