Visa Government Solutions

Send financial support fast, and directly to those who need it most. Use virtual, physical, or a combination of both payment methods to help provide a better-suited experience for recipients.

Delivery — Respond to crisis with quick disbursement of aid and convenient access for recipients.

Impact — Help ensure that emergency aid reaches those in need, including unbanked individuals and hard-to-reach areas.

Efficiency — Enhance cost savings and process efficiency in emergency situations

Provide vulnerable individuals with a quick and dependable disbursement programme and simplified customer experience, helping to improve policy outcomes.

Speed — Provide convenient, dependable ways for beneficiaries to receive and use funds.

Inclusion — Amplify reach while improving financial enablement and access to the digital economy.

Security — Mitigate risk of fraud and ensure targeted use of funds.

Provide one-time payments to individuals, or grants and loans to small businesses, to support economic goals.

Recipient experience — Optimise the recipient’s experience when receiving and accessing funds.

Impact — Increase reach to intended beneficiaries and measure the impact of policy decisions.

Insights — Enable more targeted use of funds through insights, reporting, and controls.

As awareness of CBDC increases, see how to leverage the potential of this new digital currency within government disbursement and payout programmes.

Adaptability — Discover opportunities in CBDC and how to leverage digital currency for disbursements.

Recipient experience — Optimise the speed and reach of disbursements and improve inclusion.

Policy — Explore the impact CBDC can have on the economy.

Government agencies can work with certified and experienced Visa partners to digitalise disbursement programmes and facilitate issuance, processing, and programme management. Learn more here:

Government Disbursement partnership programme

Simplify and enhance how employees procure goods and services and manage expenses. Use virtual, physical, or a combination of both payment methods.

Efficiency — Streamline manual processes and reduce errors and costs for you and your employees.

Compliance — Set usage rules to follow your organisation’s policies and procedures and use data in audit/internal control reviews.

Data — Improve management reporting and ability to analyse spend data.

Security — Take steps to reduce risk to funds and information with the help of fraud prevention tools and the Visa Network.

Create easier ways to pay for travel and entertainment expenses and manage employee spending. Use virtual, physical, or a combination of both payment methods.

Employee experience — Mobilise employees by providing cards and/or creating a centrally billed corporate account for airlines and hotel bookings.

Compliance — Reduce the risk of fraud and misuse of funds through spend controls and reporting and use data in audit/internal control reviews.

Data — Improve purchasing oversight and streamline reporting to track employees’ travel and business-related expenses.

Facilitate efficient management of fleet performance, and enable a unified, digitised acceptance experience.

Controls — Reduce the risk of fraud and misuse of funds through spend controls and evaluation.

Flexibility and efficiency — Save time and reduce costs associated with human error, bookkeeping, and reconciliation.

Visibility — Streamline reporting to track fleet and employees’ expenses and increase purchasing oversight.

Build a unified channel experience to simplify and improve how people and businesses pay for and interact with government services.

Simplified payments — Support individuals’ payment method of choice for all interactions with public services.

Security — Protect sensitive individual data and minimise participation in the informal economy.

Operational efficiency — Reduce the processing and operational costs of collections via cash and check.

Empower communities by enabling small businesses to accept digital payments.

Consistent payment experience — Enhance individuals’ experience by offering the preferred ways to pay across a single digital platform for all multi-agency services.

Improve user experience — Enable a shift to resilient commerce models and facilitate entry to the global marketplace.

Promote self-service — Increase operational efficiencies by allowing individuals to self-serve and pay any multi-agency service when it is convenient for them.

Make cities more livable and accessible with easier, more connected, and more secure ways to pay for journeys.

Customer experience — Improve ease, speed, and security of access to public transport for residents and visitors.

Cost efficiency — Reduce infrastructure costs and reap the benefits of increased ridership.

Livability and sustainability — Encourage use of public transport by improving the travel experience for users.

Access unique insights on spend patterns to help inform decision-making in the tourism sector.

Visitor spend trends — Understand spend behaviour and tailor tourism programmes accordingly.

Tourism growth — Access research and insights to build resilience, grow the sector, and respond to changing consumer demands.

Sector insights — Get a unique view into the split of tourism spend by sector and see which segments of the economy are most affected by visitor fluctuation.

Guide public policy development and measure effectiveness by leveraging insights from aggregated and anonymised payments data.

Economic insight — Gauge the health of consumer spending and its impact on economic well-being.

Long-term analysis — Understand changes in spend trends and plan accordingly.

Policy input — Leverage economic performance indicators to inform public policy.

Support urban planning with unique insights based on aggregate spending trends and partners’ data sources.

Informed decision-making — Understand and support changing needs of local communities and cities.

Small business — Support small and local businesses through tailored marketing and digital enablement.

City development — Understand patterns in commercial activity and plan for sustainable city development.