TSYS has announced it will be supporting a new co-branded Visa offered by Toyota Finance and Nikko Cordial Securities in Japan.   » Continue Reading

Best Buy has announced enhancements to its customer loyalty program, Reward Zone, including the launch of the Best Buy Reward Zone program MasterCard card, issued by HSBC. The Reward Zone program will now allow customers to choose between two levels of rewards.   » Continue Reading

Visa has announced the completion of major technology milestones, chief among them the company's completion of a five-year initiative to completely re-engineer its global authorization engine, the Visa Integrated Payment platform. According to Visa, the result is "a state-of-the-art, modular processing platform that is highly scalable, flexible and secure, and combines unsurpassed global reach with the processing power to support Visa's future growth and product innovation."   » Continue Reading

Visa International has announced that the value of all purchases and cash withdrawals made with Visa Commercial payment solutions worldwide reached US$317 billion for the four quarters ended June 30, 2006, growing 24 percent year over year.   » Continue Reading

East Japan Railway Company (JR East), NTT DoCoMo, JCB and bitWallet have announced that they have agreed to share a common platform to enable their e-payment brands - Suica, iD, QUICPay and Edy - to share the same point-of-sale reader/writer device and data center. The system is expected to begin commercial operation with the Suica and iD brands in January 2007, with QUICPay and Edy to be added subsequently.   » Continue Reading

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