ET Word Leaders Forum: Visa’s Kelly Mahon Tullier talks on India's women entrepreneurs, financial innovation
Visa is focusing on leading the digital economy with more women entrepreneurs, said Kelly Mahon Tullier, Vice Chair and Chair People and Corporate Affairs Officer at Visa. She was speaking at the Economic Times World Leader Forum being held in New Delhi on Saturday.
«The purpose of Visa (company) is to uplift the world by engaging them in the digital economy...Visa is so much more than a credit card,» she said in the session called The New Paradigm of Payments, chaired by Arijit Barman, Associate Editor, The Economic Times.
Tullier also spoke on Visa's work with uplifting women in India in collaboration with United Way of Mumbai.
«We together provide training and the tools to bring women entrepreneurs into the digital economy and be able to facilitate their businesses,» she said. She noted that the partnership has helped over 10,000 women since its inception recently. «They enter the workforce, they earn money, real revenue and then they start to hire other women in their businesses...they make sure they build the communities together.»
India's financial innovation, inclusion
She further said that the financial innovation that has happened in India, including UPI is incredible.
«Payments are all about innovation...the QR code is amazing technology, amazing developments,' she said.
»Financial inclusion is amazing in this country...it is so important to economic growth for the individual and for the country. But there is a journey beyond that. Once you get them into digital commerce, then you want to
