Visa

Visa launches crypto consultancy to help banks tackle bitcoin

Visa expanded its crypto strategy significantly in 2021, spending $150,000 to buy a CryptoPunk NFT

Visa is broadening its reach into digital assets beyond NFTs and cryptocurrencies

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Visa’s links with Square, Stripe and PayPal under regulatory scrutiny

The probe is part of an existing antitrust investigation

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Visa bought CryptoPunk 7610, one of thousands of digital avatars up for sale on the Ethereum blockchain

NFTs are back in business — and Visa is front of the line

Payments firm says NFTs present ‘a new era of internet commerce’

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Visa acquires UK fintech in £700m deal

London continues to attract interest as Visa hits major deal

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Ether has benefited from a major boom in demand for its network's ability to handle smart contracts and other blockchain-based products

Ether passes JPMorgan and Visa to record $500bn market cap milestone

Ether has benefited from a major boom in demand for its network capabilities

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Life after Visa: Plaid returns to ‘owning our own destiny’ as a born-again startup

Aside from eliminating a competitor, an acquisition of Plaid would have offered Visa some major advantages

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Visa abandons $5.3bn acquisition of fintech startup Plaid

The deal had been previously waved through by competition authorities in the UK, but faced an inquiry in the US

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Visa, Mastercard fined Wirecard for dodgy transactions

Wirecard acted as a feeder of card transaction data into Visa’s and Mastercard’s vast networks, which connect to banks and handle hundreds of millions of transactions a day

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