The Open Banking Interviews: Daniel Van Delft, Country Manager Visa, Netherlands

At Money2020, in Amsterdam, I had the pleasure to talk to Daniel Van Delft, Country Manager of Visa in the Netherland. We discussed on how Visa Inc. looks at Open Banking and how this may affect the way Visa is changing the way we pay.

Part II of The Open Banking Interviews (see part I, with Joris Hensen at Deutsche Bank).

Visa recently announcement a couple of new partnerships. Can you tell us a bit more about that?

The last few months, several partnerships were announced, all with the intention to support the ecosystem we’re involved in. Visa did not step into these partnerships with the idea to start venturing, as an investment. The ultimate goal of these partnerships is to become better altogether.

The ones with Currencycloud, B.yond, and Natixis are a few of them. This way we thrive to make payments more seamless, from an enterprise perspective, at a faster pace.

All the partnerships are linked to this ambition. They should all provide building blocks to better support the ecosystem we share in the four-party model. They should make it better, whether that is on the issuing side or the acquiring side, for consumers or for the merchants…