Visa and MasterCard Report Rising Payment Volumes

Visa and MasterCard both experienced increases in their payments volumes last month. Visa’s total U.S. payments volume increased by 10 percent in February compared with February 2011, while the gross dollar volume of U.S. transactions that were processed by...

The U.S. and EMV

The United States is the last substantial market to resist widespread adoption of the EMV chip and pin standard, but over the past year, the outlook for EMV has improved significantly, with backing from Visa, and to some extent, MasterCard. That’s caused Gemalto, a...