There is a growing list of things millennials have seemingly been blamed for rendering obsolete, such as cocktail napkins, casual dining and expensive engagement rings. Part of the reason why this generation supposedly has little interest in such mainstays is that they have become used...
Visa is rolling out a new card product suite focused on small businesses (SMBs) — more specifically, high-spending SMBs. David Simon, Visa’s senior vice president and global head of small business and medium enterprises, tells PYMNTS that Visa Infinite Business will help firms make the...
The installment lending playing field just got more interesting — and global — today (June 27). Visa announced that it will bring the power and ubiquity of installment lending to digital and physical points of sale (POS) through application program interfaces (APIs) that support the...
Push payments have been a topic of conversation in the developed world for the last several years, across verticals and use cases. Riding the card rails in reverse has unlocked new opportunities to enable more efficient payments to policyholders from insurance companies, from consumers and...
August 03, 2021
To get crypto cards into the hands of the masses, to get them spending in commercial and retail use cases … well, the cards have to be issued first. Issuers, of course, want to link into the Mastercard network so that users can spend their crypto assets wherever Mastercard is accepted and benefit from the […]
October 23, 2019
Visa is rolling out a new card product suite focused on small businesses (SMBs) — more specifically, high-spending SMBs. David Simon, Visa’s senior vice president and global head of small...
June 05, 2019
Push payments have been a topic of conversation in the developed world for the last several years, across verticals and use cases. Riding the card rails in reverse has unlocked...
May 16, 2019
Take a minute and think of the morning rush at a favorite coffee shop. The beverages roll off what amounts to an assembly line before landing on the far counter....
October 26, 2015
The largest issuer of MasterCard debit cards in the U.S. is switching over to Visa. The United Services Automobile Association (USAA), one of the largest issuers overall of debit and credit cards in the United States, announced over the weekend that it is moving its portfolio (of both types of cards) to Visa, ending — […]
October 22, 2015
Visa wants to make it a bit easier for the smaller issuers to get their fair share in the consumer marketplace. Visa announced yesterday (Oct. 21) the launch of a new platform...
July 09, 2015
Offering up its latest quarterly report on the “Credit Card Landscape,” this time around for the second quarter of 2015, CardHub stated that rates were “fairly stable” with two exceptions:...
