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One U.K. fintech hopes its cryptocurrency-based prepaid debit card will gain traction with bitcoin and ether enthusiasts here.

In the U.S., most banks and retailers seemed to have given up on contactless cards with the 2011 demise of the much-publicized Chase Blink brand. But the payment format is making a strong comeback in 2018.

The card brand company spent less on client incentives than analysts expected during its fiscal fourth quarter, showing the world’s largest payment network is resisting pressure to ramp up efforts to get banks and retailers to route more spending its way.

Even consumers are fed up with passwords, which seem to do little to deter hackers, but Visa says there's still some life left in the dated authentication method.

This week marks the official start of Canada’s legalized recreational cannabis industry — and American Express, Visa and Mastercard are ready to handle the new market's payments, in a stark contrast to their stance in the U.S.

The U.K. market has reached a tipping point where consumers are conducting more in-store transactions using a contactless form of payment (card or phone) instead of a process that requires the card to be inserted into a POS terminal.

Visa is expanding its Visa Token Service commercially with 20 acquirer/gateway partners it feels can immediately add scale for using interoperable Visa tokens in addition to the partners' own as credential-on-file token requestors.

Earnings at the holding company for First Tennessee Bank beat expectations even after excluding those one-time factors.

Visa showcased payment technologies it’s developing for future Olympic games, including in-home “couch commerce” leveraging augmented reality.

Wirecard is partnering with Visa in Romania on a white-label digital wallet service enabling any card issuer to offer mobile contactless payment solutions through a wallet featuring card controls and account notifications.