More ways to pay

WE SHOP, tap and go, and we don't think twice about it. Marie Kondo may have something to say about all that easy consumerism, but spending on plastic is a way of life for many shoppers in bustling cities.

Behind that spending are the pipes built by Visa, the sprawling payments networks giant that allows funds to be pumped across borders, its platform taking in as many as 65,000 transactions per second.

But the payments giant is not resting easy on its global network, and frankly, can't quite do so today.