Supporting Communities
When individuals and small businesses succeed, communities prosper
Working with financial institutions and fintech partners
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Adding 950,000 merchants in Southeast Asia
We’re helping to spur innovative payment solutions for digital-first consumers and unbanked and underserved populations through our partnership with and investment in Gojek, a mobile on-demand service and payments platform.¹
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Working with the British Red Cross on pandemic relief
In partnership with Bankable and Paysafe, Visa launched a digital aid solution for the British Red Cross to support the disbursement of COVID-19 relief funds to aid the U.K.’s most vulnerable groups such as the elderly and refugees.
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Enabling more than 100 companies to offer prepaid cards
We’ve partnered with Conductor, a technology-processing platform in Brazil to enable them to offer prepaid cards with digital accounts and increase acceptance of digital payments among small and medium businesses.
Our Purpose
We’re working to uplift everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.
Visa Foundation is helping communities recover from the pandemic
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$15 million to support global response to COVID-19
Visa Foundation has provided $15M in emergency relief to support organizations on the frontlines responding to the global COVID-19 pandemic, including nearly $4 million to the Red Cross and $4.5 million to Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance.
Since 1991, we’ve been offering financial education programs across the globe
FOOTNOTES
- ¹(2020, December 11). Visa and Gojek collaborate to encourage growth of MSME business in Indonesia. IDN Financials.
- ² Moody’s Analytics. (2016), “The Impact of Electronic Payments on Economic Growth.”
- ³ Visa. (2020, November 2). A COVID silver lining in Latin America: digital payments surge.
- ⁴ Visa. Transforming Urban Mobility.
- ⁵ Visa. (2018, April 20). Partnering to accelerate financial literacy.
- ⁶ Visa. (2020, September 1). Visa shares progress in latest corporate responsibility report.