Vodafone Australia and Visa will next year launch Vodafone SmartPass for smartphones with near-field communication (NFC) enabled, to allow contactless payments at stores with PayWave payment systems.

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Visa today announced that it has processed one billion additional touch-free payments1, where previously consumers would have needed to enter their PIN, as consumer ...

Economic fallout from the global pandemic began swiftly and mercilessly when in-person commerce all but stopped. Overnight, businesses were faced with a sink or swim moment and many rushed to adapt ...

Visa has a new solution for shops wary of handling cash. On Wednesday, the financial services company unveiled a new “Tap to Phone” product that can turn Android smartphones into contactless payment ...

Though banks have issued roughly half as many Visa Contactless RFID-enabled credit and debit cards as they have MasterCard PayPass cards (5.5 million versus more than 10 million), Visa is pushing ...

Visa on Wednesday announced that its Visa Tap to Phone product is available in over 15 markets and will expand to the United States next year. The product allows merchants with Android devices to ...

Less than a year since contactless limits increased across Europe, Visa has hit one billion additional touch-free transactions, 400 million of which took place in the UK. Consumers and merchants are ...