How Visa deepens financial inclusion for businesses using Visa QR

Nkebet Mesele, Snr Director, Solutions Management, Sub-Saharan Africa at Visa, breaks down Visa QR - their payment product where your camera scans a QR code to pay.

We explore how it evolved to break down the barriers to commerce for businesses across Africa.

In this episode, we talk about

01:52 - Nkebet's journey from telecoms to banking to payments

03:22 - Exploring Visa's key offline products for Africa

04:58 - How Visa QR came to be

06:40 - Visa QR versus POS

07:40 - Exploring merchant adoption of Visa QR

08:37 - Understanding how QR payments work

16:46 - Visa's marketing strategies for winning new markets

20.00 - [Paystack Merchant Alert] Introducing Branch paystack.com/branch

20:53 - The most surprising insight Nkebet gained launching Visa QR

22:56 - The future of Visa QR in Nigeria

27:15 - The most important question

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