"visa" news, interviews, and features

News about visa

• Tech talent visa scheme to continue

  More than 20 'Global Talent Employer Sponsored' agreements made so far

• Q-CTRL becomes first start-up to take part in new visa scheme

  Five companies are taking part in the 12 month Global Talent Scheme pilot program

• Govt to pilot 457 fix for tech talent

  The Global Talent Scheme will make it easier for big business and tech start-ups to hire skilled talent from overseas

• Govt calls on partners for global visa processing platform

  Comes as part of a move to increase the outsourcing of Australia’s visa processing operations

• Industry kerfuffle over visa jobs shuffle

  ITPA challenges the Government's skilled visa changes

• Jobs shuffle sees tech sector covered in Govt 457 visa revamp

  457 backlash leads to greater scope for IT community in new visa regime

Features about visa

• Chip and PIN: No panacea, but worth the effort – and the cost

  "What will change is that if there is an incidence of card fraud, whichever party has the lesser technology will bear the liability"

• Supervalu breach shows why move to smartcards is long overdue

  US remains one of the last developed nations to use magnetic stripe cards

• 5 issues that could hamper EMV smartcard adoption in the U.S.

  Separating post-Target hype from the reality

• Retailer hauls Visa to court over $13.3M fine for payment card data breach

  Fine is illegal, unjustified and in violation of Visa's own policies, says Genesco

• Visa, NeuStar team on mobile payments and financial services

  Services include bill payments, mobile transaction alerts and mobile money transfers

• Visa leans on virtualization to transform data centers

  Visa looking to replicate data center success across globe