• Transport for London (TfL) and Visa proudly welcome home England manager Gareth Southgate and his team by renaming Southgate Tube station to honour the team’s achievement this summer; • Iconic London Underground station changed from ‘Southgate’ to ‘Gareth Southgate’ for 48 hours; • Commuters and football fans encouraged to share photos and videos using hashtag #SouthgateSelfie.
• Visa and Revolut establish partnership that sees Revolut become a Visa card issuer; • To mark the partnership and Visa’s sponsorship of the Olympic Winter Games PyeongChang 2018, every member of Team GB’s delegation to South Korea has received a contactless Revolut Visa prepaid card; • Team Visa athletes Billy Morgan and Elise Christie amongst those receiving the cards to take to South Korea.
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Visa, the exclusive payment technology partner at the Olympic and Paralympic Games, today introduced three commercially available wearable payment devices. In the spirit of the Olympic Winter Games, Visa created NFC-enabled payment gloves, commemorative stickers and Olympic pins that allow fans and athletes to complete seamless and secure payments with a simple tap.
Visa has today announced its global team Visa roster for the Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games. The roster is comprised of over 40 Olympians and Paralympians from 17 countries, including British snowboarder, Billy Morgan and speed skater, Elise Christie.
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Sixty Olympic and Paralympic athletes form the company’s largest, most diverse Team Visa
• New campaign launches in partnership with the British Olympic Association • Everything Counts platform enables the British public to share the stories of athletes on the road to being part of Team GB • Athletes Adam Gemili, Adam Peaty, Claudia Fragapane and Elinor Barker signed as Team Visa Ambassadors
• Visa Europe extends sponsorship of Formula E, signing as Official Payment Partner for the next three race seasons until 2018 • Visa to sponsor current FIA Formula E Champion title holder Nelson Piquet Jr as driver ambassador • Visa Fastest Lap to continue in this season
60 contactless mobile point-of-sale solutions distributed to event vendors More than 50% of all purchases made were card-based Over 100 cashless transactions made every minute at peak times
From complimentary commentary headsets to Formula E style driver training, fans will be at the heart of the action at Visa Europe’s eVillage area
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.
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