The Alphabet unit grabbed headlines with pledges to limit tracking, but details remain murky. Read More
Tag: Visa
Amazon halts plan to ban Visa credit cards in UK
Enlarge (credit: Leon Neal | Getty Images) Amazon . com has halted a plan to ban customers using UK-issued Visa for australia credit cards from this week, as the companies work on a “potential solution” to a rancorous dispute that threatened to severely disrupt shoppers. The world’s largest online retailer announced the proposed ban in […]
Can companies mix crypto and climate change pledges?
A Twitter spat and an international crisis illustrate the challenge of mixing business with blockchain. Read More
Amazon’s AWS outage took down Adele, Netflix, and Tinder. It could’ve been worse
While the disruption certainly caused inconvenience, it was hardly a major calamity. Read More
The world has changed but many boards ‘have not moved on’
“This is going very, very fast, ” says Paul Polman. Read More
What the CEOs of Walgreens, Hilton and Progressive think about the Great Resignation
Also: Bobby Kotick, gas probe, and the right to repair. Read More
Resiliency, climate and China: Lessons from Day 2 of the Fortune CEO Initiative
Also: Pfizer antiviral, Amazon vs Visa, and experimental nuclear. Read More
Visa’s secret crypto strategy: Fun
On Monday, Visa was initiated into the Internet cool kids club when it revealed it had bought a CryptoPunk NFT. Read More
In a first for the crypto industry, Visa-backed Anchorage gets a federal bank charter
A startup called Anchorage announced on Wednesday that it has become the first cryptocurrency company to receive a federal charter from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. Wonky and technical as it sounds, the news is a significant milestone for the burgeoning crypto industry, since it provides a legal green light for big […]
Why Visa and Plaid called off their $5.3 billion fintech deal
One year after Visa announced its agreement to buy fintech startup Plaid, the companies on Tuesday walked away from the deal amid regulatory opposition that threatened to hold up the merger for years. The proposed $5.3 billion deal was one of the fintech industry’s largest in history, and preceded a flurry of other mergers by […]