Visa to Develop Blockchain Technology Solutions in India
Visa, the electronic payments major has made its plans to create blockchain technology solutions at its technology development center in Bangalore. Visa has plans to develop blockchain solutions at its new technology center in Bangalore. A country with the fastest growing economy, A country that has a significant unbanked and underbanked population, A country that receives the highest foreign remittance …is a dream market for the Bitcoin sector. The above lines just described India, and Visa has discovered that sooner than later. The global electronic payments giant has recently announced....
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Visa is the world’s largest payment network and handles nearly 56,000 transaction messages a second. In August 2015, the company had announced the opening up of a new technology development centre in Bangalore, India. According to a press release made by Visa the aim of this development centre is to boost digital commerce globally. It has now been revealed that this centre will also focus on blockchain the technology behind Bitcoin. Visa chooses Blockchain. According to the Indian financial newspaper Mint a Top Visa executive has revealed that the company plans to use Blockchain technology....
The world’s largest payments network is expanding its new technology center in India to focus on blockchain technology development for its global endeavors. VISA is going gung-ho on the blockchain technology and is setting up the infrastructure and personnel to push blockchain development, out of a development center in Bangalore, India. The payments giant had 400 engineers at the technology innovation lab at the time of launch in August 2015. At the time, Rajat Taneja, executive vice president for Technology at VISA revealed that the Indian center will jointly work with existing research....
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Leading global credit card processing firm Visa will soon begin researching bitcoin and blockchain technology, according to a new report. Speaking to LiveMint, the online division of India's second-largest newspaper, Visa executive vice president of technology Rajat Taneja indicated that the research will take place in the company's innovation labs, which are focused on improving its Visa Checkout and mVisa products. The announcement follows a period of indifference from the credit card giant, which has formerly stated it does not see the technology as a business threat, while....