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Company announcement/payments

FIS and Visa target regional and community banks

FIS® (NYSE: FIS), a global leader in financial technology, announced the expansion of its partnership with Visa, a world leader in digital payments, to arm financial institutions of all sizes with turnkey access to new payments capabilities.

27 June 2025

Company announcement/payments

Visiona and Visa form partnership

Visa, one of the leaders in digital payments, and Visiona, a provider of payment solutions for the financial sector, announced the beginning of their strategic cooperation in making the Visa Direct and Visa+ solutions more available.

26 June 2025

Company announcement/payments

ACB and OpenWay launch Southeast Asia’s first Visa Flex Credential card

OpenWay, a global leader in digital payment software, announces its role in enabling the successful launch of Visa Flex Credential at Vietnam’s Asia Commercial Bank (ACB) — a regional first in Southeast Asia.

26 June 2025

Company announcement/payments

GiveCard partners Visa to modernise disbursements in the public sector

GiveCard, a platform purpose-built to help nonprofits and government agencies disburse and manage funds over prepaid funds, today announced a strategic collaboration with Visa. GiveCard will be issuing virtual and physical prepaid cards to recipients, distributing them directly to recipients through various U.S. government agencies.

25 June 2025

Company announcement/payments

Ecommpay embraces Visa instalments

Ecommpay, the inclusive global payments platform, has been quick to embrace Visa Instalments, partnering with Visa to offer the service to its merchant customers.

25 June 2025

Event/payments

On-Demand – Why verticalisation matters: Unlocking success through tailored SMB propositions

How can issuers better serve their SMB customers?

Speakers from: Banco Santander, Barclays Bank, Visa, PagoNxt

24 June 2025 211

Company announcement/payments

Unlimit to add card issuance to Mexican financial portfolio

Global fintech Unlimit has expanded its existing principal license with Visa in Mexico to include card issuance to the fintech’s local offering.

24 June 2025

Company announcement/payments

RS2 collaborates with Visa

RS2, a global provider of payment software and processing solutions, has today announced it will collaborate with Visa, a world leader in digital payments, to offer an end-to-end acceptance infrastructure proposition.

24 June 2025

Company announcement/people

Visa appoints Tareq Muhmood regional president, Cema

Visa has strengthened its regional leadership in CEMEA by appointing Tareq Muhmood as Regional President. This move highlights Visa’s strategic focus on enhancing its executive presence across Central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.

20 June 2025

News/crypto

Visa says every institution that moves money will need a stablecoin strategy

Visa is upping it game in the stablecoin market, expanding its settlement capabilities in the Europe, Middle East, and Africa (CEMEA) region to enable USD cross-border transactions through blockchain technology.

19 June 2025

News/payments

Lunar migrates to Visa-owned cloud-native platform Pismo; adopts Wise platform

Nordic challenger bank Lunar is to begin processing Visa cards over a cloud-native core banking platform provided by Pismo.

19 June 2025

Finextra TV/payments

Cross-border Operations: The Cost of Doing Nothing is Higher

In the middle of a busy EBAday 2025, Anastasia Serikova, VP, Head of Visa Direct Europe, Visa joined the FinextraTV studio to discuss current models within cross-border operations. Listing some of the alternative options to enable financial inclusion - mobile wallets, local currencies etc - Serikova explains the way that cross-border solutions are growing and giving more organisations the capability to participate. Amidst such innovation, she says, the cost of doing nothing is higher than the cost of the project itself.

13 June 2025