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Stricter Visa Rules for Trial Offers and Promotions To Take Effect Next Year
The card networks’ crackdown on negative-option billing and subscriptions with free trials is continuing, with stricter policies from Visa Inc. set to take effect April 18. The updated Visa rules will follow by a year tightened rules from Mastercard Inc. on negative-option billers. These are billers who, after getting a consumer …
Read More »COMMENTARY: Visa Next’s Installment APIs Solve Only Part of the Problem
Following Klarna’s recent raise of $460 million looking to expand its payments presence in the United States, and Mastercard Inc.’s recent acquisition of Vyze, the consumer-finance space is heating up with the big players of the finance world entering the arena. It is a further indication of the importance of easily …
Read More »Visa Hopes to ‘Flip the Script’ on Fraudsters With an Expanded Suite of Security Products
As merchants, consumers, and financial institutions contend with the aftereffects of unceasing data breaches, Visa Inc. is adding new products to help prevent and disrupt payment fraud. Announced Tuesday, the roster of new products include Vital Signs, which monitors transactions and alerts financial institutions to signs of potential fraudulent activity …
Read More »Visa and Kroger End Routing Dispute; Amazon’s Pressure on ISVs; FIS-Worldpay Deal Closes
Visa and Kroger Settle Debit-Routing Lawsuit, but Partial Credit Card Boycott Continues
The Kroger Co. and Visa Inc. have settled a 2016 federal lawsuit in which Kroger alleged Visa interfered with its transaction-routing plans for EMV debit cards, Digital Transactions News has learned. In a separate dispute, however, the leading stand-alone supermarket chain is still boycotting Visa credit cards in some of …
Read More »Visa’s Caution Toward Libra; Zelle’s Everyday-Payments Inroads; Discover Payment Volume up 8%
Visa’s Bullish on Contactless And Franchise-Broadening Acquisitions, Cautious on Libra
Visa Inc.’s net income jumped by a third in the quarter ended June 30, a period when the leading payment card network’s global transaction volume rose nearly 12% and the company completed or announced several acquisitions to broaden its franchise. Visa chairman and chief executive Alfred F. Kelly Jr. told …
Read More »Eye On the Point of Sale: Visa Agrees to Buy Payworks; ACI Signs up Worldpay
Visa Inc. said Wednesday it has acquired Payworks GmbH, a Munich-based developer of cloud-based point-of-sale payment-gateway software. Visa intends to integrate Payworks’ technology with that of another Visa property, CyberSource, and offer the combined product to merchants and acquirers. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. The combined offering will …
Read More »Visa Contactless Payments Scores at Women’s World Cup Venues and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 7/5/19
Visa Inc. released data indicating 51% of all purchases across nine stadiums in France hosting the group stage of the FIFA Women’s World Cup France 2019 were done with contactless cards or devices, including wearables and smart phones. The group stage of the soccer tournament ran from June 7 to …
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