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How a network connects the world

VisaNet runs 24/7 to power electronic payments for everyone, everywhere

As the world’s largest electronic payments network, VisaNet is dedicated to providing consumers, businesses and governments with the best way to pay and be paid. Every transaction has a story – and getting payments from point A to point B isn’t as simple as you may think.

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Go behind the technology 

VisaNet connects millions of people every day through electronic payments, helping Visa deliver the latest payment innovations worldwide.

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VisaNet by the numbers

Explore the facts and figures behind Visa’s global payments network.

 

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Catalyst for Commerce

VisaNet can authorize up to 65,000 transaction messages per second*, settling them to the penny, ruble, rupee, yen, centavo or santang. 

 

*Based on testing conducted in August 2015 with IBM.