Visa, NeuStar team on mobile payments and financial services
Visa and NeuStar have joined forces and formed an alliance that it hopes will help accelerate the adoption of mobile financial services globally, they said on Tuesday.
Heartland earns back spot on PCI-approved list
The processing firm Heartland Payment Systems has been reinstated to Visa Inc.'s list of service providers deemed compliant with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS).
Visa makes NFC payment commercially available
Visa has launched its first commercial mobile payments service for point-of-sale transactions using NFC technology.
Visa pilots new payment card security initiatives
Acknowledging the need for controls that go beyond those offered by the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard, a senior Visa Inc. executive Thursday described two new initiatives to reduce payment card fraud being tested by the company.
Visa drops processors from compliance list after breaches
Visa Inc. last week removed breached payment processors Heartland Payment Systems Inc. and RBS WorldPay Inc. from its list of companies that are compliant with the PCI data security rules. But analysts said the move may be more about protecting Visa itself than about safeguarding payment card data.
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Visa, NeuStar team on mobile payments and financial services