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Kenya: Visa opens first Africa innovation hub in Nairobi

By Morris Kiruga

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Posted on April 11, 2022 08:17

Credit card is seen in front of displayed Visa logo in this illustration
Credit card is seen in front of displayed Visa logo in this illustration taken, July 15, 2021. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration

Global digital payments firm Visa has opened an innovation studio in Kenya with the aim to accelerate technological innovation in certain subregions.

The innovation studios are designed to give Visa’s partners and co-creators a direct way to develop using Visa’s APIs and SDKs, and to allow for real-time experimentation as well as rapid prototyping.

The new hub in Nairobi contains rooms dedicated to the specific subregions of Sub-Saharan Africa. It is Visa’s sixth such innovation hub globally, following others the firm has opened in San Francisco, Singapore, London, Miami, and Dubai since 2016.

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