Visa chooses Bangalore as site for new technology center

Dubai: In a bid to strengthen its resources and tap India's incredible pool of talent, global   payments provider Visa has chosen Bangalore as the site for its new technology centre in the country.   The new centre will open early next year and fully staffed by early 2017.  

Considered the innovation hub of India, Bangalore  enables the company to attract a diversity of world class  talent from the country's premier universities and be part of a community that is experiencing tremendous growth in   world-class innovation centres and technology facilities. "India is fast becoming a global technology epicentre   with an incredible pool of technology talent," said Nitin   Chandel, Senior Vice President of Visa's Developer Platform   based in India.  

"The development of a Technology Centre of Excellence in Bangalore is an opportunity to build from the ground-up a   culture of innovation that is reflective of Visa's strategy to   open its network to new and different technologies," he said.Teams at the new centre will focus on the development of key application programming interfaces (APIs) and software development kits (SDKs) in order to help an expanding group of   global partners more easily access VisaNet when creating new commerce and payment experiences.  

The announcement is one of many initiatives that Visa   has undertaken to strengthen its global technology resources. The company recently opened a 112,000-square foot   innovation centre, One Market, at its new office space in San   Francisco, California. It has begun introducing, in select markets, a quick   and easy payment service called Visa Checkout, which allows consumers to pay for goods online, on any device, in just a   few clicks.