Visa: increased collaboration with the Swift system in B2B

(CercleFinance.com) – Visa announced on Tuesday that it would collaborate with the Swift system to facilitate cross-border business-to-business (B2B) payments by strengthening connectivity between their two networks. The US credit card issuer says it plans to leverage Swift’s transfer pre-validation technology to validate payments on Visa B2B Connect. The goal, according to Visa, is to…

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Russian hackers bring visa application platform to its knees

According to exclusive information from our colleagues at Numerama, the French visa application platform has been offline since June 29, 2023 following a cyberattack launched by Russian hackers. This is not the first time that French institutions have been targeted by Kremlin-affiliated groups. Credit: 123RF Russian pirates have once again attacked a French institution. As…

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