Visa joins AWS Partner Network to simplify global digital payments

By Delisha Fernandes

Visa a world leader in global digital payments, has joined the AWS Partner Network (APN), a global community that leverages AWS technologies, programs, expertise, and tools to build solutions and services for customers.

Visa’s presence in the APN will help enable its partners and clients, including cloud-native FinTechs, to access and integrate select Visa services more efficiently. Visa will make select payment services available in the AWS Marketplace, which has more than 300,000 global customers and thousands of software listings.

“Visa is dedicated to better serving our clients in cloud environments, which is why we’re excited to bring Visa Cross-Border Solutions to the AWS Marketplace,” said Vanessa Colella, Global Head of Innovation and Digital Partnerships, Visa. “We aim to make our solutions readily accessible and available for customers to easily integrate across diverse platforms. This is a step further in our broader commitment to reduce challenges for financial institutions and enterprises.”

By making its services available in AWS, the global digital payments company is meeting its clients where they are. One of the first services to be available is Visa Cross-Border Solutions, which assists in streamlining the process of sending and receiving money globally and holding multiple currencies. This strategic positioning will allow clients to integrate solutions like Visa Cross-Border Solutions into their business operations – eliminating the need for them to step out of their established platforms.

Through AWS, the global digital payments company plans to bring more of its products to clients operating in the cloud. Companies wanting to process payments through AWS on VisaNet, Visa’s global processing network, can already establish secure AWS Privatelink connectivity with Visa Cloud Connect. Cloud-native FinTechs, financial institutions, and enterprises have found using cloud services can help accelerate service deployment and customer adoption. It can also contribute to lowering costs associated with local data centers, implementing specialized hardware like physical routers, and payment hardware security modules (HSMs).

“We are excited to support the expansion of digital payments, banking, and embedded finance capabilities to enterprises and FinTech startups building their applications on AWS,” said Howard Wright, VP and Global Head of Startups at AWS. “We are looking forward to working with Visa to help make financial apps in the cloud more accessible, faster, secure, and easier to use.”