Powering financial inclusion

Greater financial knowledge and skills help to open doors for individuals, entrepreneurs and communities around the world.  At Visa, we understand the power of financial inclusion in creating opportunities. Financial inclusion is at the heart of what we do – it’s aligned with our purpose of uplifting everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid. We're empowering people from all walks of life with the financial resources and skills they need to help them take their next step. 

We are committed to helping our communities build digital and money management skills, empowering small businesses, enabling people to carve out entrepreneurial paths, and providing tools for individuals to build skills for sustainable living and wellbeing. From supporting younger generations, women, entrepreneurs and displaced people, we’re on a mission to create positive social and lasting change that benefit people and do more for our planet.

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What we're doing across Europe

For nearly two decades, Visa has been developing financial inclusion programmes to support communities across the globe. Our programmes and our work with local partners in Europe is helping people from a wide range of backgrounds to build skills for lasting change: from budgeting and saving, digital and entrepreneurial skills, to sustainable living and wellbeing.

Practical Money Skills

The Practical Money Skills website offers interactive resources for people of all ages to better understand the concept of money management and how to manage their finances.

Visit the Practical Money Skills website

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Enabling smaller steps to empower ahead

We're committed to building skills in communities across Europe

33 %

of European households are unable to meet unexpected financial shocks¹

57.6 m

SMBs in Europe with a wide range of support and education needs²

12.4 m

forcibly-displaced people in Europe needing access to money and services³

Latest initiatives and updates

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Building entrepreneurial and financial inclusion skills

During Global Money Week, Visa and HSBC worked in partnership to teach London schoolchildren about the building blocks of money management and entrepreneurship.

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It’s crucial that future generations from all backgrounds feel empowered to develop positive financial behaviours.
Mandy Lamb, Managing Director, UK & Ireland, Visa

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