{"id":23749,"date":"2025-05-07T16:27:01","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T13:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/visa-invests-in-london-based-payment-startup-bvnk\/"},"modified":"2025-05-07T16:27:01","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T13:27:01","slug":"visa-invests-in-london-based-payment-startup-bvnk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/visa-invests-in-london-based-payment-startup-bvnk\/","title":{"rendered":"Visa Invests in London-Based Payment Startup BVNK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Visa has invested in the British startup BVNK, which is developing infrastructure for stablecoin transactions. This was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bvnk.com\/blog\/visa-invests-in-bvnk\">announced<\/a> by BVNK&#8217;s CEO, Jesse Hemson-Struthers.<\/p>\n<p>The startup processes $12 billion in stablecoin transactions annually. The platform has opened offices in New York and San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, BVNK <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bvnk.com\/blog\/series-b-fuel-next-era-of-stablecoin-payments\">applied<\/a> for licenses in all U.S. states, receiving approval in several.<\/p>\n<p>Hemson-Struthers noted that integrating Visa&#8217;s payment network with stablecoins &#8220;opens new opportunities for the digital economy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>&#8220;Stablecoins are becoming part of global payments, and Visa intends to remain at the forefront of these changes,&#8221; said Rubail Birwadker, a company representative.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The size of the deal has not been disclosed. BVNK confirmed its completion but did not provide details.<\/p>\n<p>According to the FT, global banks and fintech companies <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/global-banks-and-fintech-firms-enter-the-stablecoin-race\">have entered<\/a> a &#8220;stablecoin race.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Visa has invested in the British startup BVNK, which is developing infrastructure for stablecoin transactions. This was announced by BVNK&#8217;s CEO, Jesse Hemson-Struthers. The startup processes $12 billion in stablecoin transactions annually. The platform has opened offices in New York and San Francisco. Previously, BVNK applied for licenses in all U.S. states, receiving approval in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23748,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[52,807,157],"class_list":["post-23749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-investments","tag-stablecoins","tag-visa"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"94","promo_type":"","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}