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Official Press Release, Wednesday 13thAugust 2025, London:
Bluechain, the B2B payment orchestration platform powering the next generation of business payments, today announced a partnership with Visa to modernise how UK businesses manage B2B payments. This collaboration delivers real-time visibility, end-to-end control, and universal payment flexibility through Bluechain’s intelligent network.
The partnership introduces a critical infrastructure layer, enabling businesses to pay any supplier with Visa cards—even when suppliers don’t accept cards—while Bluechain handles billing, collection, reconciliation, and merchant-of-record requirements. The result is a smarter, faster B2B payments experience working directly with the tools businesses already use.
Tim Annis, Co-Founder and CEO of Bluechain says:
“We’re building the infrastructure layer that business payments have been missing”. “Visa shares our vision, not just digitising payments, but making them frictionless, visible, and intelligent. Together, we’re enabling businesses to take control of their working capital and reduce financial admin at scale.”
UK businesses manage over £2.8 trillion in annual B2B spend 1,much of it still routed through slow, manual, or siloed systems. Bluechain and Visa are enabling digital transformation across traditionally underserved verticals, including construction, freight, hospitality, and wholesale distribution, where card acceptance has historically been limited or non-existent.
Alessandro Figueroa, Head of B2B Partnerships, Visa Europe says:
“Businesses need smarter ways to manage payments, and data to make better decisions”.“Partnering with Bluechain brings those capabilities directly into workflows, helping businesses unlock new flexibility, visibility, and efficiency.”
With this partnership, Visa and Bluechain are redefining how businesses pay, get paid, and grow—bringing B2B payments into the same modern, connected world consumers already enjoy.
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About Bluechain
Bluechain is a platform that connects businesses for simple, efficient and secure B2B transactions. Built using Request to Pay principles and leveraging a patented security process, it is designed to deliver automation across the end-to-end of receivables and payables regardless of the systems or payment methods used.
We are a champion for making B2B payments better and easier for everyone and we believe that businesses deserve to be paid on time, while customers deserve to pay in a way that makes life easier for them. From reducing fraud to making reconciliations simpler, Bluechain is obsessive about making the end to end process of B2B payments smooth and straightforward for both sides.
For more information about Bluechain, please visit bluechain.com.
About Visa
Visa (NYSE: V) is a world leader in digital payments, facilitating transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institution sand government entities across more than 200 countries and territories. Our mission is to connect the world through the most innovative, convenient, reliable and secure payments network, enabling individuals, businesses and economies to thrive. We believe that economies that include everyone everywhere, uplift everyone everywhere and see access as foundational to the future of money movement. Learn more at Visa.com.
