WATCH: Trends and Forces Driving the Evolution of Digital Acceptance

Payment cards have come a long way since the first iteration of general-purpose consumer payment cards in 1958 to Visa's now 4+ billion issued cards globally. Across the CEMEA region today, we see a new acceptance landscape enabling the development of an ever more sophisticated retail payment infrastructure. Electronic payments are becoming more prevalent and available, and consequently merchants have more ways to accept electronic payments than ever before.

In this video, Walter Lironi, Head of Visa Consulting and Analytics for Visa CEMEA, and Salvador Perez-Galindo, Head of Government Relations for Visa CEMEA sit down to discuss the evolution of the acceptance landscape looking at how digital payments benefits consumers, businesses and economies, the acceptance development lifecycle and how can we improve acceptance maturity and the critical role of policy and regulation.