Supporting Communities

When individuals and small businesses succeed, communities prosper

We believe in using the power of Visa’s network to help support communities. We’re actively working with financial institutions, governments and fintechs to help provide underserved communities and unbanked populations access to innovative financial solutions. We also provide relief and support to communities, front-line organizations and small businesses impacted by wildfires, hurricanes or other natural disasters.

Working with financial institutions and fintech partners

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

Bankable British Red Cross Prepaid card.

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.

Policy Research

E-payments add billions to global GDP

The Visa Economic Empowerment Institute (VEEI) is a resource and discussion forum for policymakers to transform the digitization of the economy into a force for empowerment.²

  • From small business to center of the community

    Taking digital payments through Visa's partner, Yoco, was a turning point in Mokgadi Mabela's business. Now, she is giving back by creating oppurtunities for others like herself.

Visa Foundation is helping communities recover from the pandemic

$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.