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Alipay and WeChat Pay to support international card schemes in mobile wallet
Chinese payments giants Alipay and WeChat Pay have announced they plan to open up their mobile wallet platforms to international...
Tokenisation: A high stakes game for stakeholders
Tokenisation has become an important component of enabling secure payments in Canada, and the payment networks are using it to...
Continued growth in China cements UnionPay as the world’s largest card scheme
New research shows that there were 16 billion payment cards in circulation at the end of 2018, up by 10%...
Visa in talks to acquire Nordic payment firm Nets
Visa is reported to be among the companies looking at the acquisition of Nordic payment firm Nets, according to people...
Money 2020: Visa and Western Union partner on global payments
Visa has announced a new strategic agreement with Western Union to implement Visa Direct, Visa’s real-time[1] push payments platform in...
Visa acquires control of Earthport
Visa announced it has finally acquired control of Earthport, a company that provides cross-border payment services to banks, money transfer...
Is Visa really squaring up to Swift with Visa B2B Connect blockchain platform?
Visa recently signed a deal enabling FIS’ clients to have access to Visa B2B Connect. The uses blockchain to make...
Visa and Mastercard cut interchange fees to end EU antitrust investigation
Visa and Mastercard have offered to cut interchange fees on payments made by tourists using cards issued outside the European...