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Visa Government Solutions
Supporting governments around the world to transform their work and impact through digital payment solutions.
Disbursements and payouts
Deliver social protection and fiscal stimulus disbursements quickly and securely to those who need it most.
Public finance effectiveness
Streamline public spending and procurement processes with purchase, accounting, and compliance solutions.
Revenue collection
Provide more convenient and secure ways for people and businesses to pay for taxes, public services, and transit.
Policy input and measurement
Gain insights from card spending data to help inform and shape public sector strategies and decision-making.
Our impact around the world
Disbursements in Guatemala
Helping deliver financial aid to 2.7 million families in need in Guatemala using virtual bank accounts.
Revenue collection in Ukraine
Helping Ukraine’s Ministry of Digital Transformation to enable digital payments to the government.
Data insight from Charlotte
Maximizing global tourism appeal and economic potential in Charlotte, North Carolina, using data insights.
Driving tourism revenue in Lake Tahoe
Driving tourism and marketing strategies for the Lake Tahoe Visitors Authority using insights from spend data.
Read the Lake Tahoe case study
Helping build up tourism on Australia’s Gold Coast
Using payments data for tourism development in Australia’s Gold Coast region.
Read the Gold Coast case study
Helping relieve economic hardship in Spain
Helping distribute benefit payments via prepaid cards to 200,000 recipients across 120 municipalities in Spain amid COVID-19 restrictions.
Partnering to strengthen tourism in Singapore
Supporting the recovery of tourism and local SMBs in Singapore following the COVID-19 pandemic.
Disbursements and payouts
Governments are building the future of public disbursements with digital payments, to create more effective, responsive, and inclusive programs with lower costs.
Emergency disbursements
Send financial support fast, and directly to those who need it most. Use virtual, physical, or a combination of both payment methods to help provide a better-suited experience for recipients.
- Delivery — Respond to crisis with quick disbursement of aid and convenient access for recipients.
- Impact — Help ensure that emergency aid reaches those in need, including unbanked individuals and hard-to-reach areas.
- Efficiency — Enhance cost savings and process efficiency in emergency situations.
Social protection
Provide vulnerable individuals with a quick and dependable disbursement program and simplified customer experience, helping to improve policy outcomes.
- Speed — Provide convenient, dependable ways for beneficiaries to receive and use funds.
- Inclusion — Amplify reach while improving financial enablement and access to the digital economy.
- Security — Mitigate risk of fraud and ensure targeted use of funds.
Fiscal stimulus
Provide one-time payments to individuals, or grants and loans to small businesses, to support economic goals.
- Recipient experience — Optimize the recipient’s experience when receiving and accessing funds.
- Impact — Increase reach to intended beneficiaries and measure the impact of policy decisions.
- Insights — Enable more targeted use of funds through insights, reporting, and controls.
Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC)
As awareness of CBDC increases, see how to leverage the potential of this new digital currency within government disbursement and payout programs.
- Adaptability — Discover opportunities in CBDC and how to leverage digital currency for disbursements.
- Recipient experience — Optimize the speed and reach of disbursements and improve inclusion.
- Policy — Explore the impact CBDC can have on the economy.
Visa Ready for Disbursements partnership program
Government agencies can work with certified and experienced Visa partners to digitalize disbursement programs and facilitate issuance, processing, and program management. Learn more here:
Government Disbursement partnership program
Public finance effectiveness
Governments are streamlining and automating public procurement and expenses with digital payments, to increase transparency, reduce costs, and expand access.
Procurement
Simplify and enhance how employees procure goods and services and manage expenses. Use virtual, physical, or a combination of both payment methods.
- Efficiency — Streamline manual processes and reduce errors and costs for you and your employees.
- Compliance — Set usage rules to follow your organization’s policies and procedures and utilize data in audit/internal control reviews.
- Data — Improve management reporting and ability to analyze spend data.
- Security — Take steps to reduce risk to funds and information with the help of fraud prevention tools and the Visa Network.
Travel and entertainment
Create easier ways to pay for travel and entertainment expenses and manage employee spending. Use virtual, physical, or a combination of both payment methods.
- Employee experience — Mobilize employees by providing cards and/or creating a centrally billed corporate account for airlines and hotel bookings.
- Compliance — Reduce the risk of fraud and misuse of funds through spend controls and reporting and utilize data in audit/internal control reviews.
- Data — Improve purchasing oversight and streamline reporting to track employees’ travel and business-related expenses.
Fleet
Facilitate efficient management of fleet performance, and enable a unified, digitized acceptance experience.
- Controls — Reduce the risk of fraud and misuse of funds through spend controls and evaluation.
- Flexibility and efficiency — Save time and reduce costs associated with human error, bookkeeping, and reconciliation.
- Visibility — Streamline reporting to track fleet and employees’ expenses and increase purchasing oversight.
Revenue collection
Governments are transforming the citizen experience of making payments to the government, using digital payments and human-centered design to enhance revenue collection.
Tax and public services
Build a unified channel experience to simplify and improve how people and businesses pay for and interact with government services.
- Simplified payments — Support individuals’ payment method of choice for all interactions with public services.
- Security — Protect sensitive individual data and minimize participation in the informal economy.
- Operational efficiency — Reduce the processing and operational costs of collections via cash and check.
Centralize digital services
Empower communities by enabling small businesses to accept digital payments.
- Consistent payment experience — Enhance individuals’ experience by offering the preferred ways to pay across a single digital platform for all multi-agency services.
- Improve user experience — Enable a shift to resilient commerce models and facilitate entry to the global marketplace.
- Promote self-service — Increase operational efficiencies by allowing individuals to self-serve and pay any multi-agency service when it is convenient for them.
Urban mobility
Make cities more livable and accessible with easier, more connected, and more secure ways to pay for journeys.
- Customer experience — Improve ease, speed, and security of access to public transport for residents and visitors.
- Cost efficiency — Reduce infrastructure costs and reap the benefits of increased ridership.
- Livability and sustainability — Encourage use of public transport by improving the travel experience for users.
Policy input and measurement
Governments are using spending insights from digital payments data to more effectively inform policy, monitor trends, and optimize programs and spending.
Travel and tourism
Access unique insights on spend patterns to help inform decision-making in the tourism sector.
- Visitor spend trends — Understand spend behavior and tailor tourism programs accordingly.
- Tourism growth — Access research and insights to build resilience, grow the sector, and respond to changing consumer demands.
- Sector insights — Get a unique view into the split of tourism spend by sector and see which segments of the economy are most affected by visitor fluctuation.
Economic trends
Guide public policy development and measure effectiveness by leveraging insights from aggregated and anonymized payments data.
- Economic insight — Gauge the health of consumer spending and its impact on economic well-being.
- Long-term analysis — Understand changes in spend trends and plan accordingly.
- Policy input — Leverage economic performance indicators to inform public policy.
Urban planning
Support urban planning with unique insights based on aggregate spending trends and partners’ data sources.
- Informed decision-making — Understand and support changing needs of local communities and cities.
- Small business — Support small and local businesses through tailored marketing and digital enablement.
- City development — Understand patterns in commercial activity and plan for sustainable city development.
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