August 24, 2010 - Visa Inc. today announced global industry best practices for payment application vendors, integrators and resellers that implement, install or manage payment-related systems on behalf of merchants. The best practices developed by Visa in collaboration with the SANS Institute are
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August 17th, 2010 - According to a new survey by PASS from American Express SM, approximately one in three parents (36%) say that talking to their teens about an allowance is comparable or more difficult than the stressful experience of negotiating the purchase of a car.
Over half of parents (5
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August 13th, 2010 - Recognizing the important role that social media plays in small business today, Visa has upgraded the Visa Business Network, which currently has more than 100,000 active members, to include new features that help them connect, learn and grow.
Visa announced significant enhance
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July 5th, 2010 - Visa is teaming with Turkey's Akbank and vendor DeviceFidelity to launch Europe's first microSD-based contactless mobile payment system. Akbank customers will be able to insert DeviceFidelity's In2Pay microSD into their handsets' memory card slots, turning them into contactless paym
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4 august, 2010 - Pe plan mondial, la 30 iunie 2010, institutiile financiare membre MasterCard aveau in circulatie un portofoliu de 1.6 miliarde de carduri valide care, numai in trimestrul II din acest an, au generat 5,6 miliarde de tranzactii, in crestere cu 0,1% fata de aceeasi perioada din
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July 30, 2010 - For the fiscal third quarter 2010, ended June 30, service revenues were $873 million, an increase of 13% versus the prior year. Total processed transactions, which represent transactions processed by VisaNet, for the three months ended June 30, 2010 totaled 11.7 billion, were a posit
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July 26th, 2010 - China is leading the world in the uptake of mobile finance, with 77% of consumers using their phones to conduct financial transactions, according to a global survey carried out by KPMG. Compared with only 18 months ago, the global percentage of respondents who have used their mobil
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15 iulie 2010 – In perioada Campionatului Mondial FIFA World Cup™, din 1 iunie pana pe 11 iulie, cheltuielile cu cardul Visa realizate de turistii din intreaga lume in Africa de Sud au depasit 312 milioane USD, reprezentand o crestere de 70%, cu 128 milioane USD mai mult faţa de la acelasi
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14 iulie 2010 – Visa Europe a facut astazi public un ghid de bune practici al industriei pentru procesul de « tokenisation », oferind asistenta retailerilor, vanzatorilor, prestatorilor de servicii si acceptatorilor si promovand medii mai sigure de plata. « Tokenisation » este un proces pr
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June 30th, 2010 - Industry collaboration to drive forward MIFARE standardization for mobile transactions.
Seven leading players in the Near Field Communication (NFC) ecosystem, Ericsson, Gemalto, NXP, Oberthur Technologies, STMicroelectronics, Venyon, a company in the Giesecke&Devrient group,
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