11/3/2023 3:48:47 PM Plaid weighs IPO nearly 3 years after walking away from Visa sale By Samantha Wulfson Plaid has been busy since walking away from its $5.3 billion sale to Visa in January 2021. In January 2020, Visa announced plans to buy...
9/5/2023 1:42:41 PM Visa expands stablecoin settlement pilot to Solana By FinTech Collective Visa is scaling their USDC settlement pilot to include the Solana blockchain, enabling enterprise-grade throughput at virtually no cost...
7/17/2023 4:13:20 PM Thunes raises $12m in Series C extension funding By FinTech Collective Singapore based B2B payments infrastructure platform raised $12m in Series C extension funding led by Visa.
6/15/2023 7:59:18 PM Lawmakers try again to curb Visa and Mastercard fees, with broader support By Samantha Wulfson Currently, when a consumer pays with a credit card that has Visa or Mastercard listed on it, merchants generally have to route the...
3/3/2023 4:15:10 PM Visa, Mastercard pause crypto push in wake of industry meltdown By Samantha Wulfson Both Visa and Mastercard have decided to push back the launch of certain products and services related to crypto until market conditions...
2/9/2023 2:35:51 PM Visa opens Atlanta HQ to tap diverse local talent and fintech denizens By Sarah Wolter “We are here because we’ve got more than 70 FinTech and payment companies here,” Visa Head of Global Client Services Elizabeth Rector...
10/19/2022 7:17:02 PM Visa partners with FTX in a bet that shoppers still want to spend cryptocurrencies in a bear market By Samantha Wulfson Visa and FTX are offering debit cards in 40 countries with a focus on Latin America, Asia and Europe. The cards, which are already...
3/11/2022 5:07:21 PM Visa closes deal to acquire European open banking platform Tink for $2B By Carlos Alonso Torras Tink allows customers to transfer cash, access financial data and use financial services through an application programming interface...
2/17/2022 1:34:09 PM Amazon and Visa agree to end global dispute over credit card fees By Sarah Wolter Amazon has been piling pressure on Visa to lower its fees, in a series of moves that signaled growing frustration from retailers over the...
12/10/2021 7:48:54 PM Visa invests in Latin American open finance startup Belvo By Carlos Alonso Torras Visa has invested in Belvo, backing up a recently-announced partnership with the Mexico City-based open finance API platform.
12/8/2021 9:03:06 PM Visa launches crypto consulting services in push for mainstream adoption By Sarah Wolter The payments processor said that its crypto advisory practice, housed within its consulting and analytics division, will offer advice to...
11/19/2021 2:31:06 PM Amazon eyes dropping Visa on co-branded US card By Carlos Alonso Torras Amazon is considering dropping Visa as a partner for its Amazon Prime Rewards credit card, just two days after announcing it would stop...
11/17/2021 9:19:31 PM Amazon won’t accept U.K. Visa credit cards in fight over fees By Sarah Wolter As of Jan. 19, Amazon told British customers in an email, it will stop accepting the cards "due to the high fees Visa charges for...
8/23/2021 4:14:17 PM Visa buys CryptoPunk NFT for $165,000 in ethereum By Sarah Wolter Visa is bullish on NFTs. The payments giant not only believes "NFTs will play an important role in the future of retail, social media,...
7/9/2021 2:56:46 PM $1b+ crypto transacted via Visa-linked cards in H1 By FinTech Collective Visa now partners with over 50 firms to offer card programs which allow crypto-related spending at the millions of merchants on its...
6/4/2021 11:24:40 AM Mir breaks Visa-Mastercard duopoly in Russia By Carlos Alonso Torras As Europe's proposed alternative to Visa and Mastercard takes shape, evidence from Russia suggests that an upstart rival can break the...