When money needs to move now: Nuvei and Visa Direct power real-time¹ payments worldwide

When you think about the strongest relationships in your life, a few things may come to mind: trust built over time, a shared sense of purpose, and the flexibility to grow together through change. Successful business relationships work in similar ways.

Nuvei and Visa Direct are a clear example of this. Together, Visa Direct and Nuvei help customers solve complex global payments challenges through technology and the strength of their relationship.

The collaboration between Nuvei and Visa Direct has grown and flourished by consistently putting the customer at the center of every decision. It’s a truly symbiotic relationship; one that has enabled Visa Direct to unlock new payment methods and use cases for Nuvei’s customers and helped Nuvei bring Visa Direct to new countries and territories. The result is meaningful, real-world impact: businesses and merchants around the world benefiting from simpler, real-time¹ cross-border pay ins and payouts.

A relationship that built card-based payouts in Europe

Strong relationships start with a shared problem to solve. For businesses and their customers, slow and inconvenient fund transfers have long been a source of frustration. Payouts could take days, limiting business growth and damaging customer experiences. At the same time, access to efficient cross-border payouts remained limited.

Nuvei’s merchants faced growing complexity:

• Managing multiple acquirers and payment service providers across countries and territories was costly, with lower authorization rates and complex reconciliation.
• Cross-border payments across traditional banks were slow, unpredictable, and opaque, often taking days.
• Merchants lacked the same experience of domestic real time payments – (real-time payouts, predictability, security, and global reach) through a single integration.

To address this, Nuvei turned to Visa Direct to support its global expansion and deliver real-time cross-border payout capabilities. Visa Direct provided the global reach, network access and infrastructure needed to help Nuvei scale efficiently.

Nuvei identified clear growth opportunities:

• Their merchants were increasingly ready to scale globally.
• Rapid growth was occurring in sectors such as gaming, travel refunds, remittances, and the gig economy.
• Demand for real-time experiences and reliable cross-border money movement was rising.

These shared challenges, and shared ambitions made Visa Direct a natural strategic fit.

A customer-first relationship

Since 2022, the relationship between Nuvei and Visa Direct has been anchored in a simple principle: make it easier, faster, and safer for customers to move money across borders.

The collaboration first started in Europe. Nuvei’s Europe-based merchants wanted faster, more reliable, and more secure payout options. Meeting that need required more than a vendor relationship, it required true collaboration.

Together, Nuvei and Visa Direct modernized the payout experience across Europe, enabling card-based payouts for merchants that delivered greater speed, transparency, and reliability. By working closely together, the two companies enabled real-time¹ cross-border payouts while unlocking new merchant and geographic opportunities for each other. Today, merchants Europe-wide can benefit from having Visa Direct and Nuvei working side by side as part of their payment's ecosystem. And as with any strong relationship, growth didn’t stop there…

Nuvei and Visa Direct: delivering measurable impact

The result of this collaboration is fast, reliable access to money, built on trust and long-term collaboration. Together, Nuvei and Visa Direct continue to expand globally, helping add value for merchants and end consumers alike.

Expanding into new regions together

In Colombia, a country with one of Latin America’s fastest-growing ecommerce industry, Nuvei saw an opportunity to help local merchants offer fast, real-time¹ digital payouts to cards - a capability that wasn’t previously available.

Building on their trusted collaboration already proven in Europe and North America, extending Visa Direct to Colombia was a natural next step. By working closely together, Nuvei and Visa Direct enabled reliable card payouts for Colombian merchants. What’s more, Nuvei became the first global payments provider to offer Visa Direct in the region.

Now, Colombia-based ecommerce businesses can access Visa Direct through their existing single integration with Nuvei’s modular payments platform. This means they can accept card payments without relying on intermediaries or third-party processors: simplifying operations and improving the customer experience.

Launching Visa Direct for Account: a milestone built on trust

Building on the success of Visa Direct for Card and their relationship, in November of 2025, Nuvei became one of the first global acquirers to enable Visa Direct for Account.

Nuvei chose Visa Direct after evaluating multiple options, with the strength of the existing relationship playing a key role in the final decision. Equally important was access to the Visa Direct network, the world’s largest money movement network² operating at scale.

As Phil Fayer, Chair and CEO of Nuvei, explains, “Consumers everywhere expect instant access to their money, whether it’s a payout, refund, or remittance. By expanding our Visa Direct offering, we’re helping merchants deliver faster, more convenient, and more reliable payouts that improve everyday financial experiences.”

Nuvei’s mission is to give clients choice and confidence in how they pay and get paid. By adding Visa Direct for Account to its global payments platform, merchants can now send funds directly to consumers’ and workers’ bank accounts. This capability complements Visa Direct for Card, supporting use cases such as insurance claims, payroll, and government disbursements.

With a single integration, merchants can offer account-based payouts in multiple currencies, improving cash flow, customer satisfaction, and operational efficiency.

As Vira Platonova, Global Head of Visa Direct, notes, “Meaningful progress in payouts comes from ecosystem collaboration. Expanding our integration with Nuvei’s platform allows us to help more businesses reach payees with solutions built for scale, compliance, and operational simplicity.”

Looking ahead, growing together

The next phase of the relationship focuses on expanding Visa Direct for Account worldwide, enabling direct-to-bank payouts across continents. By the end of 2026, Nuvei aims to support this capability across all eligible regions, continuing to innovate side by side with Visa Direct.

A strong relationship built on trust, shared values, and a commitment to customers - that’s what powers the collaboration between Nuvei and Visa Direct.