Visa Opens Technology Center in Bangalore
Visa Opens Technology Center in Bangalore
Visa Inc. today announced the opening of a new technology development center in Bangalore, India, that will play a central role in the company’s efforts to accelerate digital commerce globally.
As part of the opening ceremonies, Visa announced mVisa, a new mobile payment service that will be tested this summer with merchants across the Bangalore region and with customers of Axis Bank, HDFC Bank, ICICI Bank, and SBI (State Bank of India).
Visa’s new 100,000 square feet technology center is part of the Bagamne World Technology Center, a 70-acre campus in the heart of India’s IT corridor.
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The center is a combination of office and collaboration spaces that will be the home for 1,000 Visa developers. This team is tasked with making it easy for application developers to access Visa’s 400 payment products and services in order to build their own payment experiences that can work across a broad range of connected devices.
This center is one of several facilities planned by Visa in the U.S. and Asia, and is part of a global strategy to transform Visa’s global processing network into an open commerce platform.
Visa Opens Technology Center in Bangalore
“India has fast become one of the world’s most important technology epicentres with an incredible pool of technology talent,” said Charlie Scharf, CEO, Visa Inc. “Our new center in Bangalore, which complements others planned for Singapore and the U.S., will help Visa to accelerate the development of next generation payment solutions that enable secure, digital commerce through connected devices like mobile phones, PCs, tablets, and even cars.”
Visa Inc. (NYSE:V) is a global payments technology company that connects consumers, businesses, financial institutions, and governments in more than 200 countries and territories to electronic payments.
