#Visa News

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Visa and Blockchain Capital Lead $40 Million Round in Anchorage

July 11, 2019 by Ashwath Balakrishnan at Blockchain

Payment processor Visa along with specialist VC firm Blockchain Capital helped Anchorage, an institutional custodial service, raise nearly $40 million in capital at an undisclosed valuation. Visa recently launched a cross border remittance network with a pseudo-distributed ledger. This move shows their optimism that more institutions will look to gain...

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DocuSign Wants to Bring Blockchain to the Mainstream

July 2, 2019 by Edoardo Vecchio at Blockchain

DocuSign, an American company headquartered in San Francisco that helps organizations connect and automate agreements, has invested in the smart contract provider Clause to make contracts on their DocuSign Agreement Cloud “self-executing” and “self-aware”. Early Adopter Founded in 2003, DocuSign has gone on to establish a user base of more...

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Bull Run 2.0: This Time It’s Different

June 25, 2019 by Ashwath Balakrishnan at Bitcoin, News

Current price action is eerily similar to that of 2017, leading most people to believe that a similar boom and bust cycle is underway. In a news digest, Micky has highlighted key factors that set the coming market cycle apart from the last one, June 25, 2019. Dynamic of Fundamentals The...

Malaysia Launches Visa Project to Attract Blockchain Talents

June 21, 2019 by Ogwu Osaemezu Emmanuel at Adoption, News

The Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation (MDEC), has joined forces with the NEM Foundation and Jobbatical, an Estonian cross-border job marketplace to organize a new work visa programme for tech and distributed ledger technology (DLT) talents, in a bid to enrich the nation’s technology sector, according to a report by The...

Facebook’s Crypto Backed by Visa, PayPal, and Uber; Whitepaper Due in Days

June 14, 2019 by Eddie Mitchell at Adoption, Altcoins

In the lead up to Facebook’s official cryptocurrency reveal, the social media titan has signed up gigantic backers for its “Project Libra” as well hiring senior UK bank lobbyist, Ed Bowels. This, according to reports from The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) on June 13, 2019, and the Financial Times. In addition,...

Visa Releases Cross Border Payment Solution for Corporations

June 12, 2019 by Ashwath Balakrishnan at News

Visa has released a B2B Connect network, their enterprise payment solution to process international payments for corporations. Experts see this as a push from Visa to move beyond retail payment processing and enter the global corporate payment remittance market, as reported by Reuters on June 11, 2019. Cross Border B2B Payments...

Line Partner with Visa to Expand Mobile Payment Solution

June 7, 2019 by Ogwu Osaemezu Emmanuel at Business, News

In a bid to expand its reach, facilitate cross-border payments and offer existing customers more benefits, Line Pay, the digital wallet and fintech solution from the stables of Line Messenger, Japan’s largest messaging app, has announced its partnership with Visa, a global payments processor. The alliance will also enable the...

Facebook to Pilot its Stablecoin in India Amid Ambiguous Crypto Regulations

May 10, 2019 by Mohammad Musharraf at Adoption, News

Facebook is planning to pilot test its stablecoin in the India despite the country’s unwelcoming stance towards digital currencies. Unidentified sources told that the country still has room for expansion, reported Business Insider, May 10, 2019. Plans to Disrupt the Remittances Market Since 2017, India has had an indecisive stance...

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Facebook’s Crypto Initiative “Project Libra” Is Making Moves

May 3, 2019 by Eddie Mitchell at Adoption, Altcoins, Business, Tech

Facebook is actively seeking collaborators and funding for its cryptocurrency venture, now known to be “Project Libra,” which is more commonly referred to as FacebookCoin. This according to the Wall Street Journal (WSJ), and Gizmodo, May 02, 2019. Project Libra According to sources close to the matter at WSJ, Facebook...

DataLight Report: Bitcoin already ahead of Mainstream Platforms for Large Payments

April 3, 2019 by Osato Avan-Nomayo at Adoption, Bitcoin, News

Bitcoin is already the most popular payment system for high volume transactions, surpassing mainstream platforms like PayPal, Visa, and Mastercard, according to an April 1, 2019, study by DataLight. The cryptocurrency analysis platform believes that Bitcoin is on course to surpass these legacy payment platforms on all fronts within the...

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