visa in comment and analysis
Steve Chambers
CIO Profile As CIO, Steve Chambers has been responsible for Visa Europe's regional data centre as well as continuing the development of numerous systems and delivering a new payments architecture. Before joining Visa back in 2004, Chambers worked for financial... [11 Jun 2008]
Dear silicon.com... petty cash, Vista sales, swelling SMEs...
Comment Anybody else find it not-strange-at-all that this study was by none other than VISA! I don't care to have Visa et all know any more about what I do than they do already - and that is probably too much. [01 Nov 2007]
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. An aggressive acquisition strategy that started at the beginning of the decade with NatWest has seen the... [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. The cashless society is a bit like the paperless office. It's always about five years away. And sure, in the last decade alternatives to cash have... [12 Mar 2007]
Crime pays - and pays very well in cyberspace
Comment They will be joined by officials from Russia and Nigeria, law enforcement agencies as well as private companies such as Microsoft, PayPal and Visa. E-crime has become too great a menace to ignore, says Simon Moores. [07 Mar 2007]
India diary, day 1: Cyberbad on Sunday
Comment This was much more the India I had expected - much more in keeping with the five hours I'd spent at the High Commission applying for my journalist visa the week before. Sunday 4 February - Hyderabad The cab driver leans hard on the horn as we race... [04 Mar 2007]
Oyster and Octopus - a tale of two cities' contactless cards
Comment This week Visa joined the race to become the accepted standard for contactless payments in the UK. 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... [28 Jun 2006]
Analysis: E-tailer credit card cover-up - California dreamin'?
Comment MasterCard used the phrase "a UK-based retailer" while Visa's statement spoke of "a UK-based online merchant". By the next day, Friday 28 April, silicon.com moved the story on and pushed both MasterCard and Visa to release more details about the... [10 May 2006]
Leader: Flexibility means fat geese for Christmas
Leader Payments firms MasterCard and Visa have already realised that people want reassurance to shop online - they want to feel safe about making bigger purchases. Fat geese might be typical at Christmas time but a few financial firms could plump their... [06 Dec 2005]
Q&A: Kevin Mitnick, former hacker
Comment Now callers purport to be from the MasterCard or Visa fraud department, calling you to try to trick you into revealing your CVV (Cardholder Verification Value) number on the back of your card. To many, the name Kevin Mitnick is synonymous with... [07 Nov 2005]
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. Why is the UK so far behind the rest of the world when it comes to technology rollouts? [11 Oct 2005]
Leader: Careful with that customer data
Leader Earlier this week the CEO of credit card giant Visa announced that his company is investing $200m into 'anti-fraud measures' in a bid to get tough on scammers and card thieves. Firstly, Visa and other financial services firms must be experiencing... [07 Oct 2005]
Leader: Should we live in gated email communities?
Leader Without the likes of Visa we would soon tire of needing a different credit card for each and every shop we visit, or different currencies for every pub we drink in. eBay today announced plans to move its users within a 'gated community' for email... [05 Jan 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]
Leader: US Big Brother plans panned
Leader As visa-carrying members of the UK press, many silicon.com staff have already been forced to take part in the biometric entry system at US immigration. US immigration plans to biometrically register every visitor to the country have this week been... [29 Jul 2004]
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