---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001403161-24-000005"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "V"
cik: "0001403161"
company_name: "VISA INC."
filed_at: "2024-01-24T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-06T19:10:37.999446+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Visa shareholders approve charter amendment to allow exchange offers unlocking Class B stock

## Summary
- All 11 director nominees elected with strong majority (>97% for each).
- Say-on-pay approved with 89.92% of Class A votes for.
- Proposal 4 (Class B exchange offer program) approved with >79% combined class vote.
- KPMG ratified as independent auditor for FY2024 with 97.66% support.
- Stockholder proposal on termination pay rejected with 92.53% against.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001403161-24-000005
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: V
- cik: 0001403161
- company_name: VISA INC.
- filed_at: 2024-01-24T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 5.07, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1403161/000140316124000005/0001403161-24-000005-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1403161/000140316124000005/v-20240123.htm

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## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  VISA INC.: Stockholders approved amendments to the Certificate of Incorporation to authorize exchange offers releasing transfer restrictions on Class B common stock, filed and effective on January 24, 2024 (effective 2024-01-24).
  - Change: charter amendment
  - Effective: 2024-01-24
  source text: the Company filed a Certificate of Amendment to the Certificate (the “Certificate of Amendment”) incorporating such amendments with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware on January 24, 2024. The Certificate of Amendment became effective upon filing.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1403161/000140316124000005/0001403161-24-000005-index.htm

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