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  • Irish consumer spending rises +2.5% year-on-year in July – fastest growth since March

    Irish consumer spending rises +2.5% year-on-year in July – fastest growth since March

    Growth of spending by households in Ireland continued to gather pace at the start of the third quarter of the year. Visa's Irish Consumer Spending Index, which measures expenditure across all payment types (cash, cheques and electronic payments), signalled a +2.5% year-on-year increase in expenditure in July, up from +1.8% in June.

  • Visa and PayPal Extend Partnership to Europe

    Visa (NYSE:V) and PayPal (Nasdaq: PYPL) today announced an extension of their strategic partnership to Europe. The two companies are already collaborating in the U.S. and Asia Pacific to accelerate the adoption of secure and convenient online, in-app and in-store payments. This latest step brings the benefits of the partnership to European consumers and businesses.

  • Irish consumer spending rises +0.7% year-on-year in April

    Irish consumer spending rises +0.7% year-on-year in April

    Dublin, 9 May 2017: According to Visa's Irish Consumer Spending Index, which measures expenditure across all payment types (cash, cheques and electronic payments), household spending continued to increase on an annual basis during April.

  • Irish consumer spending increases +4.2% year-on-year in March

    Irish consumer spending increases +4.2% year-on-year in March

    The latest data from Visa's Irish Consumer Spending Index, which measures expenditure across all payment types (cash, cheques and electronic payments), saw a +4.2% year-on-year increase in expenditure. The latest reading pointed to a solid expansion, but still represented slower than the average growth since the series began in September 2014.

  • Apple Pay Now Available to Irish Visa Cardholders

    Apple Pay Now Available to Irish Visa Cardholders

    Today, Visa announced that Visa debit and credit cardholders from Ulster Bank can now use Apple Pay, giving users an easy, secure and private way to pay. Apple Pay can be used with any of the contactless point-of-sale terminals which are already used by Visa cardholders every day throughout Ireland.

  • Visa to Launch First Everywhere Initiative in Europe

    Visa to Launch First Everywhere Initiative in Europe

    Today, Visa announced the Everywhere Initiative, an innovation program designed to encourage the development of the “next big thing” in payments as the industry shifts from plastic to digital, will expand into Europe.

  • Visa Opens New Innovation Center in London; Extends Access to Visa’s Developer Platform for European Clients

    Visa Opens New Innovation Center in London; Extends Access to Visa’s Developer Platform for European Clients

    Visa Inc. today announced the launch of the Visa Innovation Center London, located at its European headquarters in Paddington Basin. The 1,000+ square meter space, the largest in Visa’s global network of innovation centers, is an immersive environment where Visa can work side-by-side with financial institutions, merchants and other partners to develop the next generation of payment solutions.

  • Visa Technology Extends Mobile Payments into More than 12 European Countries by End of 2017

    Visa Technology Extends Mobile Payments into More than 12 European Countries by End of 2017

    At the launch of its new Innovation Center in London today, Visa Inc. (NYSE: V) announced that, by the end of this year, more than 12 European countries are adopting the Visa Token Service, a new technology that makes mobile and online payments more secure and convenient by replacing the consumer account information with a digital identifier.

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