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Aug 16 Global payments news roundup

By Jeff Domansky

August 16, 2019

As the end of the dog days of summer approaches, we’ve got our weekly global payments news roundup for you. First, we look at the 25th anniversary of ...

Visa’s 25-year anniversary of first e-commerce payment

By Jeff Domansky

August 15, 2019

first online shopping transaction was 1994

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Hard to believe I know but 25 years ago, on August 11, 1994, Visa processed the first-ever online payment. And what was that first purchase? Some claim the ...