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Visa

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Visa Inc. operates the world’s largest retail electronic payments network and is one of the most recognized global financial services brands. Visa facilitates global commerce through the transfer of value and information among financial institutions, merchants, consumers, businesses and government entities.

We offer a range of branded payment product platforms, which our financial institution clients use to deliver credit, debit, prepaid and commercial programs to their customers. Visa’s global network, VisaNet, delivers value-added processing services, including fraud and risk management, dispute resolution, rewards and other business-enhancing applications. Together, these elements provide secure, convenient and reliable payment options in 170 countries and territories.

Our family of global payment brands, including Visa, Visa Electron, PLUS and Interlink, enjoy unsurpassed acceptance worldwide.

Recent Milestones

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  Visa added Pradnesh Kulkarni as Sr.Product Manager. (1/1/13)
  Posted 6/7/13 at 9:18am
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  Visa invested in SecureKey Technologies. (5/25/12)
  Posted 5/25/12 at 5:37pm via dowjones.com
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  Visa invested in TrialPay. (1/31/12)
  Posted 1/31/12 at 7:15am via techcrunch.com
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  Visa acquired Fundamo (Proprietary) for $110M. (6/9/11)
  Posted 6/9/11 at 2:29am via techcrunch.com
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  Visa acquired PlaySpan for $190M. (2/9/11)
  Posted 2/9/11 at 6:48pm via techcrunch.com
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  Visa invested in Square. (1/10/11)
  Posted 1/11/11 at 2:04am via techcrunch.com
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  Visa acquired Cybersource for $2B. (4/21/10)
  Posted 4/21/10 at 6:07pm via techcrunch.com
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  Went public with stock symbol NYSE:V. (3/18/08)
  Posted 8/19/11 at 5:17pm
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  Visa added Itamar Lesuisse as Senior Manager. (1/1/08)
  Posted 1/31/10 at 7:47am
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  Visa invested in Ecrio. (9/19/07)
  Posted 1/15/09 at 9:24am via venturebeat.com
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  Visa added Joe Saunders as CEO. (5/1/07)
  Posted 7/6/11 at 10:12pm
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  Visa added Jim Taschetta as SVP. (1/1/04)
  Posted 2/5/13 at 11:29am
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  Visa added Jon Matonis as Chief FX Dealer.
  Posted 2/9/12 at 5:49am
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  Visa added Charles Scharf as CEO.
  Posted 12/12/12 at 11:20am
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  Visa added Robb Lewis as Sr. Business Leader.
  Posted 12/11/11 at 11:55am
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  Visa added Ray Tamblyn as Senior Manager.
  Posted 8/29/10 at 1:52pm

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Screenshots

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Above: Visa Screenshot -- #1
Uploaded: 11/12/09

Stock Price

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1. Visa Acquires Mobile Financial Services Company Fundamo For $110M In Cash (techcrunch.com) [edit]
2. Visa Buys Virtual Goods Monetization Platform PlaySpan For $190 Million In Cash (techcrunch.com) [edit]
3. Visa Picks Up CyberSource For $2 Billion (techcrunch.com) [edit]
4. Authentication Co. SecureKey Locks Up $30M Series B (pevc.dowjones.com) [edit]
5. TrialPay Raises $40 Million From Visa, Greylock, T.Rowe Price (techcrunch.com) [edit]
6. Square Rounds Up $27.5M Led By Sequoia For Mobile Payments (techcrunch.com) [edit]
7. Ecrio raises more than $24M for mobile communications and commerce software (venturebeat.com) [edit]