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Emerging Market Payments Partnership

VISA INC. · 2026-09-09 · Importance 31 · Surprise 42 · In source text

Visa and the International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, are partnering on a risk-sharing initiative for emerging-market digital payments. The initiative is intended to expand financial inclusion and digital-payment access in emerging markets. The partnership creates a new risk-sharing structure but no transaction value, investment amount, or expected revenue contribution was reported.

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revenuepositiveprobable—Visa and the IFC are partnering on an innovative risk-sharing initiative to expand digital payments and financial inclusion in emerging…