Who owns Visa Direct?
Visa Direct is owned by Visa (the United States, NYSE: V).[1]
Evidence: Visa Inc. Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2025-11-06, SEC EDGAR, 6 November 2025. Verified from filings; last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- Visa Inc. verified
- Owner HQ
- 🇺🇸 United States, San Francisco, California
- Origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- Category
- Finance & insurance › Payments & lending › Processors & digital wallets
- Parent ticker
- NYSE: V
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Visa Direct
Visa Direct is the platform Visa built from assets it acquired and developed, including Currencycloud and YellowPepper, for moving money. The 10-K says it handles peer-to-peer payments, account-to-account transfers, payouts to individuals and small businesses, seller settlements and refunds across more than 195 countries and territories.
Ownership timeline of Visa Direct
Where Visa Direct sits in Visa
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by Visa
Visa controls 6 brands on Brandtree, 5 of them in finance & insurance.
Also in finance & insurance
Other brands in processors & digital wallets, and who owns them
The 10 brands in processors & digital wallets on Brandtree belong to 8 owners. The largest is Credicorp, with 2; Visa has 2.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Culqi | Credicorp | 🇵🇪 Peru |
| Argenpay | Banco Macro | 🇦🇷 Argentina |
| Izipay | IFS | 🇵🇪 Peru |
| BC Card | KT | 🇰🇷 South Korea |
| Vocalink | Mastercard | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Flash | Pepkor | 🇿🇦 South Africa |
| Personal Pay | Telecom Argentina | 🇦🇷 Argentina |
| Yape | Credicorp | 🇵🇪 Peru |
About the owner: Visa
Visa is a publicly listed company headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States. Brandtree records 6 brands under its control, and it is listed as NYSE: V.
Visa is a payments network company based in San Francisco. In its fiscal year to 30 September 2025 its total payments and cash volume was $17 trillion, with nearly 5 billion payment credentials available at more than 175 million merchant locations. Its Visa, Visa Electron, V PAY, Interlink and PLUS brands carry the transactions it processes, and it bought Pismo in January 2024 and Featurespace in December 2024.
🇺🇸 Visa Direct and other American brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 2,399 brands that began in the United States. 461 of them (19%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; Visa Direct is not one of them.
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- Allstate — Allstate 🇺🇸
- American Income Life — Globe Life 🇺🇸
- Barclays US Consumer Bank — Barclays 🇬🇧
- Berkley One — W. R. Berkley 🇺🇸
- CareScout — Genworth 🇺🇸
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Visa Direct?
The parent company of Visa Direct is Visa, a publicly listed company headquartered in the United States.
Is Visa Direct American?
Yes. Visa Direct originated in the United States and its owner, Visa, is also headquartered in the United States.
Is Visa Direct still owned by Visa?
Yes. As of 15 October 2026, Visa Direct is still owned by Visa. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
Sources (1) & corrections
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
- [1] Visa Inc. Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2025-11-06 — SEC EDGAR, SEC Form 10-K, published 6 November 2025; retrieved 15 October 2026.
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