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Lumanu and Visa join forces to fix broken creator payments
Lumanu, the payments and compliance platform for the global creative economy, today announced a new collaboration with Visa, a world leader in digital payments, to enable fast, secure payments to creators and contractors in more than 195 countries and territories.
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