Thredd, a next-generation global payments processor, has signed a landmark agreement to enable Visa Cloud Connect on a worldwide scale. This strategic move underscores Thredd's significant investment in cloud-first infrastructure and its commitment to advancing global payments technology. The agreement will allow Thredd's clients—fintechs, digital banks, and embedded finance providers—to gain faster, more resilient access to Visa's network through a unified, cloud-native platform, simplifying international expansion and enhancing scalability.
Thredd signs a global agreement to enable Visa Cloud Connect.
The move provides clients with cloud-native access to Visa's payment network.
It eliminates the need for multiple regional integrations with Visa.
The goal is to deliver increased flexibility and faster time-to-market.
This supports Thredd's vision of a single, cloud-first global processing platform.
It represents a major step in Thredd's ongoing cloud transformation strategy.
Visa Cloud Connect allows organizations to access VisaNet, Visa's global payments network, directly through their own cloud-based infrastructure. Purpose-built for cloud-native clients, this connectivity is designed to deliver increased flexibility, seamless scalability across borders, and a faster time to market for new payment programs and services.
Under the agreement, Thredd will connect across three global Visa Cloud Connect endpoints, committing to a full global rollout. This approach is a key milestone in Thredd's strategy to provide a single, unified global processing platform. Once live, it will remove the complexity of managing multiple regional integrations, thereby accelerating the process for clients to enter new geographies and scale their operations efficiently.
This initiative is central to Thredd's mission of providing clients with agile, scalable, and future-ready payments infrastructure. By leveraging a cloud-first approach, Thredd aims to offer superior speed, reliability, and simplified expansion capabilities, whether clients are launching new programs or scaling across international markets.
"Signing this agreement is about future-proofing payments infrastructure," said Jonathan Vaux, Head of Propositions and Partnerships at Thredd. "By committing to Visa Cloud Connect globally, we’re helping our clients gain faster, more resilient access to Visa’s network, while advancing our strategy to deliver a single, cloud-first global platform."
This global agreement with Visa represents a significant evolution in payments processing. By fully embracing cloud-native infrastructure, Thredd is strengthening its position as a technology leader and empowering the next generation of fintechs and financial institutions to innovate and grow with greater speed and resilience on a global stage.
About Thredd
Thredd is the trusted, AI-first, cloud-enabled issuer processing platform powering the next generation of global payments. Through a single API, unified platform, Thredd delivers debit, credit, digital wallet and ledger capabilities to over 100 fintech, digital banks and embedded finance providers, across 47 countries, processing billions of transactions annually. With a global operating footprint, local expertise, and AI integrated into every layer of its platform, Thredd has been purpose-built for speed, scale and modern issuance models, setting the standard for market entry, client experience, security, regulatory rigour and operational resilience.
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