Visa com­mem­o­rat­ed its in­au­gur­al Visa Day in Trinidad & To­ba­go by en­cour­ag­ing rep­re­sen­ta­tives of card-is­su­ing banks, ac­quir­ers and fin­techs, as well as mem­bers from the lo­cal com­mer­cial sec­tor, to adopt dig­i­tal pay­ment op­tions.

Dur­ing the event held at the Hy­att Re­gency on Tues­day, Visa shared in­for­ma­tion on the lat­est ad­vances and in­no­va­tions in dig­i­tal pay­ments, con­sumer pref­er­ences, and op­por­tu­ni­ties to ac­cel­er­ate pay­ments in­no­va­tion and cash con­ver­sion.

Pre­sen­ta­tions were made on the in­creas­ing im­por­tance of dig­i­tal­i­sa­tion to the fu­ture of the fi­nan­cial and com­mer­cial sec­tor, the rel­e­vance of es­tab­lish­ing ear­ly con­nec­tions with fu­ture clients for the bank­ing in­dus­try, the im­por­tance of build­ing trust and se­cu­ri­ty in dig­i­tal com­merce and the op­por­tu­ni­ties this gen­er­ates for mon­ey trans­fer in the re­gion.

Jorge Salum, coun­try man­ag­er Visa Trinidad & To­ba­go said, “The ob­jec­tive is to con­tin­ue ad­vanc­ing our ef­forts to strength­en the se­cu­ri­ty and in­ter­op­er­abil­i­ty of the dig­i­tal pay­ment ecosys­tem and en­sur­ing its ca­pac­i­ty to adapt to mul­ti­ple pay­ment plat­forms with the goal of an even more in­clu­sive, more ac­ces­si­ble, more se­cure, and more dig­i­tal T&T,”

Visa Day is an an­nu­al event held through­out Cen­tral Amer­i­can and Caribbean coun­tries, which pro­vides a plat­form for lo­cal pay­ment ecosys­tem stake­hold­ers to dis­cuss the trends, chal­lenges, and op­por­tu­ni­ties fac­ing pay­ments and com­merce. The ob­jec­tive is to ed­u­cate and con­nect stake­hold­ers to ac­cel­er­ate the key ini­tia­tives that will cre­ate a more in­no­v­a­tive, ag­ile, se­cure, and in­clu­sive pay­ments ecosys­tem.