Visa picks Bengaluru to set up new technology centre

Dubai: In a bid to strengthen its resources and tap India’s “incredible” pool of talent, global payments provider Visa has chosen Bengaluru as the site for its new technology centre in the country. The new centre will open early next year and fully staffed by early 2017.

“India is fast becoming a global technology epicentre with an incredible pool of technology talent,” said Nitin Chandel, senior vice-president of Visa’s Developer Platform based in India.

“The development of a technology centre of excellence in Bengaluru is an opportunity to build from the ground-up a culture of innovation that is reflective of Visa’s strategy to open its network to new and different technologies,” he said.

Teams at the new centre will focus on the development of key application programming int-erfaces and software dev-elopment kits to help an expanding group of global partners more easily access VisaNet when creating new commerce and payment experiences.

The announcement is one of many initiatives that Visa has undertaken to strengthen its global technology resources.

It has recently opened a 112,000-square foot innovation centre, One Market, at its new office space in San Francisco. It has begun introducing, in select markets, a quick and easy payment service called Visa Check-out, which allows consumers to pay for goods online, on any device, in just a few clicks.