Tagged: visa direct

December 17, 2024 @ 5:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Visa (NYSE: V) says that with Visa Direct, funds transferred to U.S. bank accounts will be available within 1 minute or less starting in April 2025. Consumers, businesses, and governments can use Visa Direct to deposit funds to bank accounts linked to eligible debit cards in… Read More

November 10, 2024 @ 10:01 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

SentBe, a Korean global FX total solutions provider, partnered with Visa to implement Visa Direct’s card transfer service, which allows for real-time overseas payment through Visa’s global payment network. SentBe is the first in the Korean fintech industry to implement a Visa Direct card transfer… Read More

October 8, 2024 @ 8:39 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

This week, OwlTing Group, a global blockchain Fintech company, announced plans to implement Visa Direct solutions under a global agreement with Visa to provide real-time cross-border payments for individual and business customers. This agreement allows OwlTing to potentially reach more than 8.5 billion endpoints in… Read More

May 7, 2024 @ 8:44 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Visa Inc. (NYSE: V) and JP Morgan Payments announced a strategic collaboration that aims to enhance merchant experiences, empower cardholders, and drive innovation for J.P. Morgan Payments’ customers by introducing faster domestic payments in the US through the Visa Direct network. With Visa Direct’s extensive… Read More

November 21, 2023 @ 10:25 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Remitly is pleased to announce an expanded five-year collaboration with Visa aimed at streamlining global money movement for Remitly customers and building on the company’s initial integration of Visa Direct. Through our extended collaboration, Remitly customers “in more than 15 countries, including the U.S., Canada,… Read More

July 27, 2023 @ 2:29 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Moves, the banking app built exclusively for gig workers, today announced a partnership with Astra, the all-in-one platform for faster payments, to offer members real-time transfers using Visa Direct, Visa’s real-time push-to-card payments platform. As the U.S. gig economy continues to grow, there is “a… Read More

July 18, 2023 @ 11:22 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Thunes, the global B2B payment infrastructure platform, today announced the addition of three prominent investors – Visa, a world leader in digital payments, EDBI, a Singapore-based global investor and Endeavor Catalyst, a San-Francisco co-investment fund of Endeavor – to its Series C funding round, “supporting… Read More

April 27, 2023 @ 8:42 am By Omar Faridi  |  

ConnexPay, which claims to be the first payments technology company that integrates payments acceptance and issuance inside a single platform, announces a partnership with Payouts Network, a financial technology firm. Through this partnership, ConnexPay has “launched new functionality that will enable payouts via Push-to-Card modalities.”… Read More

March 29, 2023 @ 4:39 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Global payments technology company, Brightwell, announced that it is making it easier for fintechs, money transmitters, and prepaid and banking providers to integrate real-time payment technology into their solutions utilizing ReadyRemit via Visa Direct. Through this collaboration, Brightwell customers can “launch a fully managed cross-border… Read More

October 20, 2022 @ 8:14 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Visa (NYSE: V) is partnering with Thunes to help individuals and small businesses move money internationally to 78 digital wallet providers, “reaching 1.5 billion digital wallets across 44 countries and territories.” This partnership will now “expand Visa Direct’s reach to nearly 7 billion endpoints, including… Read More

September 27, 2022 @ 7:42 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Visa (NYSE: V), one of the world’s leaders in digital payments, has announced its participation in the Canadian expansion of instant transfers, Square‘s solution for rapid merchant settlement. Square’s instant transfers are “enabled by Visa Direct, a VisaNet processing capability helping transform global money movement… Read More

September 23, 2022 @ 8:27 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Finastra and Visa ( NYSE: V) announced a Banking as a Service (BaaS) collaboration to co-develop new functionality on its Payments Hub solutions and implement Visa Direct – which provides access “to more than two billion accounts through push to account offerings.” The new capability… Read More

August 14, 2022 @ 3:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Astra, a provider of instant card-to-card funding as a service in the US, recently announced it is using Visa Direct – which is Visa’s real-time payments service – “to provide fast payments to millions of its end-users who can fund cards, wallets, and other accounts… Read More

August 10, 2022 @ 7:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Western Union (NYSE: WU) recently announced an update to its existing partnership with Visa (NYSE: V), expanding its integration with Visa Direct, Visa’s real-time1 money movement network, “into Western Union’s United States network.” Western Union’s integration with Visa Direct was “initially activated across Europe, allowing Western… Read More

July 31, 2022 @ 10:53 am By Omar Faridi  |  

As part of its strategy to power its next phase of growth, global crypto exchange CEX.IO has appointed Checkout.com as its preferred global payment processor, which uses Visa Direct, Visa’s real time money movement network, “to provide real-time off-ramps for its customers.” Since its launch… Read More

March 30, 2022 @ 10:19 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Payfare Inc. (TSX: PAY), a Fintech powering instant payout and digital banking solutions for the gig workforce, recently announced the expansion of its collaboration with Visa (NYSE: V) in the US. After obtaining its Visa Ready for Fintech Enablers certification and expanding its platform with… Read More

February 3, 2022 @ 12:11 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Paysend, the card-to-card pioneer and global payments platform, has announced that the company is expanding its peer-to-peer money transfer services internationally. Via the implementation of Visa Direct, a real-time push payment platform, Paysend’s U.S. clients can send money to eligible Visa cards in 107 countries… Read More

October 12, 2021 @ 6:18 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Nuvei Corporation (Nasdaq and TSX: NVEI), the international payment tech partner of major brands, reveals that it’s teaming up with Visa, the leader in virtual payments, in order to offer Nuvei’s US customers with access to quick payouts via implementation of Visa Direct, which is… Read More

October 3, 2020 @ 3:44 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Eddie Lo, Product Manager at US-based crypto exchange Coinbase, notes that one of the “defining characteristics” of digital currencies is that they can be “transacted instantly, anywhere, anytime.” Although this might not be true given the relatively high Bitcoin and Ethereum transaction fees and relatively slow… Read More

May 15, 2020 @ 9:44 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Oxygen, a digital banking platform focused on serving freelancers, gig economy workers, and SMEs, has introduced a virtual banking solution that has been built to offer flexible financial services to millions of US professionals who have multiple income streams, contract work, or freelance working arrangements…. Read More