062 063 Visa Ventures Visa Ready Discover how we’re putting investing power Visa Ready launched four years ago Competitive business conditions and Token Service Providers, Business behind innovative fintech companies, with as a partner program to support rapidly changing technology has seen Solutions, Biometric Authentications the next generation of third-party the program grow and evolve. It is now solutions and IOT. over 300 considerations and 3–6 investments payment solutions, meeting Visa’s our primary point of contact for payment The Visa Ready program will continue security standards and specifications. technology providers wanting to launch to make the path to certification annually. Notable investments include Square, Partners benefited from a clear path new technology and collaborate with and commercialization of payment Stripe, and Chain. to solution certification; and Visa key industry players. technology hassle free whilst at the from the opportunity to accelerate Current Visa Ready verticals include; same time providing participants in the acceptance and innovation. Mobile Point of Sale, QR Payments, payment ecosystem confidence that if its Visa Ready certified, it’s good to go. Square “makes commerce easy” by Stripe is a software platform for running Third-party Solutions that Meet providing tools that helps merchants an online business, powering payments Visa's Payment Security Standards start, run, and grow their businesses. for hundreds of thousands of companies Square’s ecosystem of online and offline around the world. Stripe works with point-of-sale services offers tools for disruptive startups and innovative global many parts of running a business, from giants to enable new business models accepting cards and tracking inventory, and commerce experiences to flourish. TSP to real-time analytics and invoicing. Tokenization Mobile POS Mobile Payments Biometrics Business Solutions Marqeta is the first modern card issuing Klarna is one of Europe’s leading Chain, Inc. is a technology company and core processing platform, powering payments providers that aims to make that partners with leading organizations prepaid, debit, and credit cards for the payment process simple, smooths to build, deploy, and operate blockchain Visa’s Ready Easy Set Up the world’s top commerce innovators. and safe for customers and its merchant networks that enable breakthrough Marqeta’s advancements represent the partners. Klarna works together with financial products and services. first fundamental updates in the past 70,000 merchants to offer payment 20 years to card issuing platforms, a $30 solutions to more than 60 million users Visa is using licensed software from trillion addressable market covering all in Europe and North America. Chain to build a new bank-to-bank possible cardable spending. global payment ecosystem to capture 1 2 3 large-value payments. CONTACT EVALUATION CONTRACT All logos are the property of their respective owners, are used for identification purposes only, and do not imply product endorsement or affiliation with Visa.
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