Visa, the world’s digital payments leader, has officially inaugurated its new office in Pakistan.
The new purpose-built office space is designed to facilitate a hybrid work environment and offers seamless collaboration between clients and partners.
“With the new office, Visa aims to strengthen its ongoing talent acquisition strategy by attracting and retaining key talent. Year-on-year, Visa offices in North Africa, Levant and Pakistan (NALP) region have seen 15% growth in employee evolution,” Visa said in its statement.
Visa’s expanded on-ground presence in Pakistan “is a testament to its commitment to supporting the company’s financial institution and merchant clients, local government partners, investments and local communities as part of continued efforts to drive digitalization of the payments landscape.”
Umar S. Khan, Visa Country Manager for Pakistan, said that “Visa’s mission is to drive digital commerce for the benefit of consumers, businesses, and the economy across Pakistan.”
The new office will enable the team to continue collaborations with local financial institution clients, merchants, and fintech partners to develop and deploy efficient, convenient, and secure processes for offline and online commerce, Khan said.
Visa has witnessed seen digital payment adoption increase at a much faster pace and is committed to supporting Pakistan’s journey to a cashless economy through digital transformation. The company’s many innovative solutions deployed over the years continue to encourage this shift to digital payments in Pakistan.
Visa continues to support the growing payments ecosystem and digital economy in the NALP region by empowering fintechs through partnerships with the Visa Acceptance Cloud and bringing low-cost acceptance solutions like Click to Pay and visa Tap to Phone for small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs).