India’s UPI has gone from a domestic game-changer to the world’s leading real-time payment system in less than a decade of its existence, surpassing the industry giant – Visa – with over 650 million daily transactions.
Visa’s latest Money Travels: 2025 Digital Remittances Adoption Report reveals a strong shift toward digital remittance apps in North America.
Digital challenger Lunar becomes the first bank in the Nordics to start Visa card processing on Pismo’s cloud platform, while its partnership with Wise allows Lunar customers to send money abroad at favourable terms.
The global payment landscape is rapidly changing driven by a seismic shift in popular transaction methods. A closer look at payment statistics reveals that account-to-account (A2A) transfers are ascending in importance. Its growing dominance among other payment types is especially evident in the European market.
Stablecoin infrastructure platform BVNK has received investments from the payment industry giant Visa.
Instead of relying on regular bank settlement processes, Rain now handles all transactions for its Visa cards using USDC stablecoin.
Both payment network providers, Visa and Mastercard, have almost simultaneously unveiled their initiatives to enable the future of AI-driven agentic commerce.
Visa unveiled three new value-added services that are designed to simplify and enhance the security of the payment acceptance process.
The media published information according to which Visa offered Apple about $100 million for the acquisition of this technology giant’s credit card business, which is held by Mastercard.
The World Network, an organization co-founded by Sam Altman and which is part of the blockchain-based ecosystem that includes Worldcoin, is currently negotiating with Visa to add on-chain card features to the organization’s self-custody cryptocurrency wallet.
Joint financial product from Santander and Amazon is already available for amazon.de customers in Austria.
Visa said that its anti-fraud disruption department saved potential victims of scammers $350 million last year.
Over the past year, adoption of a rapidly expanding Visa Tap to Phone technology has skyrocketed by 200% worldwide, enabling SMBs to accept transactions seamlessly and at low cost.
Visa and Fold have collaborated to launch a credit card that offers bitcoin rewards.
RedotPay and StraitsX offer crypto enthusiasts another way to spend their cryptocurrencies effortlessly at millions of Visa-accepting merchants worldwide.
Visa’s performance in the first quarter of fiscal 2025 showed a significant increase in the number of payment transactions, carried out in digital format, and a growth in tokens and credentials issued by this payment network.
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