Visa will unveil its 2025 roadmap and transform the way people around the world shop and buy with AI
April 17, 2025 – Visa today announced its Product Drop event is scheduled for April 30 in San Francisco. At the event, Visa CEO Ryan McInerney and Visa Chief Product and Strategy Officer Jack Forestell will take the stage to unveil new products, solutions and technology partners that are poised
New initiative to offer six creators a share of £20,000 in grants and mentorship, to help power their business growth
London, 9th April 2025 – Visa, a world leader in digital payments, today launches ‘Recycle the Runway’, a new initiative from its global Visa Young Creators series designed to support the next generation of fashion entrepreneurs to reach their full potential.
Visa is inviting
AI-powered platform expands Visa’s value-added offer to help businesses and financial institutions fight fraud
Service operates in an open, ‘any-payment’ ecosystem
Partnership with banking consortium achieved a 90% reduction in phishing losses
April 3, 2025 – Visa, a global leader in payments, has expanded its global value-added services portfolio with the addition of ARIC Risk Hub, a cuttin
Visa invites towns across the UK to showcase their success stories for the third year of Let’s Celebrate Towns.
Six winning towns will each receive £20,000 to fund an approved local community initiative.
Local authorities and community groups are encouraged to enter, with towns recognised at a ceremony in July.
1 April 2025: Visa, a world leader in digital payments, has partnered with the Br
The youngergeneration is driving the subscription economy, with over 9 in 10 surveyed subscribing to at least one service and spending an average of £300 a month, outspending older generations However, 3 in 4 Gen Z consumers have encountered issues when paying for their subscriptions with Direct Debit, including unexpected charges, difficulty in cancelling and failed payments · This co
The newly formalized group prevented more than $350 million (€335 million) in attempted fraud in 2024 using new technology and human-driven processes.
March 18, 2025—Visa, a global leader in payment technology, today unveiled its scam disruption practice focused on identifying and stopping complex scams as they emerge.
The new department, which sits under Visa Payment Ecosystem Risk and
Tap to Phone helps SMBs get paid, with more than one in five (22%) users being new small businesses
London, March 3, 2025 – Today, Visa announced that Tap to Phone – a technology that turns a smartphone into a point-of-sale (POS) device - has experienced a 200% increase globally over the past year, supporting millions of sellers of all sizes worldwide. In the UK, Tap to Phone adoption is even
Visa, a global leader in digital payments, today announced the winners of its biggest-ever She’s Next Grant Programme in Ireland. Now in its fourth year, entries have more than trebled since the programme first launched, highlighting the appetite for support tailored to women in business.
Spanning sectors as diverse as food, women’s health, haircare and physical education, Visa’s 2024
The CatalyseHer Programme aims to provide 500 women entrepreneurs with training and fundraising support to grow their businesses and make them more investment-ready
The programme includes expert training, community building, and micro-grants
Early stage, women-owned businesses with a focus on social and environmental impact can apply from 3rdFebruary
London, 3 February: Today, Visa Foundat
The CatalyseHer Programme aims to provide 500 women entrepreneurs with training and fundraising support to grow their businesses and make them more investment-ready
The programme includes expert training, community building, and micro-grants
Early stage, women-owned businesses with a focus on social and environmental impact can apply from 3rdFebruary
London, 3 February: Today, Visa Foundat
The multi-year relationship establishes Visa as the Official Payment Partner of Disneyland Paris, Disney Store, and Disney Theatrical Group in Europe, Middle East and Africa and provides Visa cardholders special opportunities across the region
London, 21 January 2025 –Today, The Walt Disney Company and Visa, a world leader in digital payments, announced a strategic alliance that will b
Tentative rebound in consumer confidence boosts online sales during the holiday period
London – December 23, 2024 – Visa, a global leader in digital payments, today announced its first Retail Spend Monitor, from Visa Consulting & Analytics (VCA), which analyses holiday season retail spend for the 7-week period starting on November 1, 2024, across the U.K. The findings show overall holiday
Visa Europe is a payments technology business owned and operated by member banks and other payment service providers from 38 countries.
Visa Europe is at the heart of the payments ecosystem providing the services and infrastructure to enable millions of European consumers, businesses and governments to make electronic payments. Its members are responsible for issuing cards, signing up retailers and deciding cardholder and retailer fees. Visa Europe is also the largest transaction processor in Europe, responsible for processing more than 18 billion transactions annually.
There are more than 500m Visa cards in Europe, while €1 in every €6 spent in Europe is on a Visa card. Total expenditure on Visa cards exceeds €2 trillion annually, with €1.5 trillion spent at point-of-sale.
Visa Europe is an independent business with an exclusive, irrevocable and perpetual licence to use the Visa brand in Europe. Visa Europe works in partnership with Visa Inc. to enable global Visa payments in more than 200 countries and territories.
For more information, visit www.visaeurope.com and @VisaEuropeNews
