Visa CEO Recognizes Real Potential in Stablecoins and Cryptocurrencies

In a question and answer session at the JP Morgan Annual Tech Conference, the head of Visa admitted that cryptocurrencies are complementary to its current payment systems — not competitive.

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JP Morgan analyst Tien-Tsin Huang asked Visa about the corporation’s general strategy in regards to digital currencies and stablecoins.

Visa CEO Alfred F. Kelly responded saying that digital currency backed by fiat is a very real potential emerging payment technology.

More interestingly, however, he went on to state;

We actually think that digital currencies could be additive to the payments ecosystem as opposed to being any kind of replacement or negative.

Kelly added that Visa currently deals in 160 different currencies around the world, and there is no reason why cryptocurrencies could not be taken on as part of that.

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