payment visa in comment and analysis
Stephen Brannan
CIO Profile In that role Brannan was also a member of Visa's European board and chair of the UK cards payment group of Apacs, the UK payments association. As director of group technology at RBS, Stephen Brannan leads a team of around 6,000 IT professionals... [06 Jun 2007]
Leader: Why cash will be weighing us down for years
Leader This time it's the turn of Visa Europe's chief executive to predict cash will be extinct by 2012. And sure, in the last decade alternatives to cash have made big leaps forward - with the broad adoption of credit and debit cards and other payment... [12 Mar 2007]
Oyster and Octopus - a tale of two cities' contactless cards
Comment So while it's taking time for TfL to achieve a contactless payment standard and a ubiquitous ticket for Londoners, the likes of MasterCard and Visa have had enough time to realise contactless payments are a huge opportunity. [28 Jun 2006]
Leader: UK still playing catch-up
Leader Mobile phone and aviation firms have stepped up to see if they can play a role, along with usual suspects such as MasterCard and Visa. The key players are still fighting it out amongst themselves to determine who will provide technology and payment... [11 Oct 2005]
Security Q&A: Your questions answered (Part 2)
Comment Why can't we solve the problem of spam by going after those who provide the enabling technology such as the payment systems - PayPal, Visa etc? Lloyd Pople asks: "Why can't we solve the problem of spam by going after those who provide the enabling... [05 Aug 2004]
Start-up of the month: Ecommerce without tears - or credit cards
Comment Any MasterCard or Visa credit card user would be able to make use of the system. Step forward CAST Technologies, a company which may just have an answer. Joey Gardiner reports. A lot of people say they won't shop online because they don't trust the... [17 May 2002]
M-payments: Big opportunity, big problems along the way
Comment Head of mobile commerce at Visa, Bruno Degiocanni, commented: "It's much better to use what's already there than reinvent the wheel. Visa's Degiocanni says the problem is more with the operators: "There are no standards effective amongst the... [24 Jan 2002]
John Lamb's Week: Getting the CeBIT between your teeth
Comment VISA Europe, the payment card firm, recently made a big thing about offering a E168m (£105m) inducement to card suppliers, merchants and banks to get them to adopt chip cards to cut down on fraud. Although business is booming for VISA, so is credit... [16 Mar 2001]
Smartcards - a smart move by Europe?
Comment The company has more than 80 smartcard programmes in 35 countries and on the internet, with 23 million Visa chip cards. In one initiative announced at the end of last month, Visa's member banks invested $150m to ease the migration from magnetic... [07 Nov 2000]
The Best of 'Reader Comments': Smartcards, e-marketplaces and Apple
Comment Visa Cash) or e-cash (e.g. The application of smartcard technology to other card-based payments, such as credit and debit, will provide the infrastructure and user familiarity required for the later introduction of new payment methods. [06 Oct 2000]
The Bloor Perspective: Alcatel's IP push, IR35's effect on corporate finances, and the demise of Mondex
Comment And similarly with a project started three years ago in Leeds by Visa International. Cash could, of course, be stored on the phone itself and transferred to an EPOS system on demand when payment was required. [27 Feb 2000]
ANALYSIS: VAT - Virtual Added Tax?
Comment The main options are getting consumers to assess themselves - although the Swiss attempt to do this was unsuccessful; or getting financial intermediaries such as Visa to withhold part of the payment as tax. [07 Oct 1998]
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