Kathmandu. Visa, the world’s leading digital payments company, reaffirmed its commitment to advancing Nepal’s digital payments ecosystem by hosting the Visa Leadership Conclave Nepal 2025 on November 26, 2022. The event was attended by more than 200 participants, including senior executives from banking and fintech partners, merchants, and payment processor institutions. They previewed Visa Accept, the latest acceptance of Visa, designed to celebrate industry excellence and empower home and small businesses. <\/p>\n
The conference held at the Kathmandu Marriott Hotel was a platform for cooperation and knowledge exchange in which Deputy Governor of Nepal Rastra Bank Bam Bahadur Mishra and Executive Director of Nepal Rastra Bank Dr. Special guests like Satyendra Timilsina were present. Visa’s team includes Sabbir Ahamad, Country Manager for Bangladesh, Nepal and Bhutan, Ramakrishnan Gopalan, Product Head for India and South Asia, and Manoj Thapa, Head of Business for Nepal. <\/p>\n
Sabbir Ahmad, Country Manager for Bangladesh, Nepal and Bhutan at Visa, said, “We are delighted to host Visa’s Leadership Conclave \u2013 an event we have been proudly hosting in Nepal for many years. It is our constant endeavour to bring industry leaders together to engage in a constructive dialogue that will shape the future of Nepal’s digital economy. Over the years, this forum reinforces our shared ambition to digitalize Nepal’s payments landscape and reaffirms Visa’s commitment to contributing to market-relevant world-class solutions. Therefore, we thought it appropriate to showcase the Visa Acceptance at this year’s Conclave, which aligns with Nepal’s digital transformation priorities and reflects our continued commitment to supporting home and small businesses. More than a payment innovation, Visa Accept is a strategic step towards deeper financial inclusion, enabling small merchants to become active participants in the formal economy. \u201d<\/p>\n
Ramakrishnan Gopalan, Product Head, India and South Asia, Visa, said, “The Visa Leadership Conclave in Nepal is not only a celebration of progress, it is an important platform to shape the future of payments. Visa Accept is an innovative solution developed to streamline approval processes and support the growth of home and small businesses across Nepal. Visa Acceptance enables merchants to accept digital payments using only their mobile phones, advancing financial inclusion, accelerating digital payments, and helping Nepal’s vision of a cashless economy. This is an important step towards creating secure, scalable, and inclusive payment experiences for everyone. \u201d<\/p>\n
Executive Director of Nepal Rastra Bank, Dr. The award ceremony was attended by Chief Guest Dr. Satyendra Timilsina and Chief Guest Bam Bahadur Mishra, Deputy Governor of Nepal Rastra Bank. The award ceremony honored 13 winners in 20 categories for their achievements from July 2024 to June 2025. Categories included consumer debit and credit cards, prepaid cards, business acquisition, cross-border payments, contactless solutions, business cards, fintech partnerships, product innovation, and merchant excellence. The Visa Leadership Conclave Nepal 2025 reaffirmed Visa’s commitment to fostering partnerships and providing cutting-edge solutions that will accelerate Nepal’s journey towards a digitally empowered economy. <\/p>\n
About Visa Accept: <\/strong><\/p>\n Visa Accept provides a quick, secure way for small merchants to turn any mobile phone into an acceptance tool and start accepting digital payments. Within minutes, businesses can receive payments via tap to phone or pay by link, offering customers a seamless and reliable checkout experience. <\/p>\n Opening a merchant account can often involve complex hassles such as complicated documentation, licensing, and expensive point-of-sale equipment, but Visa Accept transforms its structure by enabling Visa debit or prepaid cardholders to instantly convert their account into a seller profile using their mobile phone, simply using their mobile phone. By lowering entry barriers and simplifying setup, Visa Accept opens up new economic opportunities, especially for home small businesses and women entrepreneurs, who can use this accessible avenue to grow and scale their enterprises. <\/p>\n About the visa<\/strong><\/p>\n }<\/p>\n Visa is a global leader in digital payments, facilitating transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities in more than 200 countries and regions. Our goal is to connect the world through the latest, most convenient, reliable, and secure payment networks, so that individuals, businesses, and economies can thrive. We believe that an economy that includes everyone everywhere makes everyone better everywhere and we consider access to be fundamental to the future of currency operations. Find out more at Visa.com. . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Kathmandu. Visa, the world’s leading digital payments company, reaffirmed its commitment to advancing Nepal’s digital payments ecosystem by hosting the Visa Leadership Conclave Nepal 2025 on November 26, 2022. The event was attended by more than 200 participants, including senior executives from banking and fintech partners, merchants, and payment processor institutions. They previewed Visa Accept, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":277575,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45159],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/media\/277575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}