Visa and Aire agree fintech partner programme

Aire has been selected to join Visa’s Fintech Partner Connect programme which enables clients to access the next generation of digital payment experiences.

Aire’s involvement in the programme, which was launched today, will help to connect Visa’s financial services clients across Europe to Aire’s first-party data, information gathered directly from the consumer, to help inform their credit decisioning and scoring processes.

Operating across the customer lifecycle, Aire enables lenders to make more accurate credit risk and affordability assessments about their customers and optimise decision-making using validated information provided by the consumer with consent.

Aneesh Varma, Founder and CEO of Aire, said “We’re delighted to be partnering with Visa, further enabling us to take the benefits of first-party data, and the fairer access to credit it provides, mainstream. As a world-leading consumer brand, today’s initiative highlights Visa’s commitment to champion innovative technology solutions that benefit the individual – and we look forward to working alongside them to do that at scale in the months to come.”