Visa and Western Union partner for push payments

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Visa and Western Union partner for push payments

By Peter Walker

06/06/19

Visa has announced a strategic agreement with Western Union, which will implement the Visa Direct real-time push payments platform.

Once Western Union’s implementation of Visa Direct is live, it will be able to offer customers an expedited remittance service onto cards with more transparency for both senders and receivers.

“Together Visa Direct and Western Union are collaborating with plans to scale real-time cross border payments to businesses and consumers in more than 200 countries and territories in more than 130 currencies,” said Bill Sheley, global head of push payments at Visa.

Jean Claude Farah, executive vice president at Western Union, added: “This collaboration enables our customers to have a fast, user-friendly and reliable platform to send funds into billions of accounts across the world.”

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