Western Union is teaming up with Visa Direct to enable real time push payments that will bring more speed and transparency to sending money around the world; once this service is live Western Union will offer customers an expedited remittance service onto debit cards; Western Union completed more than 800 million transactions for consumer and business clients in 2018; the global head of push payments for Visa, Bill Sheley, said, “Together Visa Direct and Western Union are collaborating with plans to scale real-time cross border payments to businesses and consumers in more than 200 countries and territories in more than 130 currencies”. Source.
