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Applications for 2021 Program is now closed. You can join our upcoming events.
The Visa Innovation Program is an equity-free pilot-centered collaboration platform spanning across Southeast Europe. The program enables fintechs to solve payment and commerce challenges of tomorrow, further enhance their own product propositions and provide visionary solutions for Visa’s vast network of partners.
We are looking for the best and brightest companies to address our challenges. The applicants need to provide proven solutions to drive innovation and technological advancement for Visa and Visa’s clients.
If you believe your company addresses one or more of the challenges, you are welcome to apply and become part of the Visa Innovation family.
Accelerate SMEs post COVID-19 pandemic recovery with digital solutions
- Support SMEs for opening/growing e-commerce businessInnovate across digital onboarding process chain
- Proliferate soft POS use cases with enhanced UI
- Bring best of both worlds, online & instore shopping , under hybrid UX
- Help SMEs grow business through credit/instalments with innovative models (ex. Buy now, pay later models)
- Leveraging PSD2 to allow every SME to become a fintech company
Move cash-intensive payments on the card rails
- Migrate cash dependent B2B, C2B or B2C payments on card rails, e.g. procurement platforms, merchant charge backs etc. stepping on Visa Direct, B2C connect etc.
- Move gig-economy payments (i.e. from employer to gig-workers) on card rails.
- Innovate solutions building on Visa’s vision on becoming network of networks, e.g. RTP/A2A, blockchain/distributed ledger, cryptocurrency, etc.
Introduce new type of payment experiences and infrastructure for the post-plastic world
- Create financial inclusion and innovative propositions for millennials, un/underbanked, citizens subject to government support
- Design aggregated retail banking proposition platforms, e.g. individuals’ management of cash flow, personal finances, investments, savings, etc.
- Imagine innovative solutions to digitalize governments payments, i.e. payments to government and disbursements from government
- Digitalize end user experience (e.g. digital card issuance, automated credit scoring, instalments, credit at check-out, buy now & pay later)
- Create value-added services to enable Visa’s network partners (e.g. fraud management - AML, cybersecurity, digital issuance, payment credentials e.g.)
Help governments in embedding payment as part of their digital city experience design efforts
- Leverage on open data to roll our digital-first, interconnected, services for tourists and locals in the area of urban mobility, public administration and utilities
- Improve the safety and wellbeing for the visitors and local communities via digital tools
- Simplify public services’ access and usage in the post-Covid era
If your team has already completed a proof of concept related to the proposed challenges or has a market-ready solution, you are the right fit for the Visa Innovation Program.
Want to make your pitch more relevant? Show us how you would partner with us. Learn about our capabilities and how to partner with Visa.
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Visa is the world’s leader in digital payments. Our mission is to connect the world through the most innovative, reliable and secure payment network - enabling individuals, businesses and economies to thrive. Our advanced global processing network, VisaNet, provides secure and reliable payments around the world, and is capable of handling more than 65,000 transaction messages a second. The company’s relentless focus on innovation is a catalyst for the rapid growth of connected commerce on any device, and a driving force behind the dream of a cashless future for everyone, everywhere. As the world moves from analog to digital, Visa is applying our brand, products, people, network and scale to reshape the future of commerce.
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This website and the innovation program is operated by Hackquarters in Turkey. Your relationship is with Hackquarters and applications are made to them. You should only submit publicly available information as the information you submit during your application will not be treated as confidential information. If you are selected, your involvement in the program is conditional on you signing the Innovation Program Terms and Conditions, which form a binding contract between you and Hackquarters. Visa sponsors the program and may be involved in selection of participants, but Visa accepts no responsibility for the operation of the website or Innovation Program. For the avoidance of doubt, Hackquarters is not acting as an agent of Visa and has no authority to make commitments on behalf of Visa. As Hackquarters, we hereby notify you as a Data Controller that, according to Turkish Personal Data Protection Law No. 6698 (the "Data Protection Law"), your personal data, including name, e-mail and phone information to be applied in Turkey and shared by you upon our request as relevant, limited and proportional to the purposes for which the data are processed, will be processed with the purposes of the operation in Turkey required by the program you applied, subject to the terms and conditions set out in the Turkish Data Protection Law and other laws to the purposes for which the data are processed.
