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Taking Netting to the Nth Degree: Visa

By Staff Writer | Updated on November 01, 2011
Michael Donnelly, senior business leader and head of global treasury settlement; Kathrina Novak, senior business leader; Joyce Mueller, business leader; and Richard Laiderman, treasurer

Visa operates a massive wholesale funds transfer settlement network—making and receiving over 2,000 payments daily from the financial institutions that issue its cards and pay merchants. Total settlements top $3 trillion annually, so the benefits of netting those payments and making or collecting just one payment daily for each financial institution (FI) would be huge. But netting had long been impossible because FIs weren’t making or collecting one payment but thousands of discrete payments that had to be tied to separate business units or purposes. The source or destination of payments had to be identified or it would disrupt efficient processing by the FIs.

Visa treasury solved the netting challenge in 2010 by writing an application that allows it to consolidate payments to and from some of its large FI customers without impacting their operations, explains Richard Laiderman, Visa’s treasurer. Consolidated net payments now include the amount, direction of transfer and payment address for every individual client business unit transaction. The difference is that after netting, these multiple payments are no longer with Visa but are executed internally by the client FI with information supplied by Visa.

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