Visa
About
Empowering global commerce with frictionless digital payment solutions
Visa (NYSE: V) is a global leader in digital payments, enabling seamless transactions among consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and governments in over 200 countries. Dedicated to uplifting everyone everywhere, Visa strives to be the best way to pay and be paid, driving convenience and innovation in the payment ecosystem. Learn more at Visa.com.
Use Cases
Real-time Gig Worker Payments
Gig workers receive instant access to earnings through Visa Direct's real-timepush payment capabilities.
Small Business Credit Line Access
Small businesses can quickly draw funds from credit lines via secure Visa Directtransactions for flexible cash flow management.
Card-Not-Present Payment Processing
Merchants integrate Visa Payments Processing APIs to enable seamless, securecard-not-present transactions for e-commerce and IoT commerce.
Credit Building for Individuals
Consumers use Visa credit card options designed for rebuilding or establishingcredit histories with low fees and balance transfer benefits.
Key Features
Stablecoin Integration and Infrastructure
- Visa is integrating stablecoins into its network and treasury systems,piloting the ability for clients to fulfill VisaNet settlement obligations usingstablecoins like USDC.
- Visa's Tokenized Asset Platform enables banks to mint, manage, burn, andtransact in stablecoins, facilitating the creation of new automated financial products.
- Visa is developing stablecoin-linked cards that allow users to convert andspend digital currencies at over 150 million Visa-accepting merchant locations.
- Visa is expanding its stablecoin settlement capabilities to include morepartners and markets, enabling seven-day-a-week settlement and adding additional stablecoins and blockchain networks.
- Visa is exploring opportunities to deploy stablecoin infrastructure tomodernize global money movement, speed up settlement, enhance liquidity, andsupport cross-border currency holdings.
Partnerships and Ecosystem Expansion
- Visa has partnered with Yellow Card to explore stablecoin use cases andopportunities across African markets.
- Visa is partnering with 50 crypto platforms on card programs, allowing usersto convert and spend digital currency at 70 million merchants.
- Visa is working with Bridge to launch stablecoin-linked cards, aiming to makestablecoins accessible to more people in more places.
- Visa is expanding its stablecoin settlement support to include new USD-backedstablecoins like Global Dollar (USDG) and PayPal USD (PYUSD), as well as theeuro-backed EURC.
- Visa is collaborating with Paxos to bring additional stablecoins to itsplatform, enhancing its roster of supported digital currencies.
(Founder as BankAmericard)
Bank of America
(Founder as Visa)
Dee Hock
Headquarters
🇺🇸 Foster City, California
Website
visa.com
150M
Visa merchant locations
70M
Merchants accepting crypto cards
