Thales Joins Visa Digitalisation Ready Program to Speed Up APAC Rollouts
What's happening
Thales has joined Visa's Digitalisation Ready Program (VDRP) to help financial institutions across Asia Pacific speed up rollouts of digital payment features. Initial efforts will focus on Visa's Click to Pay and Payment Passkeys, with Thales powering these services to simplify integration for card issuers. The partnership is presented as a move to accelerate deployment of digital services across APAC. The focus aligns with Visa's broader push on tools like the Visa Threat Intelligence Platform and expanded payment passkeys mentioned in related Visa announcements.
Why it's trending
Because Visa is rapidly pushing Click to Pay, payment passkeys and new security tools across APAC, and adding Thales speeds issuer integration now.
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If your bank in APAC struggles to launch Click to Pay or payment passkeys, Thales joining Visa's VDRP just made the technical path shorter and faster today: here's how that actually changes integration work for issuers.
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- Visa expands payment passkeys, from issuer rollout to AI agent commerceBiometric UpdateJul 3
- Visa Targets Early-Stage Fraud Risks With Threat Intelligence Platform
Visa has launched a threat intelligence platform to help financial institutions detect cyber risks before they turn into fraud. The Visa Threat Intelligence Platform brings together cyber and payments intelligence to help banks and other financial institutions identify threats linked to data compromise, credential theft and system exploitation. “Fraud is often the result of cyber [...] The post Vi
Fintech News SingaporeJul 3 - Visa launches threat intelligence platform; carries out agentic transactions in Europe
Visa has launched a platform designed to help financial institutions detect and respond to cyber threats. Separately, the payments giant has carried out a host of agentic commerce transactions with banks across Europe.
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