Glob­al leader in dig­i­tal pay­ments, Visa has an­nounced a ma­jor lead­er­ship shift in its Caribbean op­er­a­tions, nam­ing Jorge Salum as vice-pres­i­dent and coun­try man­ag­er for Greater Caribbean Mar­kets, a new­ly-cre­at­ed role aimed at strength­en­ing the com­pa­ny’s re­gion­al foot­print as dig­i­tal pay­ments ac­cel­er­ate.

In its state­ment yes­ter­day, Visa ex­plained the ap­point­ment forms part of a broad­er re­struc­tur­ing that com­bines its north­ern and south­ern Caribbean op­er­a­tions in­to a sin­gle, ex­pand­ed busi­ness unit cov­er­ing 22 mar­kets across the re­gion.

Salum, who most re­cent­ly served as coun­try man­ag­er for the South­ern Caribbean, would now over­see mar­kets span­ning T&T, the East­ern Caribbean, Guyana, Suri­name and sev­er­al ter­ri­to­ries in the north, ex­clud­ing Puer­to Ri­co and the Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic.