Company Profile for Visa
| Founded | Fresno, Delaware, U.S. () |
|---|---|
| Industry | Financial services |
| Key People | Joseph Saunders (Chairman & CEO) John Partridge (President) |
| Products | Payment systems |
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
Visa USA, Inc.
PO Box 8999
San Francisco, CA 94128-8999
Toll free: 1-800-847-2911
E-mail: askvisausa@visa.com
www.visa.com
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Visa Launching PayPal-Like V.me Service Next Year
By Marc Perton on November 17, 2011 3:00 PM
30 Comments
Visa will roll out its V.me online payment service early next year. The company, which announced plans for the service in March, has also launched a developer program to help merchants incorporate its payment systems into their web sites and other products. More »
Credit Cards To Sell Your Buying History So Online Advertisers Can Target You More Precisely
By Ben Popken on October 25, 2011 1:00 PM
51 Comments
How about a world where you swipe for a Big Mac and then the next time you go online you get an ad for Slimfast? That's the big idea behind Visa and Mastercard's new business foray: selling off all your swipe data to online advertisers so they can more precisely target their ads to what's going on in your skull. It's another nail in the coffin for the quaint fiction we call "online privacy." More »
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Bank Of America, Chase, Wells Fargo, Visa, MasterCard Sued Over ATM Fees
By Chris Morran on October 19, 2011 3:15 PM
31 Comments
Have you ever glared angrily at the ATM, knowing that you're going to be saddled with fees and wishing you could sue everyone involved? Well, it looks like more than one person has followed through on this idea. More »
People Are Back To Making Late Payments On Their Credit Cards
By Chris Morran on October 19, 2011 11:30 AM
19 Comments
Two months ago, the number of people making late credit card payments was at its lowest since Justin Bieber was a twinkle in his parents' eyes. Of course, when you reach a low like that, there is often nowhere to go but up. More »
ATM Council Sues Visa And Mastercard For Forcing Them To Charge Consumers Set Fees
By Ben Popken on October 14, 2011 4:00 PM
38 Comments
Visa and Mastercard have been accused of price fixing in a lawsuit filed Wednesday by the the National ATM Council. The suit alleges that nonbank ATM operators could charge customers lower ATM fees when they use other, cheaper payment networks, but are prevented from this by the set access fees Visa and MasterCard charge. More »
VISA And Mastercard Plan To Hike Debit Card Fees On Small Items For Merchants
By Ben Popken on September 29, 2011 10:00 AM
79 Comments
VISA and Mastercard are planning to sharply raise the debit card transaction fees for small purchases for merchants, according to an analyst note. A $2 cup of coffee incurs about an 8 cent fee currently, but under the new policy, the fee will hike to 23 cents. More »
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Visa Will Incentivize Stores To Install Smart Card Terminals
By Ben Popken on September 19, 2011 12:00 PM
78 Comments
We could start to see "smart cards" — credit cards embedded with a PIN-encoded chip instead of just a magnetic strip — take hold in America next year due to a big move by Visa. They are offering some very enticing financial incentives to stores to get them to install point of sale terminals that can read smart cards. More »
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Small Business Credit Cards Come With Risks That Your Personal Card Doesn't
By Chris Morran on May 18, 2011 4:17 PM
20 Comments
In spite of the "small business" name, there is nothing about most so-called small business credit cards that requires the cardholder to actually own or operate a business. In fact, over a five year period ending last December, credit card companies sent out more than 2.6 billion business card offers to regular Janes and Joes in the U.S. But while these cards are available to the everyday consumer, they do not come with all the protections associated with non-business credit cards. More »
Visa Developing "One-Click" Payment System
By Ben Popken on May 12, 2011 4:00 PM
37 Comments
Visa announced that they're working on a "one-click" payment system that would make it easier for consumers to shop online without having to enter their credit card and billing information over and over again. More »
E-Mail Breach Hits Best Buy, TiVo, Walgreens, Chase, Kroger, Many More
By Chris Morran on April 4, 2011 4:33 AM
69 Comments
What first looked like a small e-mail list breach at New York & Company over the weekend was just the tip of the iceberg as multiple national retailers and banks found themselves the victim of the same data hackers. More »
