Visa appoints new country manager for Singapore and Brunei
Digital payments leader Visa has appointed Kunal Chatterjee as the country manager for Singapore and Brunei, following his 10-year stint in the company...
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The Klarna lesson for retail banks: find your ‘paper invoice’
The likes of Visa are buying stakes in fintech solution providers to enable them to go direct to market while banks risk being cut off from both sides...
Time for a multi-dimensional analysis of the H1 visa
Immigration expert analyses the problem from a business point of view Steven Riznyk March 20, 2017: The H1b visa has made it to the news through the recent halt to Premium Processing. The impact has created an opportunity for analysis that will hopefully create some positive changes for the H1b visa (usually referred to as...
BTL gets crypto-currency expert on advisory board
To help blockchain solutions company accelerate commercialisation of its Interbit platform March 15, 2017: BTL GROUP LTD. (TSX Venture: BTL) has announced that Jon Downing has joined its advisory board. BTL, which operates from both Canada and the UK, offers blockchain solutions to businesses. Over the last 25 years, Jon has successfully delivered innovation, business...
US temporarily suspends premium processing of H-1B visa
The order becomes effective from April 3 and could last up to six months...
Ecommerce: Fraud by customers on the rise
Buyers increasingly using chargeback option to get refund for their products Suparna Goswami Bhattacharya October 3, 2016: Online merchants are facing a new problem — fraud by customers. Firms are increasingly facing malicious activity in the form of chargeback or friendly fraud. According to Visa, chargeback fraud has been growing at around 41% every year,...
Americans being served cards with chips
Following several breaches, US companies are forced to offer credit cards with greater security features Tom Groenfeldt November 4, 2014: The US is the last country with paved roads to adopt EMV, said Thad Peterson, senior analyst at the Aité Group, passing along a quip he had heard. That’s changing — almost all the new...
Visa to open tech centre in India
The move will create over 2,000 jobs globally IFM Correspondent September, 26, 2014: Visa Inc, the global card payment system provider, will open a new technology centre in India in 2015. This will create over 2,000 full-time technologist positions all over the world. These include conversion of contractor positions to full time positions within the...
Imagining a ‘Smart Country’ – Such as Rwanda
Smart development” and “smart solutions” are the use of information and communication technologies to tackle pressing development problems, such as poverty and access to basic services. 29th july Everyone is talking about “smart development” and “smart solutions” – the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) to tackle the most pressing development problems such as...