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- CIO Sessions: Visa's Michael Dreyer
- Michael Dreyer, CIO of Visa talks to ZDNet correspondent Sumi Das about developing transaction technologies for its financial payment network including new wallet-less and contact-less payment solutions. Dreyer also discusses what it takes to process and handle more than 300 million transactions on a daily basis, and the company's response...
- Tags: Visa Inc., Payment, Operational Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- Visa CIO: Michael Dreyer
- Michael Dreyer, CIO of Visa talks to ZDNet correspondent Sumi Das about developing transaction technologies for its financial payment network including new wallet-less and contact-less payment solutions. Dreyer also discusses what it takes to process and handle more than 300 million transactions on a daily basis, and the company's response...
- Tags: Visa Inc., Payment, Operational Accounting, Finance, Administrator
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- Visa CIO touts new transaction technologies
- Michael Dreyer, CIO of Visa, expresses what innovation means to him in different areas—such as their PayWave technology, which gives users the ability to send and receive money from anywhere.
- Tags: Visa Inc., CIO, Leadership, Strategy, Management, Visa
- Videos 2008-10-07
- Handling holiday peak periods
- Michael Dreyer, CIO of Visa, explains how he tests Visa's systems for dealing with high volume times, and how high those peaks can really go. by Administrator
- Tags: Visa Inc., Administrator
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- Visa to develop apps on Android, Nokia phones
- Visa to develop apps on Android, Nokia phonesHow about taking it to next levelHow about letting android users with their software authorize payments as they happen. So I make a purchase I get instant prompt to authorize or deny the purchase. This would make credit card thefts pointless and deliver...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, phone, Nokia Corp., Visa Inc., Nokia Phones
- Discussion threads 2008-09-25
- Visa to develop apps on Android, Nokia phones
- Visa said Thursday that it will develop applications for Android and Nokia phones with mobile payment systems planned for the latter. First up, the company said Chase Visa cardholders could get notifications about transaction activity on Android phones statement. Visa added that location-based services, maps and merchant...
- Tags: Visa Inc., Payment, Phone, Nokia Corp., Android, Operational Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-09-25
- Visa, banks to test real-time fraud alerts
- Visa, banks to test real-time fraud alertsVISA, banks to test real-time fraud alertsSt.George Bank in Australia (stgeorge.com.au)has been offering this service for some 4 years now. Customers set their own trigger points and receive an SMS and/or email. SMS messages are delievered before cash is delivered from an...
- Tags: Financial services, SMS Message, Real-Time Alerts, real-time fraud alert, VISA bank, Visa Inc., bank, fraud alert
- Discussion threads 2008-08-20
- Visa, banks to test real-time fraud alerts
- Credit card giant Visa is teaming up with with eight North American banks to deliver fraud alerts in real-time via SMS text messages and e-mails to cell phones. The pilot program will allow about 2,000 Visa cardholders to set thresholds that will trigger an immediate transaction alert...
- Tags: Bank, Visa Inc., Transaction, Cardholder, Financial Services, Telecom & Utilities, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-08-20
- US credit card market: Visa - 44%, MasterCard - 31%, AmEx - 20%, Discover - 5%
- Visa had a 44% share of the US credit card market in 2006, compared to MasterCard’s 31%, AmEx’s 20% and Discover’s 5%. The same report said Visa had a 48% market share of the US debit card market, compared to 14% at MasterCard, Nilson Report says. by AM
- Tags: Visa Inc., Credit Card, MasterCard International, Sales Channel, Financial Services, Sales, AM
- Blog posts 2008-03-17
- Apple Retail Store shopper to Steve Jobs: clerk had no right to ask for my ID
- Update: Ignacio, who is the customer in this tale, informs The Consumerist thatthe store manager has apologized for asking for his ID. Apparently in a gracious mood, Ignacio has forgiven the store and plans to go in to shop soon. But he's doing so after all this:Â ...
- Tags: Visa Inc., Steve Jobs, Card, Cardholder, Credit Card, Apple Inc., Citigroup Inc., Merchant, MasterCard International, Ignacio, Sales Channel, Financial Services, Sales, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2008-02-20
- Thing is, Yahoo!, you harvested and used my Visa number without my permission
- Thing is, Yahoo!, you harvested and used my Visa number without my permissionHey Russell....I think I found how they so easily snagged your credit card info:http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/personals/billing/services-11.htmlWhen you become a paying subscriber, you also sign up for Yahoo! Wallet, a service that securely stores your credit card, billing, and shipping information...
- Tags: Sales channel, Financial services, TV & Home Theater, Yahoo Wallet, Yahoo! Inc., Visa Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-01-05
- Thing is, Yahoo!, you harvested and used my Visa number without my permission
- On Thursday I posted my ragin' rant about how Yahoo! Personals found my new Nordstorm Visa credit card number via my Yahoo! Voice registration, and then, without my consent, applied that new credit card number to charge Yahoo! Personals account I thought I had let expire...
- Tags: Visa Inc., Permission, Credit Card, Yahoo! Inc., Credit Card Number, Sales Channel, Financial Services, Sales, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2008-01-05
- Beware Yahoo Personals' deceptive billing policy
- You might be wondering what a post like this is doing on a blog largely about VoIP, but bear with me. To some extent, this post is about VoIP. And athough I try not to air my consumer grievances here, I am writing...
- Tags: Visa Inc., Billing, Credit Card, Yahoo! Inc., Nordstrom Inc., Sales Channel, Financial Services, Sales, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2008-01-04
- Employing IBM Database Encryption Expert to Meet Encryption and Access Control Requirements for the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI DSS)
- In 2004, Visa USA, MasterCard International, American Express and Discover aligned their individual data protection programs to create the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard PCI DSS or PCI. This alignment in standards provided an industry-wide framework that complemented each brands' individual security policies - MasterCard's Site Data Protection program...
- Tags: Visa Inc., Card, Database, Payment, Industry, Access Control, Encryption, Standards, IBM Corp., PCI, Security, Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2007-12-01
- Meeting the PCI Standard
- Identity theft and credit card fraud is a large and growing problem. The Federal Trade Commission estimates that almost 10 million consumers were affected last year, at a cost of close to $50 billion. In order to combat this growing menace, Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Diners Club, Discover and other...
- Tags: Visa Inc., Credit Card, Compliance, PCI, MasterCard International, Solidcore Systems, Identity Theft, Quality, Sales Channel, Security, Business Operations, Sales
- White papers 2007-11-06
- PCI and Visa CISP Compliance: What These Standards Mean to the Independent Grocer and Regional Chain - And How Storenext Helps You Meet Them
- To protect cardholders, businesses and the payments card industry itself, regulations have been enacted that mandate changes in the way payment card information is used and handled. In 2001, Visa implemented "CISP" - the Cardholder Information Security Program. CISP provides tools and standards, and "CISP Compliance" is required of all...
- Tags: Visa Inc., Payment, Compliance, PCI, Standards, StoreNext, CISP, Operational Accounting, Finance
- White papers 2007-07-01
- Visa talks up mobile payments, invests in wireless
- Visa talks up mobile payments, invests in wirelessMobile paymentThe battery life, formats, and safety related to portable mobile equipment, may likely combine to create a shift to broadband dashtop mobile devices from cellphones. Visa might have to find a new way of mobile payment as well.
- Tags: Advertising & Promotion, mobile, mobile payment, Visa Inc., payment, wireless
- Discussion threads 2007-04-04
- Visa, Nokia turn cell phones into credit cards
- Visa, Nokia turn cell phones into credit cardsAnd when you lose your phone...?Where do I sign up?single point of failuretantamount to all your eggs in one basket. lose your phone, your money, your identity, all from leaving your phone under a napkin in a restaurant...Losing phoneI would rather have...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Identity theft, phone, card, Visa Inc., credit card, cell phone, Nokia Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-01-10
- Visa takes carrot-and-stick approach to security
- Visa takes carrot-and-stick approach to securityMissed opportunity for credit card securityThe credit card companies could have implemented many security policies a long time ago that did not require high-tech solutions, but just weren't interested. Examples:1. Instead of requiring customers to write a credit card number on a check when...
- Tags: Sales channel, Financial services, Visa Inc., credit card, credit card company, card, security
- Discussion threads 2006-12-12
- The PCI Data Security Standard: It's Everywhere Your Credit Card Data Wants to Be
- A major advertising campaign by Visa states that the card is accepted "Everywhere one wants to be." Unfortunately and through no fault of Visa, a great deal of credit card data and other sensitive information has ended up in a lot of places that people would rather want it not...
- Tags: Visa Inc., Data Protection, Credit Card, PCI, Tripwire, Sales Channel, Financial Services, Disaster Recovery, Backups, Sales, Data Management
- White papers 2006-11-15
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- Visa Inc.
- Visa operates a retail electronic payments network and manages a global financial services brand. Co. facilitates global commerce through the transfer of value and information...
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