Foreign Exchange Rates
Get Visa's latest Foreign Exchange Rates instantly.
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- Asia-Pacific
- Europe
- CEMEA
- LAC
FEES & Terms
Free to use in Sandbox. Contact for Production fees. Product terms located at end of the page.
Better user experience for cross-border and/or multicurrency transactions
Visa provides daily FX rates for the 180+ global currencies that are used within VisaNet to authorize and settle transactions. The current list of supported currencies with their alphabetic and numeric ISO codes and their minor decimal places (for displaying amounts) can be found on the Request and Response Code Reference..
The Enhanced FX API provides Visa rates for global currencies and its comparison with benchmark rates like ECB. Visa rates are made available for the past 365 days for currencies listed here. Benchmark rates are made available for the past 365 days for currencies listed here.
The Foreign Exchange Rates API and Enhanced Foreign Exchange API are available for use by any developer in sandbox and production. However, Visa retains the right to review your project implementation of this API prior to production on-boarding to ensure appropriate use of its features.
Key Features
Be up-to-date on daily currency conversion rate.
Provide a better user experience for multicurrency transactions.
Provide transparency to users through comparison of the Visa rates to the benchmark rates like ECB.
Why Use It?
Better Payment Experience in Cross-Border and Multi-currency Transactions
The customer can be well informed of the daily curency conversion rate and how it compares to benchmark rates like the European Central Bank (ECB) rates.
How Does It Work?
Foreign Exchange Rates accepts a source and destination currency pair and returns the current day’s Visa exchange rate for the pair. It can also take a transaction amount in the source currency and return the same amount in the destination currency, with or without an optional FX rate markup.
The Enhanced Foreign Exchange API accepts a "from" currency and amount (transaction currency and amount), "to" currency and amount (cardholder billing currency), bank specific fee and asOfDate. The API returns the "to" amount with Visa rates and benchmark rates (if applicable to the currency pair) as well as markup between the Visa and benchmark rates. Last available rates that were effective on the asOfDate are returned. If asOfDate is not provided, API returns that last effective benchmark and Visa rates.
APIs Included
Foreign Exchange Rates API
The Foreign Exchange Rates API provides easy access to the Visa daily currency conversion rate for a given currency pair.
Enhanced Foreign Exchange Rate API
The Enhanced Foreign Exchange Rates API provides access to last 365 days Visa and benchmark FX rates (if applicable) for a currency pair as available on the as of date.
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