Matt Vanhouten

Senior Director – Visa Direct Strategy and Innovation Visa

Matt Vanhouten leads Visa Direct Platform Strategy and Innovation at Visa, a global payments technology company that connects consumers, businesses, financial institutions and governments in more than 200 countries and territories, enabling them to use digital currency instead of cash and checks.  Visa Direct is Visa’s push payments solution to support real time P2P payments and disbursements. Visa believes the global opportunity for real time push payments is $80 trillion in annual payments volume – with an excess of 85% of this fulfilled through checks, cash or other slow forms of payment.  Financial institutions, payments providers and technology companies are leveraging Visa Direct to transform the way money is moved by consumers and businesses.

Prior to Visa, Matt led product development for payments and fintech platforms at Wells Fargo, Sipree and J.P. Morgan