BAKU, Azerbaijan, April 15. Visa plans to expand the list of countries connected to Visa Direct Request to Pay technology, Senior Director and Head of Visa Direct in Ukraine, Georgia, CIS, and South-Eastern Europe, Sanjar Suleymanov told Trend.
According to him, as soon as Visa announced the pilot launch of Request to Pay in Kazakhstan with two partners, requests from other markets, such as Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, and Ukraine, immediately sprinkled.
"We saw a tremendous demand in those markets, where our service of transfers by phone number has developed and people know about it. Announcements and press releases about new connections will be in the public domain. We specially make this information public to show the demand for the service," he said.
Sanjar Suleymanov said that the idea of Request to Pay technology originated very interestingly.
"We were creating the service at the time, and we and our partners wondered why it is allowed to send a transfer via phone number but not to request money in the same way. By developing Visa Direct Request to Pay technology, we simply expanded our service by creating a different one," he emphasized.
Suleymanov also shared plans to expand Visa Direct Request to Pay in Kazakhstan.
Meanwhile, RBK Bank launched the Request to Pay technology jointly with Visa in February 2023. This was the first launch of technology based on the Visa Direct platform, not only in Kazakhstan but also around the world.
To note, Visa (NYSE: V) is a global leader in the leader in the digital payment industry. Visa processes payment transactions between consumers, businesses, and financial and government institutions in more than 200 countries and territories. Visa's mission is to unite the world through an innovative, convenient, reliable, and secure payment network to promote consumer well-being and business and economic prosperity.
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