Guest bio
- Senior Vice President and Group Country Manager for the GCC at Visa.
- A leader in the Gulf region's supercharged payments industry.
- Closely involved in Visa's work to empower small businesses and women.
Saeeda Jaffar is Senior Vice President and Group Country Manager for the GCC at Visa, and a leader in the region's supercharged payments industry. Her work covers the competition banks face from fintechs and big technology companies, how payments are evolving with crypto and AI, whether consumers now face too much choice, whether banks do enough to educate customers, and the trade-offs of credit card debt and rich rewards. At Visa she is closely involved in its work to empower small businesses and women.
Show notes
In this episode of Money Majlis, Suvo Sarkar is in conversation with Saeeda Jaffar, Senior Vice President & Group Country Manager – GCC for Visa, talking about the supercharged growth of the payments industry in the region. They explore what competition, if any, that banks can expect from fintechs and big-techs, how the industry is evolving with crypto and AI and what Visa is doing to empower SMEs and women.
Is there too much choice in payments today? Are banks doing enough for customer education? Is credit card debt a good thing or a bad thing? Do rich reward points for card transactions come at the expense of needy revolvers? Two industry leaders, Suvo Sarkar and Saeeda Jaffar, discuss these and may other topics in an interesting dialogue rich with facts, figures, insights and personal anecdotes.
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