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RSS visaVisa puts weight behind smartcard firm
News Visa yesterday gave its backing to a Belgian smartcard technology - Proton - with a view to making it the global standard for electronic purse schemes. Visa is developing Common Electronic Purse Specifications (Ceps) based on Proton, and expects 90... [30 Jul 1998]
Visa launches world's largest transaction network
News Credit card giant Visa has teamed up with computer firms Sun and Cisco to launch an online payment network they claim will be the largest in the world. The new system, Visa DirectExchange, will process all Visa debit and credit card transactions in... [20 Jul 2000]
Visa and MasterCard accounts hacked
News Millions of credit card accounts belonging to Visa and MasterCard customers have been exposed by a hacker who broke into the systems of a third party company which provides processing services to merchants. [18 Feb 2003]
Visa Cisp Compliance Solutions: Decru Cardvault
White Paper Decru DataFort storage security appliances provide turnkey encryption and access control enforcement to protect cardholder data, supporting compliance with Visa CISP requirements. The Decru CardVault solution can be deployed transparently in... [02 Feb 2006]
Visa to kick off contactless cards this autumn
News Visa is to launch contactless 'wave and pay' cards this autumn to replace low-value cash transactions across the UK. The rollout will start in London and act as a springboard for the widespread adoption of the Visa 'payWave' cards by retailers and... [04 May 2007]
Visa's smartcard plan is as sharp as a PIN
News More secure and quicker electronic transactions - that's the promise being made by Visa of a retail smartcard initiative, unveiled at the CarteS 2001 show in Paris today. Visa has worked with Retail Logic (a retail technology specialist) and... [23 Oct 2001]
Visa Debit Processing Service (DPS) Delivers Flawless Service Through the Busy Peak Season
White Paper More than 140 institutions, including five of the largest banks in the United States, depend on the Visa Debit Processing Service (DPS) in Colorado to ensure transaction integrity and always-up availability for millions of consumers across the... [04 Apr 2008]
Visa backs European smartcard standard
News Visa is set to push forward a European standard for electronic purse applications. A spokesman for rival Mondex attacked Visa for being arrogant enough to assume the standard will be taken on globally. [01 Jul 1998]
Backed by HP, Visa Debit Processing Service (DPS) Delivers Flawless Service Through the Busy Peak Season
White Paper Formed in 1995 as part of Visa USA, Visa DPS provides a full range of processing services for Visa payment products. To ensure uninterrupted service, Visa DPS runs its mission-critical transaction processing application, eFunds CONNEX Advantage, on... [29 May 2004]
Visa International Creates Support System to Monitor Its Pilot Program
White Paper Visa International is recognized worldwide for the huge role it plays in enabling commerce. An association of 21,000 member financial institutions, Visa supports worldwide sales of more than U.S.trillion. [22 Feb 2007]
Visa to trial 'tap and go' debit cards in London
News Visa is to trial contactless debit cards in London this autumn that will allow shoppers to pay for low-value goods by simply touching their card against an electronic reader. Visa is planning on using RFID-enabled dual-use debit cards for the trial... [26 Jun 2006]
Visa card details stolen
News Visa has confirmed that the credit card details of "a number" of Visa customers in the US and Europe have been stolen from a US-based firm. Some affected customers have had their cards blocked and are now unable to take advantage of the Visa slogan... [12 Jun 2003]
Visa and Nokia launch m-commerce payment project
News Visa and Nokia have announced a global initiative to introduce payment solutions for mobile ecommerce. Bruno Degiovanni, senior manager for new channels in Europe for Visa, said: "You can use it for remote payments and for face to face payments in... [08 Feb 2000]
Visa primes dotMobi for contactless m-payments
News Visa International has invested a seven-figure sum in dotMobi, the industry group behind the mobile domain name. Although the exact size of the investment has not been disclosed, it has secured Visa a seat on dotMobi's board of directors.dotMobi... [29 Mar 2007]
Visa launches mobile payments platform
News Visa has launched a mobile platform that it says will "lay the foundation" for commercial deployment of contactless mobile payments and near-field communications (NFC) services around the world. Patrick Gauthier, senior vice president of innovation... [10 Jan 2007]
