Visa Inc.

• Visa Reverses Course on Embedded Chip Technology

  By David Morrison  |  August 9, 2011

  After years of steadily opposing embedding so-called smart chips in U.S.-issued cards, the largest card brand has reversed itself.

• Wescom Offers P2P Service

  June 13, 2011

  Wescom Resources Group is offering its credit union clients mobile person-to-person payment service from PayPal.

• Wescom Resources Group Adds PayPal for Mobile Users

  By Marc Rapport  |  June 1, 2011

  Wescom Credit Union CUSO now the latest credit union technology provider to offer integration with PayPal for person-to-person payments.

• Visa Preparing to Roll Out New Payments Platform

  May 23, 2011

  Pentagon Federal Credit Union, a card processing CUSO, and a leading CU card association are among the institutions cooperating with Visa Inc. in the launch of a new payments platform that promises to significantly change how payments are handled.

• Fiserv, CashEdge Land P2P Pact With Visa

  March 30, 2011

  Fiserv Inc. and Visa Inc. have reached a deal that adds potentially billions of new users of the ZashPay person-to-person payment service.

• Fiserv, Visa in P2P Expansion Deal

  By Marc Rapport  |  March 17, 2011

  Fiserv Inc. has added potentially billions of new users of its ZashPay person-to-person payment service through an agreement with Visa Inc.

• Visa Working With Merchants Overseas to Support Chip Cards

  By David Morrison  |  February 9, 2011

  Visa has announced a program that will exempt overseas merchants from card security requirements provided at least 75% of their point of sale terminals are able to read cards with an embedded computer chip to improve fraud protection.

• Visa Backed Consumer Group Seeking Interchange Cap Delay

  By David Morrison  |  January 25, 2011

  A consumer group backed by Visa USA is trying to generate letters from consumers in support of a legislative effort to delay implementation of a cap on debit card interchange.

• Durbin Amendment Likely to Hit Payments Systems

  By David Morrison  |  December 22, 2010

  The year 2010 will be remembered as when the federal government got involved in how much interchange banks and credit unions earn on their debit card transactions.

• Justice Department Litigates Against the Major Card Brands

  By David Morrison  |  October 4, 2010

  The U.S. Justice Department announced today that it has filed an antitrust case against the three major card brands but that Visa and MasterCard have already settled with the government.