Visa Consulting & Analytics (VCA)

Visa Consulting & Analytics (VCA)

Grow your business with data-driven solutions, actionable insights and the latest economic trends.

Insights

We’re here to help clients and their businesses improve performance and profitability

With deep payments expertise and proprietary analytics models, our consultants, data scientists and economists are committed to delivering insights that drive better business outcomes across customer journeys.

Featured Insights

Get the latest perspectives from our team of experts on trends affecting the future of payments. 

Business & Economic Insights

Get actionable intelligence from Visa’s team of economists based on the latest trends in consumer spending and payments.

Our practices

Explore our areas of expertise and learn how our experts can prepare your business for the road ahead.

Strategy

We help clients formulate payments strategies to drive growth and profitability, compete in the digital economy and address key topics such as open banking, real-time payments and emerging third-party platforms. For example:

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Market expansion
  • New product development

Portfolio optimisation

We help clients identify the right customers and best portfolio actions that drive acquisition, engagement and retention. For example:

  • Lifecycle management
  • Loyalty programme optimisation
  • Usage growth

Digital

We support clients to develop and execute digital strategies that address issues such as top of wallet, card on file, activation and ongoing engagement. For example:

  • Digital banking experience
  • Digital bank strategy
  • Digital card acquisition optimisation

Risk

We help clients better manage risk and fraud while optimising the customer experience. For example:

  • Fraud management
  • Authorisation performance review
  • Cybersecurity assessment and enterprise fraud strategy

Implementation support

With VCA Managed Services, we support the execution and implementation of recommendations and wider value-added services product enablement by mobilising teams on-site and partnering with clients to help them scale up competitive advantages and to operate to succeed in the digital age.

Our process

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Case studies and experiences

Learn how we’re helping businesses of all sizes stay competitive and find success.

Our impact

Benefit from our in-house expertise, developed over decades across thousands of projects with financial institutions, merchants, fintechs and other payments players.
 
View some illustrative examples below.
  • DIGITAL ACQUISITION +5pts In approval rates for credit card applications

  • ACTIVATION +21% Transaction growth

  • SPEND UPLIFT +27pts In payments volume increase

  • AUTHORISATION IMPROVEMENT +1.4B Potential payment volume uplift

  • CUSTOMER RETENTION 4x Better targeting of merchants most likely to attrite

  • PORTFOLIO MIGRATION 3M+ Cards migrated in first 6 months at 85% activation

Our team

Collaborate with world-class experts dedicated to growing your business. Meet some of our leadership team below.

Carl Rutstein

Global Head of VCA

Claudio Di Nella

Head of VCA Europe

Alicia Ngomo

Head of VCA UK & Ireland / France, Belgium & Luxembourg

Christian Fegler

Head of VCA Nordics & Baltics

Fazlu Dawood

Head of VCA Central Europe

Szymon Stasczak

Head of VCA Central Eastern Europe

Sertan Sener

Head of VCA Southern Europe

Adolfo Laurenti

Business Economics & Intelligence

Daniel Lander

Head of VCA Managed Services

Explore career opportunities with our world-class network of consultants, data scientists and economists.

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