TAG Joins Visa Fintech Fast Track Program

15 April 2021, Islamabad – In the Central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (CEMEA) area, TAG from Pakistan has joined Visa’s Fintech Fast Track programme. This programme enables Visa’s fintech partners to create and deliver novel commerce experiences on Visa’s payments network more quickly and easily.
TAG is a fintech aimed towards millennials that allows them to create mobile wallets, perform P2P financial transfers, shop online, and pay bills. The two companies will collaborate as part of Visa’s Fintech Fast Track programme to expand financial inclusion in Pakistan by providing fully digital banking and payments to everyone with a smartphone.

15 April 2021, Islamabad – In the Central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (CEMEA) area, TAG from Pakistan has joined Visa’s Fintech Fast Track programme. This programme enables Visa’s fintech partners to create and deliver novel commerce experiences on Visa’s payments network more quickly and easily.


TAG is a fintech aimed towards millennials that allows them to create mobile wallets, perform P2P financial transfers, shop online, and pay bills. The two companies will collaborate as part of Visa’s Fintech Fast Track programme to expand financial inclusion in Pakistan by providing fully digital banking and payments to everyone with a smartphone.

TAG will also be a part of the Visa Direct ecosystem, which will accept payments from Visa issuers all around the world in order to pay freelancers and automate home remittances for Pakistan.


“We are thrilled to support TAG in strengthening their capabilities with Visa Direct, our real-time push payments technology that delivers a seamless payment experience coupled with speedier transaction settlements,” said Kamil Khan, Visa’s Country Manager for Pakistan. TAG can quickly and easily adopt Visa Direct using our APIs, reducing time to market and allowing them to start delivering their consumers the convenience of simple, rapid, and secure payments.”

Fintechs can now use the Visa Fintech Fast Track programme to gain access to Visa’s global payments network. Visa’s global objective to expand our network and support a diverse spectrum of companies building novel commerce experiences includes the programme. The fintech fast-track initiative offers strategic investment, a new commercial framework that includes faster processes and easier access to Visa’s payment capabilities to enable businesses of all sizes and stages of growth. Visit Visa Fintech Fast-Track for additional details.

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