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Nkebet Mesele, Snr Director, Solutions Management, Sub-Saharan Africa at Visa, breaks down Visa QR - their payment product where your camera scans a QR code to pay.We explore how it evolved to break down the barriers to commerce for businesses across Africa.In this episode, we talk about01:52 - Nkebet's journey from telecoms to banking to payments03:22 - Exploring Visa's key offline products for Africa04:58 - How Visa QR came to be06:40 - Visa QR versus POS07:40 - Exploring merchant adoption of Visa QR08:37 - Understanding how QR payments work16:46 - Visa's marketing strategies for winning new markets20.00 - [Paystack Merchant Alert] Introducing Branch paystack.com/branch20:53 - The most surprising insight Nkebet gained launching Visa QR22:56 - The future of Visa QR in Nigeria27:15 - The most important questionFollow UsThe Decode Fintech Newsletter is a weekly email summary of the most important news in African fintech. Subscribe to receive original commentary and curated stories, as well as the latest episode of the podcast.Subscribe to the Decode Fintech NewsletterFollow Decode Fintech on TwitterDecode Fintech is brought to you by PaystackPaystack helps Africa's most successful fintechs build powerful and scalable financial service products with the industry's best-documented APIs. Please visit paystack.com/fintech to find out more.