Europe visa appoints new person in charge of Commercial Solutions and Cards of Company
28 of June 2006 MadridLight Janssen has been named new person in charge of the area of Commercial Solutions and Cards for Company Europe Visa. Janssen is gotten up to Europe Visa with an ample experience in the financial sector, having carried out several positions of responsibility in diverse companies of the banking sector and cards of payment.
Before getting up itself to Europe Visa, it carried out the position of top person in charge of product sales of MasterCard Europe with soothes in Brussels. Previously it worked many years for banks like ANHYP Bank (at the moment AXA Bank), Citibank (Belgium) and Bank WAX (at the moment KBC Bank).
Jon Prideaux, person in charge of Marketing Europe Visa, indicates “we are enchanted to give to the welcome to Light to the equipment Visa. With more than 20 years of experience in bank in the marketing areas and sales in Pan-European and American multinational companies, Light contributes to a knowledge in depth of the business of cards and the systems of payment�.
Janssen, that replaces in the position Gabriele Cappelletti, will be in charge to as much develop to the European supply of products Visa for companies of the public sector as prevailed. It will supervise the expansion of this part of the business in the 34 countries that comprise of Europe Visa.
It sights Commercial
The cards Commercial Visa facilitate that companies and companies of the public sector can realize their habitual payments of business, trips or expenses of representation, besides controlling their costs and the box flow. Commercial solutions exist Visa for all the types of company. Visa Business or Visa Company, especially thought for the small and medians companies; Corporate visa for the great corporations; Multinational visa for the needs of the multinational companies; and Purchasing Visa for the companies, organisms and public institutionsVisa also offers a great variety of solutions for the management of information in the companies, between which Visa Information Source is included (VIS), a tool online that allows to generate information on expenses and aid to secure one more a more efficient administration.
Europe visa counts with 6.8 million cards of company in circulation in Europe and more than 800,000 in Spain. In 2005 they were carried out in Europe more than 368 million transactions with these cards that generated a cost total of 46,600 million Euros, a 23.8% more than in the previous exercise. In Spain the number of transactions almost reached 48 million and the total cost with company cards ascended to 4,700 million Euros, a 13.6% more than in 2004.
The cards of Visa company received the prize to the best Card product for companies in past edition 2005 of the European Cards and Payments Awards.
On Visa
In Europe it has more than 302 million cards Visa of credit, debit and of companies. In the 12 months until December end of 2005 those cards they were used to realize distant purchases and of cash by a total volume of more than 1.13 trillions of Euros. Visa is one of the payment marks leaders in the world with more than 1,400 million cards that generate a volume of sales superior to 3.24 trillions of Euros (almost 4.02 trillions of dollars) annual. Visa has a level of matchless acceptance that includes 24 million acceptance points which they include near a million automatic tellers. Visa is an innovating association that a fundamental paper in the world-wide industry of payment means carries out, developing products and technologies that benefit so much to their 21,000 financial organizations member, as to its holders. For more information it visits www.visaeurope.com/esEurope visa includes: Germany; Andorra; Austria; Belgium; Cyprus; Denmark; Slovenia; Slovakia; Spain; Estonia; Finland; France; Gibraltar; Greece; Greenland; Hungary; Iceland; Ireland; Israel; Italy; Latvia; Lithuania; Liechtenstein; Luxembourg; Malta; Norway; The Netherlands; Poland; Portugal; Czech Republic Sweden; Switzerland; Turkey; UK.

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