VISA is developing a banking service for Android phones
The Android platform Google already collects a partner of choice by VISA, known for its course cards. The company develops indeed a service that will allow users with a VISA card to obtain various information.
First, the user will receive near real-time alerts from banking transactions conducted by the card. Useful, especially if the card is stolen. Then, the software may VISA warn terminals withdrawal or shops with special offers for holders of VISA cards in the geographical area where they are. Information in case of GPS, or manually if the device is not equipped.
According to VISA, the project will offer three main types of services:
* Alerts: Display transactions with the card. That view may depend on criteria such as the amount at which a warning occurs, or a transaction in another currency.
* Offers means customers will receive offers via SMS, based on purchases made earlier and with proposed reductions to their specific user VISA card. If the company also presents this as an advantage, it is likely that many find it unfair because it induced a “tracking” of purchases. We have a system to the Google ads in Gmail.
* Location: Use Google Maps to indicate to the user where to find the terminal withdrawal compatible VISA and the companies proposing the famous offers.
At first, the offer will be a trial and reserved only for customers of the bank JPMorgan Chase & Co. Chase, the third largest bank in the United States, will therefore be a testing ground, and if the customer s ‘They find satisfaction, the operation may be extended to other banks offering Visa cards. Another limitation: although Chase operates in over 60 countries, it is the only U.S. ground that the project will be implemented, before the end of the year.
