Visa Inc., owner of VisaNet, the largest payment card network in the world based on merchant acceptance locations, has spent several years building Visa Direct, a capability within VisaNet for delivering funds transfers including remittances, payouts to independent contractors and other use cases for consumers and small businesses. Visa Direct recently added 1.5 billion endpoints through a partnership with Thunes. This raises the number of endpoints to the 7.0-billion range, including nearly 3.0 billion Visa brand cards, more than 2.0 billion bank accounts, and the 1.5 billion mobile wallet...