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AP International appoints Daisy Veerasingham as sales director
MUMBAI: Associated Press, the international news agency is expanding its business outside the United States.
The agency has announced the appointment of Daisy Veerasingham as its new International sales director.
Announcing the appointment, AP International Global Business vice president Ian Ritchie said: “The raison d’?tre for the creation of AP International is to expand our global sales for all AP products. Daisy is the right person to drive that objective and I am delighted that she is on board.”
Daisy will be responsible for all revenue generated within API, including text, photos, video and digital new media income, says a company release.
Prior to her appointment, Veerasingham was the group sales director at Lexis Nexis Butterworth Tolley and managing director at Lexis Nexis Europe. She also worked at the Financial Times and in her last position was sales and marketing director for FT Information, adds the release.
Says Veerasingham, “I am delighted to have joined the Associated Press at such a key time, with the creation of API and its commitment to becoming the essential global news provider.”
MUMBAI: In India’s fast-moving payments race, Visa has just swiped in a new leader. The company has named Suresh Sethi as its India country head, marking a key leadership shift as it sharpens its focus on digital payments growth in the market. Sethi steps into the role following his recent exit from Protean eGov Technologies, where he served as chief executive officer. He succeeds Sandeep Ghosh, who has moved on after more than four years at Visa to pursue an external opportunity.
The appointment comes at a time when Visa is doubling down on its expansion strategy across India and the wider region, deepening partnerships and accelerating adoption in an increasingly competitive digital payments ecosystem.
Sethi brings with him a broad, cross-market perspective shaped by decades of experience across corporate banking, retail financial services, mobile money and large-scale government technology initiatives. He began his career at Citigroup, where he spent 14 years working across India, Africa, South America and the United States, focusing on transaction banking services within the corporate bank.
His appointment signals a blend of institutional experience and market familiarity qualities that could prove critical as Visa navigates a landscape where fintech innovation, regulatory evolution and consumer adoption are all accelerating at once.
As digital payments in India continue to scale rapidly, the leadership change underscores a simple reality, in a market where every tap, scan and swipe counts, who leads the charge can matter just as much as the technology itself.
