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Automakers are rushing to embed payment capabilities and web-enabled features in their cars, with Honda being the latest to make tasks such as parking and fueling an automated part of the driving experience.

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. reached an agreement to continue accepting Visa Inc. credit cards in Canada, ending the retailer’s threat to bar the world’s largest payments network from its 409 stores in the country.

The Federal Reserve and Federal Trade Commission investigated Visa for debit practices, a move that enhances competition in the marketplace for merchants.

Banks are often taken for granted in digital wallets, treated as a "dumb pipe" for funding another account. PayPal is working to provide a more welcoming atmosphere with deals recently announced with Citigroup, FIS and two other banks.

By making tokenization available on each other's digital wallets, Visa and Mastercard are addressing the security concerns of merchants who are happy to accept both brands but nervous about how their wallets can be misused.

Much like rival Mastercard, which recently took its Decision Intelligence AI product out of pilot, Visa wants to make sure that it isn't turning away legitimate customers when it finds signs of potential fraud.

With Visa and Mastercard extending their EMV compliance deadline to 2020 for fuel pumps, EMV is less likely to overshadow anti-fraud technology that is faster and more practical to implement.

Visa's growth beyond plastic cards relies heavily on tokenization, a strategy that should get a major boost from its planned acquisition of CardinalCommerce.

Visa Inc. pushed back its deadline for installing chip-card readers in U.S. gasoline pumps after station owners complained they didn’t have enough time to complete the multibillion-dollar upgrades.

India’s war on cash has at least two likely victors: Visa Inc. and Mastercard Inc.