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Visa Consulting and Analytics (VCA)

Grow your business with data-driven solutions, actionable insights and the latest economic trends.

Featured global practices

VCA advisors are here to help clients and their businesses improve performance and profitability.

Stablecoins Advisory Practice helps clients build crypto infrastructure

Empowering clients to unlock growth opportunities, stablecoins advisors can help craft a strategy and identity use cases.

Learn more about advancing stablecoins innovation

Cybersecurity Advisory Practice helps clients boost resilience

Amid an ever-evolving threat landscape, businesses can now utilize the Visa global network of experts to advance their cybersecurity protocols.

Learn about cybersecurity resources

AI Advisory Practice helps ushers in a new era in commerce

With more than 30 years of AI at Visa, clients can now tap a global network of AI advisors to adopt AI capabilities to help streamline workflows.

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VCA Implementation Services (VIS) helps clients succeed

Access our global network of implementation support, a team of VCA advisors and their extended networks, to streamline and grow your business.

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Functional practice areas

Explore our areas of expertise and learn how our experts can prepare your business for the road ahead.

Strategy

We help clients formulate payments strategies to drive growth and profitability, compete in the digital economy and address key topics such as open banking, real-time payments and emerging third-party platforms. For example:

Portfolio optimization

We help clients identify the right customers and best portfolio actions that drive acquisition, engagement and retention. For example:

Digital

We support clients to develop and execute digital strategies that address issues such as top of wallet, card on file, activation and ongoing engagement. For example:

Risk

We help clients better manage risk and fraud while optimizing the customer experience. For example:

Our insights

With deep payments expertise and proprietary analytics models, our consultants, data scientists and economists are committed to delivering insights that drive better business outcomes across customer journeys.

Featured insights

Get the latest perspectives from our team of experts on trends affecting the future of payments.

Explore our latest thinking

Business and Economic Insights

Get actionable intelligence from Visa’s team of economists based on the latest trends in consumer spending and payments.

Discover our insights

Our process

Explore our approach to advice and analytics and see how our payments experts can drive your business forward.

Step 1: Diagnose

Use expertise, data and benchmarking to uncover opportunities for growth and enhanced profitability.

Step 2: Align

Validate the findings to align on approach to drive business forward.

Step 3: Roadmap

Create a comprehensive roadmap to get you to where you want to be in the future.

Step 4: Implement

Turn process into action with VCA Implementation Services (VIS).

Case studies and experiences

Learn how we’re helping businesses of all sizes stay competitive and find success.

Our impact

Benefit from our in-house expertise, developed over decades across thousands of projects with financial institutions, merchants, fintechs and other payments players.

DIGITAL ACQUISITION + 5 pts In approval rates for credit card applications

DIGITAL ACQUISITION
+5pts
In approval rates for credit card applications

ACTIVATION + 21 % Transaction growth

ACTIVATION
+21%
Transaction growth

SPEND UPLIFT + 27 pts In payments volume increase

SPEND UPLIFT
+27pts
In payments volume increase

AUTHORIZATION IMPROVEMENT + 1.4 B Potential payment volume uplift

AUTHORIZATION IMPROVEMENT
+1.4B
Potential payment volume uplift

CUSTOMER RETENTION 4 x Better targeting of merchants most likely to attrite

CUSTOMER RETENTION
4x
Better targeting of merchants most likely to attrite

PORTFOLIO MIGRATION 3 M+ Cards migrated in first 6 months at 85% activation

PORTFOLIO MIGRATION
3M+
Cards migrated in first 6 months at 85% activation

Our team

Collaborate with world-class experts dedicated to growing your business. Meet some of our leadership team below.

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Nicolas Khoury

Head of VCA, CEMEA

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Claudio Di Nella

Head of VCA, Europe

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Javier Vazquez

Head of VCA, LAC

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Kate Manfred

Head of VCA, NA

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Carl Rutstein

Global Head of VCA

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Wayne Best

Chief Economist, Visa Business and Economic Insights

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Prateek Sanghi

Head of VCA, AP

Careers Join our growing Advisory Services team

Explore careers opportunities with our world-class network of consultants, data scientists and economists.

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