Visa

The move will help consumers directly authorize payments to third parties without providing the physical card or full account details.

Visa Inc. has partnered with Dallas-based Active Network, whose customers organize activities and events, to make Visa Checkout available as a payment option at events in the U.S., Canada, Ireland and the U.K.

Consumers are comfortable with push payments, which makes them a good fit to boost usage of digital wallets and other mobile payment options.

Visa is learning that it its reunification with Visa Europe last summer came at a very good time.

Payments volume and cross-border business helped drive the strong performance.

Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Citi and PNC Bank are the first three banks to adopt the service, which is aimed at customers who use Visa commercial cards to buy supplies from Amazon Business.

Walmart still has no Near Field Communication technology to support mobile payments in its 4,000-plus U.S. stores, but it’s added Visa Checkout as an e-commerce option, joining many new merchants that now support Visa’s streamlined checkout process.

Charlie Scharf, the former chief executive officer of Visa Inc., was named chairman of the New York City Ballet, the largest dance organization in the U.S.

PayPal Holdings Inc. and Visa Inc. said they are extending into the Asia-Pacific region a partnership that currently covers only the U.S., in a move aimed at boosting transactions via digital payments for both companies.

Business-to-business payments network provider Viewpost will encourage more small and mid-size clients to convert to electronic payments through Visa virtual commercial cards.