Paysend Expands Visa Partnership with New Program to Enhance Cross-Border Payments
London, UK – Tue, Oct 21 – Paysend is expanding its long-standing partnership with Visa through a new program that will make Paysend’s Enterprise API — a technology interface that allows businesses to integrate Paysend’s payment capabilities into their own systems — available to Visa merchants and collaborators across North America. This expansion builds on established work between the two companies to help facilitate the movement of money across borders (availability varies by geography).
Since 2023, Paysend and Visa have worked together to enable customers to send money in real-time* to Visa debit cards in more than 100 markets and territories, helping reduce delays and improving transparency in the payment process. By integrating Paysend’s technology with Visa’s vast network, this expanded collaboration aims to accelerate adoption among Visa’s merchant and collaborator ecosystem, enabling more businesses to offer real-time, transparent money transfers.
*Actual fund availability depends on the receiving financial institution and region.
“Our ongoing collaboration with Paysend demonstrates the value of combining Visa’s global reach with innovative payment technology,” said Justin Zhao, Head of Global Partnerships and Sales at Visa Direct. “With this next phase, we are addressing common challenges in cross-border payments and helping to set new expectations for speed, transparency, and convenience in the industry.”
In September, the collaboration was featured in the launch of the new season of the ‘Paysend Series’ - Paysend’s interview series spotlighting industry trends and forward thinkers. Filmed at Visa’s San Francisco headquarters, the first episode featured Justin Zhao of Visa Direct, kicking off a season dedicated to thought leadership and open dialogue on the future of cross-border money transfer and digital payments.
You can watch the new Paysend Series on the Paysend YouTube channel > Paysend Series 2025 Ep.1 - feat. Justin Zhao, Visa Direct, and Rick Castello, Paysend
Rick Castello, Head of North America Sales at Paysend says, “Visa has been a key strategic partner for us over the years, and this next step is a game-changer. By making our Enterprise API available through Visa’s network, we’re bringing instant, secure payments to even more people and businesses. Having the new ‘Paysend Series’ in partnership with Visa serving as the opening move in our co-branding campaign, we’re showing the world how this collaboration is reshaping the future of cross-border money movement.”
Paysend partners with Central Payments, the program manager for Paysend U.S. to enable backend payment processing capabilities and ensure regulatory compliance.
About Paysend
Paysend is a financial technology business building the world's largest cross-border digital network. Paysend makes cross-border money movement faster, cheaper and more accessible for consumers and enterprises —anywhere, in any currency, and through any method. Founded in 2017 with the introduction of card-to-card transfers, we now offer a comprehensive suite of financial solutions that go beyond traditional money transfers.
With a global reach and offices in London, Belgrade, Dublin, and Miami, Paysend serves over 11 million customers in 170+ countries. Paysend provides access to over 25 billion endpoints to make cross-border payments simple and accessible for everyone. The platform supports seamless cross-network operability, connecting Mastercard, Visa, China UnionPay, local card schemes, Instant Payment Systems, wallets, smartphones and local ACH and payment systems worldwide. Regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority, Paysend ensures secure and dependable payment services, backed by 24/7 global customer support.
For more information, visit https://paysend.com.
About Central Payments
Central Payments is a U.S. based payments organization built by bankers to serve the unique needs of today’s financial services industry. We architect, build, and fully administer payment programs for a variety of use cases in card issuance, digital wallets, and money movement – serving banks and brands.
For more information, visit https://central-payments.com/.
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London, UK – Tue, Oct 21 – Paysend is expanding its long-standing partnership with Visa through a new program that will make Paysend’s Enterprise API — a technology interface that allows businesses to integrate Paysend’s payment capabilities into their own systems — available to Visa merchants and collaborators across North America. This expansion builds on established work between the two companies to help facilitate the movement of money across borders (Availability varies by geography).
Today, Paysend announced the launch of its new instant global transfer service, designed to be the fastest and simplest way to send and receive money across borders.
At the heart of this new service is real-time global peer-to-peer (P2P) payments, enabling money to move instantly between two people anywhere in the world — all they need is a smartphone.
