Alan Koenigsberg news and trends

Visa’s Koenigsberg Says Small Businesses Are Ready to Embrace BNPL
Buy Now Pay Later // August 19, 2024

In the global view, small businesses aren’t so small. They represent 90% of all businesses and more than 50% of employment globally. And in emerging markets, they are contributing 40% of GDP. Those stats from the World Bank underscore the need for these smaller companies...

Visa Sees Embedded Finance as Key to B2B Commerce Evolution
VISA // July 18, 2024

As businesses of all sizes across a multitude of verticals seek more efficient ways to manage payments and working capital, embedded finance is emerging as a transformative force in B2B commerce. That’s the view of Alan Koenigsberg, senior vice president and global head of large,...

Meet the 2006 Payments Startup That Took ACH Payments Global
Cross-border Payments // May 01, 2024

Cross-border payments circa May 2024 have become a highly specialized sector of the payments industry. Look at the activity in this space, even year-to-date, and you’ll see companies like the Solana Foundation advancing real-world assets on cross-border blockchains. You’ll see Swift continuing to accelerate the usage of the ISO 20022 messaging format. And...

Why Visa Is Talking About a Working Capital Network
Payments Innovation // November 13, 2023

Alan Koenigsberg, senior vice president and global head of large, middle market, treasury and working capital solutions at Visa, took note of the rapid shifts in payments and finance during an interview with Karen Webster. “If you feel a bit breathless, I think the whole...

Interviews & Exclusives
Why Visa Is Talking About a Working Capital Network

November 13, 2023
Alan Koenigsberg, senior vice president and global head of large, middle market, treasury and working capital solutions at Visa, took note of the rapid shifts in payments and finance during an interview with Karen Webster. “If you feel a bit breathless, I think the whole industry does, too, in terms of the rates of change […]

Visa’s Koenigsberg: Growth Corporates Suffer From ‘Broken Capital’ in Search of Liquidity

September 15, 2023
Growth corporates — companies with $50 million to as much as $1 billion in revenues — drive economies forward. They’re the firms innovating, hiring and scaling. Eventually, they’re the companies...

As Supply Chain and Logistics Crisis Wanes, Digital Revolution Takes a Bow

October 27, 2022
Trade finance’s digital transformation has exploded through the past few years, and it will accelerate in the years ahead. “Treasury is the next frontier in digital payments,” Alan Koenigsberg, senior...