Lemon Launches the VISA Lemon Card Powered by Pomelo

Visa wants a bigger slice of commercial payments

China sees more cross-border trips under new visa policies

Visa Sets Aside $1.5 Billion in a Litigation Escrow Account: Weekly news up to Tuesday, 1st of October 2024.

What Visa earnings really tell us: Can we draw any conclusions about the payments industry from Visa's financial results?

China, Malaysia extend mutual visa-free agreement

Nuvei partners with Visa to offer Visa Direct in Colombia: Weekly news up to Wednesday, 5th of June 2024.

Fintech Update, 5/6 - 5/12: Hi! It’s Monday, May 13, 2024. Tabapay ended its plans to acquire BaaS platform Synapse; and the CFPB fined Chime $3.25M for delaying refunds to customers who closed accounts; and a report from Visa found that 90% of all stablecoin transactions were facilitated by bots, not humans, suggesting such tokens might be further away from becoming a commonly used means of payment than expected.

Sanctioned North Korean animators working on hit shows | ABC journalist denied visa after Indian government blocked reporting | TikTok to fight divestment or ban in US courts: Good morning. It's Tuesday 23rd April. The Daily Cyber & Tech Digest focuses on the topics we work on, including cybersecurity, critical technologies, foreign interference & disinformation. Follow us on Twitter and on LinkedIn. A misconfigured North Korean Internet cloud server has provided a fascinating glance into the wo

JPMorgan's leadership is not concerned with rising charge-off rates: JPMorgan’s credit card loan charge-offs surge to pre-pandemic highs, Visa finds growth in Europe, and Square lags competition

Fintech Update, 3/25 - 3/31: Hi! It’s Monday, April 1, 2024. Robinhood announced its Gold Card, aimed at high earners and competitors like Chase Reserve; Visa and Mastercard agreed to settle a decades-long antitrust case brought by US merchants; and FTX co-founder and former CEO Sam Bankman-Fried was sentenced to 25 years in federal prison. All this + more inside!

China grants visa-free entry to citizens of another six European states

This is not the U.S. consumer who is helping Visa grow: Visa and Mastercard might be seeing the end of the secular growth trend in the U.S. But it is not the end of the world.

On costly, but mostly hypothetical, settlement risk: Visa and Mastercard require card issuers to post billions in collateral to protect themselves from settlement risk. However, that settlement risk rarely materializes into losses for the schemes

Thai PM welcomes Chinese tourists under visa free scheme

Visa partners with Worldpay and Nuvei to expand its stablecoin program: Visa partners with Worldpay and Nuvei to expand its stablecoin settlement program, Toast's CEO Chris Comparato to step down, and Robinhood repurchases shares previously owned by the FTX founder

Robust consumer spending boosts Visa's second quarter results: Robust consumer demand boosts Visa's second-quarter results, Robinhood hires UK CEO ahead of the planned launch in the country, and LendingClub will report its earnings after the market close

Block sues Visa and Mastercard over interchange fees: Block sues Visa and Mastercard over interchange fees, Coinbases pauses staking in four states, and Wise income soars on higher interest rates

Square launches credit card for sellers: Square launches a credit card for sellers, Visa acquires Brazilian Fintech startup Pismo, and PayPal introduces Tap to Pay for Venmo

Barron's names best online brokers of 2023: Barron’s names best online brokers of 2023, Visa is rumored to acquire Brazil’s Pismo, and Shift4 Payments introduces SkyTab Workforce

Amazon teams up with Affirm to offer "Buy Now Pay Later" products through Amazon Pay: Amazon teams up with Affirm to offer BNPL products through Amazon Pay, Legislators seek to curb Visa and Mastercard fees, and Stripe adds support for Cash App Pay

Venture firm QED raises nearly $1 billion to invest in Fintech startups: Venture firm QED raises $925 million to invest in Fintech startups, Airbnb partners with Stripe to enable paying for stays with bank payments, and Visa to open a technology and product hub in Poland

Visa beats earnings expectations

VISA and Mastercard to report their Q1 2023 results next week

Fintech Update, 4/10 - 4/16: Hi! It’s Monday, April 17th, 2023. The Rundown Faster payments, fewer constraints – Two new products debuted that promise to help speed up payments and remove barriers between wallets: First, Visa launched Visa+, an interoperable payment offering that allows customers to transfer funds between different P2P payment apps.