By MATT PIKE
St. Joseph Post
Commerce Bank is partnering with Visa to help get small businesses ready for the upcoming FIFA World Cup and a massive influx of visitors.
St. Joseph Commerce Bank President Brendon Clark says with over 650-thousand visitors expected to the area, the World Cup presents a great opportunity for small businesses
“We feel small businesses are the backbone of a thriving economy and we’ve been partnering and working with Visa to come up with some resources to help prepare them for the World Cup event this summer,” Clark tells KFEQ/St. Joseph Post. “We want everybody to have all the tools and resources they need to take advantage of this opportunity.”
Commerce Bank and Visa have released a list of six topics including fraud mitigation and cyber security and contactless and mobile payments among others, to help small businesses
Clark says this program is vital for small businesses because not everyone coming for the World Cup may be familiar with payment standards and practices here.
“We want everybody to be prepared so they can take advantage of this and not miss out on opportunities with systems that are not capable or misunderstandings of how our international guests might perceive things,” Clark explains.
Other topics covered through the program include alternative forms of payment and language accessibility, and cultural awareness.
Clark says some of the key takeaway’s businesses might focus on in the program are contactless and mobile payments
“Making sure that each business is kind of evaluating their current set up and taking advantage of the time to get themselves prepared for that,” Clark says. “Really I would advise anybody to go to the website, it’s commercebank.com/soccer26 , all of the information is there including a real easy to follow checklist that businesses can download and start looking at to help get themselves prepared.”
Around 650 thousand people are expected to come to the Kansas City area for the World Cup games which begin in June
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