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Visa Launches Blockchain-Powered Technology for B2B Payments
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Visa Inc. (V - Free Report) has launched a network called Visa B2B Connect based on blockchain architecture to facilitate secure and transparent transactions for businesses across the globe.
The business-to-business (B2B) payments space offers a vast market for Visa as businesses are recognizing the advantages of digitizing payments, which involve more data, control and automation. According to Deloitte, B2B digital payments are forecast to reach $23.1 trillion in 2020, as most of the companies transact purchases online and pay their receivables through digital channels.
A survey by the Association for Financial Professionals points to the fact that more than half of all B2B payments — 51% — are still made by paper check, which carries an element of insecurity and inconvenience. This is one of the foremost reasons why businesses are switching to digital payment options.
With the use of digital payment products, businesses are experiencing substantial reduction in the cost and risk associated with paper processes in general, but the greatest benefits lie in business payment inefficiencies and payments fraud risk.
Sensing this opportunity, Visa has been making concerted efforts to deepen its reach in the B2B payments space. In fiscal 2018 (year ended Sep 30, 2018), Visa’s B2B payments volume grew to $950 billion, or more than 11% of its total payments volume. While Visa leads this segment in terms of card solutions, it continues to invest in growing its share of the significant B2B payment opportunity.
In this vein, recently Visa acquired Fraedom, a software-as-a-service company that provides products and services such as expense management and accounts payable to financial institutions and their corporate customers. It also formed a strategic partnership with WEX, a leading provider of corporate payment solutions, in July 2018. The partnership allows WEX and their corporate payment customers to use a Visa virtual card to make global B2B payments.
Year to date, the stock has gained 27% compared with the industry’s growth of 20%.
Visa remains the frontrunner in the payments industry when it comes to innovation and technology, business growth, tie-ups and partnerships. These factors have driven business volumes for the company with payments volumes of $7.6 trillion achieved in 2018 compared with $3.8 trillion for Mastercard Inc. (MA - Free Report) , $1.1 trillion for American Express Co. (AXP - Free Report) and $159 billion for Discover Financial Services (DFS - Free Report) in the same space.
Last year, it generated $8 billion in global revenues. By 2020, it's predicted to blast through the roof to $47 billion. Famed investor Mark Cuban says it will produce "the world's first trillionaires," but that should still leave plenty of money for regular investors who make the right trades early.
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Visa Launches Blockchain-Powered Technology for B2B Payments
Visa Inc. (V - Free Report) has launched a network called Visa B2B Connect based on blockchain architecture to facilitate secure and transparent transactions for businesses across the globe.
The business-to-business (B2B) payments space offers a vast market for Visa as businesses are recognizing the advantages of digitizing payments, which involve more data, control and automation. According to Deloitte, B2B digital payments are forecast to reach $23.1 trillion in 2020, as most of the companies transact purchases online and pay their receivables through digital channels.
A survey by the Association for Financial Professionals points to the fact that more than half of all B2B payments — 51% — are still made by paper check, which carries an element of insecurity and inconvenience. This is one of the foremost reasons why businesses are switching to digital payment options.
With the use of digital payment products, businesses are experiencing substantial reduction in the cost and risk associated with paper processes in general, but the greatest benefits lie in business payment inefficiencies and payments fraud risk.
Sensing this opportunity, Visa has been making concerted efforts to deepen its reach in the B2B payments space. In fiscal 2018 (year ended Sep 30, 2018), Visa’s B2B payments volume grew to $950 billion, or more than 11% of its total payments volume. While Visa leads this segment in terms of card solutions, it continues to invest in growing its share of the significant B2B payment opportunity.
In this vein, recently Visa acquired Fraedom, a software-as-a-service company that provides products and services such as expense management and accounts payable to financial institutions and their corporate customers. It also formed a strategic partnership with WEX, a leading provider of corporate payment solutions, in July 2018. The partnership allows WEX and their corporate payment customers to use a Visa virtual card to make global B2B payments.
Year to date, the stock has gained 27% compared with the industry’s growth of 20%.
Visa remains the frontrunner in the payments industry when it comes to innovation and technology, business growth, tie-ups and partnerships. These factors have driven business volumes for the company with payments volumes of $7.6 trillion achieved in 2018 compared with $3.8 trillion for Mastercard Inc. (MA - Free Report) , $1.1 trillion for American Express Co. (AXP - Free Report) and $159 billion for Discover Financial Services (DFS - Free Report) in the same space.
Visa carries a Zacks Rank #2 (Buy). You can see the complete list of today’s Zacks #1 Rank (Strong Buy) stocks here.
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