Carleligh Jaques

Corporate Development and M&A group, Visa, Inc.

How Consumers Will Pay in the Future
11 minutes, 5.2mb, recorded 2011-10-11
Carleligh Jaques

Carleligh Jaques of Visa, Inc., speaks at the Web 2.0 Expo 2011 about how consumers will pay for services and merchandise in the future. She explains how the rapidly growing e-commerce and mobile commerce sectors will force expansion of programs such as the digital wallet. Ms. Jaques also examines how the implementation of the digital wallet will affect consumers, merchants and financial institutions.

Ms. Jaques discusses the importance of implementing electronic forms of currency in a safe and seamless manner across different environments and platforms. She demonstrates how a user might enroll in a digital wallet program and the challenges of improving acceptance from merchants as more consumers demand digital wallet implementation. Also included is a discussion on the importance of ensuring a reliable and consistent experience for both consumers and merchants alike.

 


Carleligh Jaques is responsible for Visa Inc.’s global corporate development and mergers and acquisitions activities.  The Corporate Development and M&A group leads Visa’s engagement in a range of transactions from strategic investments through joint ventures and acquisitions.  Since founding the group, Ms. Jaques has led Visa’s $2 billion acquisition of CyberSource in the ecommerce segment and its acquisition of PlaySpan in the digital commerce space, as well as the company’s two joint ventures in India.  In addition, she led the formation of the Syncada joint venture in the commercial payments space as well as the divestiture of key business stakes in Brazil with aggregate value in excess of $1 billion.  Ms. Jaques is an active speaker at industry and educational forums including the Thomson Reuters Western M&A conference and at the Stanford Law School.

Prior to joining Visa, Ms. Jaques spent 17 years in investment banking, the last 12 of which were at Deutsche Bank in the firm’s technology mergers and acquisitions practice where she was a Managing Director.  During her tenure in investment banking, Ms. Jaques advised clients on a range of transactions including acquisitions, asset purchases, cross-border deals, divestitures, joint ventures, leveraged buyouts, mergers of equals, recaps, and equity and debt issuances.

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