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Retail Asia08/07/2022

China unveiled tighter rules late on Thursday to better regulate its $1.3 trillion credit card industry, urging lenders to adopt a “prudent” growth strategy, and monitor risks more closely. Banks are also barred from using the number of cards issued or market share as main performance metrics, and are required to cap the number of […]

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Retail Asia24/11/2021

Amazon’s latest spat with Visa shows big retailers, armed with a growing array of payment options, are gaining the upper hand in their power struggle with card providers, but it’s not a crisis for the payment company. Amazon said last week that it would stop accepting Visa credit cards issued in the United Kingdom from […]

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Retail Asia11/07/2021

Crypto-linked spending on Visa cards topped $1 billion despite continued doubts about cryptocurrencies as a means of payment. Credit card giant Visa achieved the feat in just the first half of 2021, according to a statement, underlining more steps to make crypto transactions smoother. The firm said it was seeking to partner with 50 crypto […]

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Retail Asia04/06/2021

A new study by the payments giant reveals the growing popularity of digital payment methods such as online wallets, mobile contactless payments and QR code payments among Singaporeans. The ongoing Covid-19 pandemic is hastening the demise of cash-based transactions in the city-state by at least four years, Visa said in its Consumer Payment Attitudes Study, […]

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Retail Asia24/02/2021

Afterpay the leader in “Buy Now, Pay Later,” today announced a partnership with Stripe, the technology company building economic infrastructure for the internet. The two companies are joining forces to offer Afterpay’s payment service to Stripe merchants through an easy and seamless integration. The partnership allows both new and existing Stripe merchants to easily offer Afterpay […]

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Retail Asia06/01/2021

The multi-currency mobile wallet has inked a six-year partnership with Visa to grow its reach across Southeast Asia, starting with Malaysia and the Philippines. The two sides are banking on an international travel recovery and hope to solve a pain point for Southeast Asian travelers by enabling access to cross border payment solutions such as wholesale exchange rates and […]

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Retail Asia02/12/2020

The three partners will collaborate on payment solutions aimed at addressing the under-served micro, small and medium enterprise (MSME) lending market. Singapore-headquartered fintech Lightnet Group has signed a memorandum of understanding with decentralized credit and settlement network Velo Labs and Visa to expand lending to the MSME market in Asia, according to a press statement […]

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Retail Asia08/10/2020

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Visa, the world’s leading digital payments technology company, has teamed up with Stripe, a technology company that builds the economic infrastructure for the internet, to introduce a new set of solutions to help businesses pay and be paid on time. The new solutions will be on the Visa Payables Automation platform, which allows buyers to […]

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Retail Asia05/10/2020

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Visa has announced a five-year regional strategic partnership with e-commerce platform Shopee that intends to spur greater participation in Southeast Asia’s digital economy. The agreement includes collaboration on a number of initiatives to extend access to the digital economy for micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) across Southeast Asia. These businesses will be incentivized to digitalize […]

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Retail Asia13/08/2020

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@Macau, the world’s biggest casino hub, is set to welcome an influx of gamblers after China announced that tourist visas would be reinstated for all provinces. Residents from Zhuhai city across the border from Macau are permitted from tomorrow, August 12. Residents from the neighboring coastal province of Guangdong on the mainland will be able […]

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Retail Asia24/06/2020

Visa, today announced a commitment to support 10 million small businesses across Asia Pacific in an effort to get local communities back to business in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Visa is introducing a range of programs and solutions to help small and medium enterprises (SMEs) drive efficiency and sales by accepting and making […]

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Retail Asia18/06/2020

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Visa, the world’s leader in digital payments, today released findings from its Visa Consumer Payment Attitudes study (the “Study”), that show almost eight in ten Thais (79 percent) are using contactless payments more often than they did two years ago. The study, which tracks consumer habits and attitudes towards payments across Southeast Asia, also revealed […]

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Retail Asia17/03/2020

Other than the very obvious health concerns caused by COVID-19, the ongoing pandemic is also causing much economic trouble. Apple introduced a customer assistance program for Apple Card users to help offset financial concerns. Many Apple Card users on Reddit have reportedly received an email about the new customer assistance program. Under this program, cardholders […]

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Retail Asia07/02/2020

Australian regulators are considering intervention to stop banks from using Visa and MasterCard as their default options to route debit card payments in a move that would save up to $230 million per year. The pro-consumer move targets «tap-and-go» card payments made through the two global networks which according to a retailer association results in […]

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Retail Asia15/01/2020

Visa will be buying privately held financial technology startup Plaid in a $5.3 billion deal, according to a statement from the payments processor. Visa and rival Mastercard had invested in Plaid in a $250 million series C funding round in 2018 that reportedly valued the firm at $2.65 billion. Visa said it expects the deal […]

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Retail Asia25/09/2019

Payment firms in New Zealand have committed to rolling out the new payment technology credential-on-file (COF) tokenization to strengthen e-commerce security and enhance conversion rates. Adyen, Bambora, Cybersource, Paystation by Trade Me and Windcave said they plan to introduce tokenization in the country, in partnership with Visa, which will not only reduce fraud but will […]

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Retail Asia02/08/2019

Digital-payments company Visa has invested an undisclosed amount into Southeast Asian ride-sharing and services startup Go-Jek giving it a foothold in the company’s payments platform. The two companies say they will work together to provide greater options for cashless payments and more seamless experiences for consumers across Indonesia and Southeast Asia. Indonesian-based Go-Jek, which has […]

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Retail Asia16/07/2019

Up to 60 million users of Razer’s mobile wallet, Razer Pay, will be able to try out the newly-developed virtual prepaid solution by Visa for making payments wherever Visa is accepted without the need for a bank account or a credit card, both companies announced on Monday We want to make sure that we are able to […]

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Retail Asia04/07/2019

The project with LTA will be one of Visa’s largest implementation for contactless acceptance for transit globally at 30,000 acceptance points. All banks that issue contactless enabled Visa cards will be part of this transit initiative. Consumers will also be able to make mobile contactless transactions through compatible devices including Apple Pay, Fitbit Pay, Google […]

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Retail Asia28/06/2019

Visa (NYSE: V), the global payments leader, and LINE Pay Corporation, operator of digital wallet and fintech services on the LINE messaging app, today announced a strategic partnership that will see them create new financial services experiences for their collective user bases of millions of consumers and merchants worldwide[1]. The two companies will collaborate across multiple areas, […]

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