Financial services giant, VISA, has acquired a minority stake in UK-based Global Processing Services (GPS). The terms of the deal are yet to be disclosed. No existing shareholders have exited as of yet. VISA and payments issuer processor, GPS, have collaborated since 2013. GPS was even selected as VISA's preferred ...
Eva Ngigi has been appointed by Visa as the new country manager for Kenya effective 9 September 2020. She will serve as the Senior Business Development leader, as well as be part of the East Africa leadership team. In this new role, Ms. Ngigi will develop and implement Visa’s growth ...
Visa has partnered with TerraPay, a global payments infrastructure company, for real-time development and delivery of payment solutions in an effort to drive financial inclusion and cashless transactions for domestic payments and global remittances. The partnership will develop and deliver solutions to drive repeat consumption of the mobile wallets and ...
Visa is partnering Interswitch and everyone else in the payments sector to double up the uptake of its mVisa, a mobile payments solution that allows consumers to pay for goods from any type of phone by either scanning a QR code, or entering a merchant number. The Visa and Interswitch ...
Visa has expanded its Everywhere Initiative, a fintech innovation challenge in search for the next big innovation in financial technology and payments technology to startups in the Middle East and North Africa. Coming to the Middle East and North Africa region for the first time, Visa’s Everywhere Initiative offers Startups ...
Payments tech firm Visa has opened its regional headquarters for the Western and Central Africa region in Abidjan, Cote D’Ivoire targeting local governments, financial institutions and merchants in the region as its new customers as it accelerates its 2015 commitment to the World Bank to include more people in the ...
FinTech Hive, a global fintech accelerator has been launched by Accenture, a global professional services company and the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC), the financial hub for the Middle East, Africa and South Asia (MEASA) region. The FinTech accelerator, based in Dubai is expected to bring cutting-edge financial services technology ...
Visa has partnered with Nest to launch the Visa Bootcamp, an intensive 4-day FinTech bootcamp designed to fuel early-stage FinTech companies with a vision to revolutionise financial services for Africans with financial inclusion and peer-to-peer or merchant payments being of specific focus to this programme. Aaron Fu, Nest’s Managing ...
Visa has partnered with Co-Operative Bank, Family Bank, KCB and NIC Bank to launch mVisa, a new mobile payment service that will accelerate digital commerce in Kenya and across Africa. With mVisa, users can pay for goods at stores or send money to individuals at anytime by scanning a QR code ...
Uber and Visa Inc. have launched Uber Local Offers, a new way for riders to earn discounted rides by simply using the same Visa credit card on file with Uber at their favorite local merchants. Starting from riders in San Francisco and Los Angeles, Uber Local Offers will suggest shopping and ...
Bahrain has introduced eVisas to visitors from eleven African countries, marking the third phase of the Kingdom’s new visa policy. The new phase allows nationals from Egypt, Morocco, Kenya, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Mozambique, Cameroon, Gabon, Senegal, Mauritius and Seychelles to obtain their visas online ahead of travel, via the government’s ...
Global payments technology firm, Visa today launched a card security week campaign in Kenya to raise awareness amongst cardholders on the security features found within the EMV chip card as well as the benefits of using your Visa card for everyday spend. “Fear of fraud remains one of the major ...
Global payments technology firm Visa has launched Visa Checkout and aims to expand it to 16 markets globally in 2015 to help consumers sign up and use the service to simplify payments. Launched in 2014 July in US, Australia and Canada, the service is also available in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, ...
Global leader in payments Visa has embarked on a i 6 month, countrywide campaign to raise awareness amongst cardholders on benefits of EMV chip cards in Kenya. TheVisa Chip and Pin campaign seeks to encourage consumers to use their EMV chip cards which are safer from counterfeit and fraud activities. “The little chip ...
Visa Inc. the global leader in payments, last night announced it is supporting consumer payments with the new iPhone 6 and . Thanks to a new capability called Visa Token Service, participating financial institutions in the U.S., and eventually abroad, will be able to add Visa debit and credit cards to Apple Pay, Apple’s new payment ...
MasterCard and Visa recently formed a new alliance to enhance payment system security to keep pace with the times and meet expectations of consumers, retailers and financial institutions. The firms say the alliance's first priority will be the adoption of EMV chip technology in the US, security-related issues such as ...
Nairobi-based seed stage investment firm, Savannah Fund will on November 20 host Afrikoin, an event on Africa's emerging ecimmerce, digital currency and payments to help innovators, entreprenuers in the ecommerce and the payments space and laymen to understand the future of cash in Africa. Speaking to TechMoran Savannah Fund's Mwana ...
