Keep the happy in your holidays
The season for scouring stores and websites for the best deals is upon us. While shoppers are busy trying to get the biggest bargain, fraudsters and scammers are also busy targeting consumers who have their [...]
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Shopping in-store during the holidays? Use a chip card to prevent card fraud
The era of omni-channel retail is here where consumers are shopping online and in-store so retailers should consider selling products in both channels. The prognostication of brick-and-mortar being obsolete is also a bit misleading. According [...]
Safety in numbers: Raising the industry’s security bar
Avirtual army of sophisticated and interconnected cybercriminal organizations has spread across the globe with one goal in mind: to access the value of data. Ninety percent of the world’s data was created in the [...]
Holiday sales season looks merry and bright
Wrapping up a solid year for consumer spending is a new forecast from Visa Business & Economic Insights that suggests U.S. holiday spending* will grow 4.1 percent (YoY) on all forms of payment. ([...]
Content and conversation at Money20/20
Money20/20 is a major gathering celebrating payments and financial services innovation for connected commerce. It brings together thousands of professionals from the worlds of mobile, retail, marketing services, data and technology to network and [...]
A company on a mission for “everyone, everywhere”
Diversity and inclusion aren’t just good ideas, they are good business ideas. A 2015 report from McKinsey found that companies with the highest gender, racial and ethnic diversity are 35 percent more likely to [...]
Visa Foundation donates $4.5 million to help fight homelessness and poverty
Helping underserved communities around the globe has been the focus of the Visa Foundation since it launched two years ago. In North America, we are applying the principles of the Visa Foundation to our local [...]
Visa brings installment payment options to the US
The millennial generation is like no other, especially when it comes to matters of the wallet. Sixty percent of millennials in the U.S. said that they are interested in point-of-sale financing for large online [...]
Building a better workforce for the future
How and what we define as work is rapidly changing. There is a disconnect between the type of work we’ll do in the future and the skills that will be needed to support this [...]
Visa EMV chip cards help reduce counterfeit fraud by 87 percent
Chip cards are increasingly becoming the norm as usage and acceptance has continued to grow since the EMV standard was first introduced in 2011. That’s good news for everyone but fraudsters. The latest data [...]
Lessons learned from the rise of “super apps” and the disruption of banking as we know it
Akshay Chopra leads the Dubai Innovation Center, a 4,000 square-foot facility helping Visa clients and partners build new payments experiences in Central and Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa. Whenever we run a co-creation [...]
Visa celebrates 25 years of ecommerce
25 years ago, shopping malls reigned supreme, Neiman Marcus introduced the ‘gift card’1, and Pizza Hut started accepting online orders for the first time. Shoppers did not have the luxury of buying anything they [...]
The changing payments landscape challenges everyone to balance opportunity and risk
Continued innovation in digital and mobile technology has paved the way for an ever-increasing number of ways to pay. As consumers adopt new purchasing behaviors inspired by emerging technologies, members of the payment ecosystem are [...]
Visa provides thousands with skills to help return to work strong
“Returning to the workforce is not without its challenges” says Anne Gadd Grandy, Senior UX Designer. “When I took time off early in my career to raise my children, potential employers felt I wasn’t [...]
Visa puts fintechs on Fast Track to payments innovation
The United States is a massive market for innovating in the space of banking and financial services, with fintech investment in the U.S. more than doubling to $52.5 billion last year alone. Visa [...]