V Pay
{{Short description|Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) debit card}}
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| type = Debit card
| currentowner = Visa Inc.
| origin = United States
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| related = Visa Electron, Visa Debit
| markets = Europe
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| website = {{url|http://www.visa.com/}}
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V Pay is a Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) debit card for use in Europe, issued by Visa Europe.{{cite web|url=http://vpay.com/banks.html|title=V PAY – Your European debit card|access-date=August 6, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140625103938/http://vpay.com/banks.html|archive-date=June 25, 2014|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}} It uses the EMV chip and PIN system and can be co-branded with various national debit card schemes such as the German Girocard{{cite web|url=http://vpay.com/bank_technical.html|title=V PAY technical requirements|access-date=August 6, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140701154042/http://vpay.com/bank_technical.html|archive-date=July 1, 2014|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}} {{cite web|url=http://vpay.com/press28.html|title=Postbank migrates bank cards to V PAY/girocard|access-date=2011-08-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111007032151/http://vpay.com/press28.html|archive-date=2011-10-07|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|url=http://vpay.com/press29.html|title=German banks have agreed to issue 34 million V PAY|access-date=2011-08-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111007032718/http://vpay.com/press29.html|archive-date=2011-10-07|url-status=dead}} or Italy's PagoBancomat.{{cite web|url=http://www.gruppocarige.it/carige/html/ita/prodotti/famiglia/acquisti/carige_cash_eu.htm|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130218121731/http://www.gruppocarige.it/carige/html/ita/prodotti/famiglia/acquisti/carige_cash_eu.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=2013-02-18|title=CarigeCash Europa: la carta bancomat per prelievi ed acquisti sicuri|website=Banca Carige}} (in Italian)
Overview
The V Pay debit card system competes with the Mastercard Maestro debit card product. However, unlike Mastercard Maestro, V Pay cards cannot be used in non-EMV environments, limiting its acceptance to those countries and merchants that use this system. Also unlike Mastercard Maestro, which is issued and accepted globally, V Pay is designed as a specifically European product, and is not issued or accepted outside European countries except for some of their overseas territories. However, some cards are co-branded with the Visa Electron system, which allows using them outside Europe.{{cite web|url=https://gathering.tweakers.net/forum/list_message/56795781#56795781|title=Het 'Welke bank?' topic|access-date=2018-11-01}}
V Pay cards began to be accepted at merchants in France and Greece in 2005,{{cite web|url=http://vpay.com/press4.html|title=France and Greece are first countries to accept V PAY|date=8 July 2005|publisher=Visa Europe|access-date=2011-08-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111007032912/http://vpay.com/press4.html|archive-date=2011-10-07|url-status=dead}} and acceptance had since expanded to more European countries.
However from 2019, the V Pay system is gradually phased-out in favor of Visa Debit.{{cite web |url=https://www.kreditwesen.de/cards/ergaenzende-informationen/karten-meldungen/visa-stellt-v-pay-visa-debit-um-id56444.html |title=Visa stellt von V-Pay auf Visa Debit um |website=kreditwesen.de |language=German |date=23 May 2019}}
External links
- [https://www.visa.co.uk/products/v-pay-by-visa/ Official website]