VP, Head of Cross Border Money Movement
Visa Inc.
Rich Meszaros is Head of Cross Border Money Movement at Visa Direct, leading the commercialization strategy and business growth for NA Visa Direct. Visa Direct provides a mature infrastructure for real-time money movement across 200+ countries & territories, 160+ currencies, and 12 billion endpoints.
Rich brings over 20 years of industry experience in building and growing digital businesses for global brands, and has held leadership roles at Accenture, MoneyGram International and US Bank. He is a forerunner in creating innovative products, leveraging IoT, digital payments and tokenized assets with a focus on designing, enabling and optimizing new commerce models.
Rich holds an MBA from the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota, a B.S. from Marquette University in Economics and Finance and is a graduate of the Consumer Bankers Association Graduate School of Retail Bank Management.
Real-time payments are expected to generate $173 billion in additional economic output this year, according to the Center for Economic and Business Research. Cross-border payments are entering their “real-time era”—and in 2026 the biggest opportunity for banks is to evolve from slow, fee-driven intermediaries into 24/7 liquidity, settlement, and compliance hubs. This panel explores how banks can capture new revenue and deepen client relationships by delivering instant cross-border settlement, richer data, and embedded treasury capabilities—while maintaining trust, control, and regulatory-grade risk management.
The panelists will debate where banks can lead versus where they will be disintermediated, and which technologies will determine who wins the next generation of global payments. Key to this: Interoperability infrastructure—the combination of ISO 20022 + APIs + real-time compliance automation, increasingly paired with tokenized settlement rails, including stablecoins and blockchain-based networks. The discussion will include: