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Visa and Partners Complete Secure AI Transactions, Setting the Stage for Mainstream Adoption in 2026

Visa

"Visa Inc. announced a major milestone in the evolution of AI-powered commerce: hundreds of secure, agent-initiated transactions have now been successfully completed in collaboration with partners across the ecosystem. This breakthrough signals that 2025 will be the final year consumers shop and checkout alone, as AI agent-driven payments rapidly transition from experimentation to mainstream adoption."

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Akamai and Visa Collaborate to Build Trust in Agentic Commerce

Visa

"Akamai Technologies, Inc. announced a strategic collaboration with Visa to bring stronger identity, user recognition, and security controls to the emerging world of agentic commerce. Through its integration of Visa’s Trusted Agent Protocol with Akamai’s edge-based behavioral intelligence, user recognition, and bot and abuse protection, the companies will deliver the identity, authentication, and fraud controls required to let merchants confidently welcome AI agents with commerce intent into their digital storefronts."

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Visa Launches Stablecoin Settlement in the United States, Marking a Breakthrough for Stablecoin Integration

Visa

"Visa Inc. announced the launch of USDC settlement in the United States, marking a major milestone in the company’s stablecoin settlement pilot program and strategy to modernize its settlement layer underpinning global commerce. For the first time, U.S. issuer and acquirer partners can settle with Visa in Circle’s USDC, a fully reserved, dollar-denominated stablecoin. Initial banking participants include Cross River Bank and Lead Bank, which have started settling with Visa in USDC over the Solana blockchain. Broader availability in the U.S. is planned through 2026."

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Visa Launches ‘Stablecoins Advisory Practice’ to Help Banks and Businesses Build Strategies

Visa

"Visa announced the launch of its Stablecoins Advisory Practice. The new value-added service offering by Visa Consulting & Analytics (VCA) provides actionable insights and recommendations to guide banks, fintechs, merchants, and businesses of all sizes on market fit, strategy, and implementation. As the stablecoin market cap surpasses $250 billion, Visa’s settlement volume has accelerated, reaching a $3.5 billion annualized run rate as of November 30. Businesses are turning to Visa’s new Stablecoins Advisory Practice to unlock growth opportunities."

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Circle Collaborates with Pismo and Visa to Launch Vietnam’s First AI-Powered PayLater Card

Visa

"Visa and Pismo today jointly announced a strategic collaboration with Circle Asia Technologies, a pioneering credit-led neobank in Southeast Asia, to unlock credit for millions in Vietnam. This will enable Circle to launch the nation’s first truly AI-powered PayLater card aiming to set new standards for transparency, personalization, and user experience in the financial industry. Scheduled for a phased rollout in early 2026, the card is being engineered to dismantle the barriers that have led to Vietnam’s low credit card penetration."

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Visa Survey Finds AI and Crypto Poised to Transform U.S. Holiday Spending

Business Wire

"Visa Inc. released new survey data, revealing AI’s influence in shopping and spending, a generational shift in consumer spending behavior, and emerging payments trends this holiday season. "The data tells a fascinating story about the spending shift we're witnessing: shoppers are embracing AI and digital tools at remarkable speed, with nearly half of Americans now using AI to enhance their shopping experience," said Bruce Cundiff, vice president, Consumer Insights at Visa."

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Visa and AWS Enable Next-Generation Agentic Commerce Capabilities

Amazon

"Visa and Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. announced a collaboration designed to empower developers and enterprises building towards agentic commerce. Visa will list the Visa Intelligence Commerce platform in AWS Marketplace, helping businesses and developers to connect seamlessly to a growing ecosystem of agentic commerce providers for next-generation reliable and secure payment experiences. AWS and Visa will also publish blueprints on the public Amazon Bedrock AgentCore repository designed for multi-network agentic retail shopping, travel booking, and payment reconciliation, enabling developers to create and connect complex workflows."

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Agentic Commerce: The Threat Landscape

Visa

"From markets, to malls, to mobile, shopping is continuously evolving. The next major shift is AI agents that can buy and sell on our behalf. Agentic commerce is poised to transform how we shop. AI-powered shopping agents promise faster, smarter transactions — but where innovation leads; fraud often follows – fast. Agentic artificial intelligence — autonomous systems capable of initiating, adapting, and executing complex tasks without human oversight — is rapidly reshaping the cyber threat landscape."

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Ahead of Holiday Season, Visa Identifies Five Transformative Forces Reshaping Global Payment Security

Visa

"To celebrate International Fraud Awareness Week, Visa released its Fall 2025 Biannual Threats Report, revealing five forces that are transforming the global payments security landscape. The report, produced by Visa's Payment Ecosystem Risk and Control (PERC) team, draws on intelligence from Visa's global network to identify how criminal operations are evolving with unprecedented speed, scale, and sophistication."

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First Visa A2A Transaction Completed in the UK with Partners Kroo Bank, Utilita and Tink

VIsa

"Visa announced that Kroo Bank, Utilita and Tink have successfully completed the first commercial variable recurring payment (cVRP) through its Visa A2A solution in the UK, marking a significant milestone in the evolution of account-to-account (A2A) payments. The transaction, made to demonstrate an energy bill being paid to Utilita, was enabled through the Visa A2A open industry model. This transaction, along with multiple subsequent transactions, showcases the readiness of the solution to upgrade the A2A payment experience, ahead of its rollout in the UK."

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Visa Direct Stablecoin Payouts Pilot Speeds Up Access to Funds for Creators & Gig Workers

Visa

"At Web Summit, Visa Inc. announced a breakthrough pilot allowing businesses and platforms to send payouts directly to recipients’ stablecoin wallets. For businesses using Visa Direct, payouts can be funded in fiat currency, while recipients can choose to receive their funds in USD-backed stablecoins like USDC, transforming the speed and accessibility of global payouts."

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Visa Unveils 2025 Creator Report; Introduces Creator Agent Pilot with Karat

Visa

"Visa is using the scale of its network to help creators easily and securely pay and get paid, access capital and grow their enterprises with the same tools and resources available to small businesses worldwide. Visa’s new creator-research, Monetized: Visa 2025 Creator Report is a comprehensive study of the creator economy spanning five regions. In tandem with the report, Visa introduced plans to explore a potential agentic pilot program with Karat Financial. Karat is a fintech leader in the creator space, providing credit cards and business banking tailored to creators."

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How Visa is Preparing for the Agentic Commerce Era

Retail TouchPoints

"In this episode of Retail Remix, host Nicole Silberstein sits down with Rob Cameron, Global Head of Acceptance Solutions at Visa, to explore how the rise of agentic AI, is shaping the future of commerce, and with it payments.  Rob shares how Visa is preparing for this shift with its Trusted Agent Protocol. This conversation dives deep into the payment infrastructure that will be required to enable this next era of ecommerce."

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Visa and Mastercard Near Settlement With Merchants, Would Lower Fees, WSJ Reports

Reuters-WSJ

"U.S. payment firms Visa and Mastercard nearing a settlement with merchants by lowering fees stores pay and giving them more power to reject certain credit cards, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday, citing people familiar with matter. Visa and Mastercard would trim interchange fees, typically 2% to 2.5% per transaction, by an average of about a tenth of a percentage point over several years, the Journal reported citing sources. The companies would also ease rules that currently require merchants accepting one network credit card type to accept all of them."

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Visa and Transcard Collaborate to Deliver Advanced Embedded Working Capital Solutions in Freight & Logistics

Visa

"Visa and Transcard announced the launch of a next-generation embedded finance platform, designed to power payments and working capital solutions in the freight and logistics industry. Visa and Transcard are also collaborating on agentic initiatives for the B2B segment. This alliance puts embedded credit and working capital solutions in the hands of freight forwarders and airline carriers on WebCargo by Freightos, a leading digital booking and payments platform in the freight industry."

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From Automation to Autonomy: How Agentic AI is Revolutionizing Payments

Visa

"Payments have evolved from the universal reliance on cash to cards, which brought enhanced security and convenience, and driving global card transactions to $3.12 trillion in 2025, or roughly 10% of global GDP. Agentic AI promises a transformative leap by enabling frictionless, autonomous payments. The retail and e-commerce Agentic AI market is projected to reach $175 billion by 2030, signaling a fundamental shift in how payments and AI interplay"

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Visa Unveils Key Partnerships and World-class Payment Innovations at Global Fintech Fest, 2025

ptinews

"Visa unveiled a range of cutting-edge solutions at the recently concluded Global Fintech Fest (GFF) 2025. Across the three days Visa made multiple announcements and product launches, highlighting their commitment to shaping the next chapter of digital payments in India, focusing on security, cross-border convenience, and the transformative potential of AI."

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Visa: Stablecoins Beyond Payments: The Onchain Lending Opportunity

Visa

"With the GENIUS Act now signed into law, financial institutions both domestically and globally are deepening their exploration of stablecoin products and technologies. Among the key questions we encounter daily are: “What are the use cases?” and “What capabilities do stablecoins offer that traditional fiat currencies cannot?” The natural starting point for this exploration is viewing stablecoins as a new payments infrastructure, evaluating their potential benefits — such as instant, 24/7 settlement — particularly in the context of cross-border payments and remittances."

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Visa Introduces Trusted Agent Protocol: An Ecosystem-Led Framework for AI Commerce

Visa

"Visa Inc. unveiled Trusted Agent Protocol, establishing a foundational framework for agentic commerce that enables secure communication between AI agents and merchants during every step of a transaction. Trusted Agent Protocol ushers in a new era where AI can search, compare and pay on behalf of consumers. With the release of this protocol – developed in collaboration with Cloudflare – Visa reinforces its commitment to supporting seamless interactions in the evolving ecosystem of intelligent payments."

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Visa, Mastercard Agree to $199.5 Million Settlement in Merchants’ Class Action

Reuters

"Visa and Mastercard have agreed to pay a combined $199.5 million to settle a nearly decade-old class action that accused them of forcing merchants to swallow some of the costs of fraudulent transactions involving counterfeit, lost, or stolen cards."

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Visa: Transforming Payments With Generative AI Technologies

Visa

"Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) is no longer just a futuristic concept. It is here, is becoming increasingly common, and is set to radically transform how we interact with technology in all areas. Payments is no exception. In this deep dive into What’s influencing payments in 2025: 10 recommendations on business strategy, Visa investigates GenAI, how it is shaking up payments, its economic impact, and what the future may hold for this revolutionary technology."

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Visa: American Mood Trend

Visa

"A top-of-mind issue impacting American consumers’ moods is the integration of generative AI solutions into their lives, and how that integration may continue to evolve. Generative AI is in the transition period from a niche technology to a mainstream tool, with more than one-fifth of consumers who use AI solutions now indicating they do so every day, according to the Visa Business and Economic Insights quarterly consumer survey."

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Visa Direct Taps Stablecoins to Unlock Faster Funding for Businesses

Visa

"At SIBOS 2025, Visa announced it will launch a stablecoin prefunding pilot through Visa Direct, unlocking liquidity and modernizing treasury operations for the digital-first economy. How the pilot works: Stablecoin pre-funding: Businesses pre-fund Visa Direct with stablecoins instead of fiat to cover payouts. Who it’s for: Banks, remitters and financial institutions that need faster liquidity across borders. Availability: Visa is working with partners that meet criteria and plan to expand the pilot in 2026."

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Visa Announces General Availability of VCS Hub; Ushers in a New Era of AI-Powered Commercial Payments Innovation

Visa

"Visa Inc. announced the general availability of the Visa Commercial Solutions (VCS) Hub, a breakthrough platform that redefines the future of commercial payments for issuers and fintechs worldwide. As expansion continues, the VCS Hub will also incorporate next-generation AI capabilities, ultimately offering issuers the ability to unlock a unified, intelligent platform that turns complexity into simplicity."

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Visa's Fleet 2.0: Supercharging B2B Payments [Video]

Procurement Magazine

"Visa's Fleet 2.0 card – involving 15 different partners – addresses procurement challenges in fleet management, aiming for improved user experience. The introduction of the Visa Fleet 2.0 card is set to enhance procurement flexibility, simplifying fleet management systems and improving operational efficiency. The Visa Fleet 2.0 features include: spend controls, digital onboarding, all-expense coverage for seamless financial operations, enhanced data tracking for informed procurement decisions, fuel discounting and integration into in-car and mobile wallets...and more."

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Visa Launches Visa Private in UAE — A First-Of-Its-Kind Payment Experience for High-Net-Worth Individuals

Visa Middle East

"Visa has announced the launch of Visa Private, an exclusive premium offering tailored for high-net-worth individuals (HNWIs) who seek a level of service and benefits that go beyond conventional card experiences. Available first in the UAE before a wider GCC rollout, Visa Private combines seamless, secure payment technology with carefully curated travel, lifestyle and retail privileges. Key Visa Private Privileges include ...."

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Visa Launches Mobile Payments Platform in DRC

IBS Intelligence

"Visa has launched Visa Pay, a next-generation mobile payments solution designed to expand access to secure, interoperable, and seamless money movement in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Developed as a mobile-first platform, Visa Pay enables consumers and businesses to pay, get paid, and move money across bank and mobile ecosystems, offering account-to-account transfers in both Congolese francs (CDF) and US dollars."

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Visa Advances Agentic Commerce with MCP Server, Acceptance Agent Toolkit

Visa

"Artificial intelligence, generative AI, large language models (LLMs) and machine learning have transformed our world, processing massive amounts of data and creating magical experiences at an unprecedented rate. Today, we’re announcing important ways we’re expanding Visa Intelligent Commerce and bringing new agentic commerce experiences to clients, partners and consumers faster: Introducing our Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server for Visa Intelligent Commerce and Piloting the Visa Acceptance Agent Toolkit:"

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Visa Shutters US Open-Banking Unit as Data Fight Heats Up, Bloomberg News Reports

MSN/Reuters

"Payments processor Visa has shut its open-banking business in the United States, Bloomberg News reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter. The business gives fintechs easier access to customer bank data, helping them offer smoother sign-ups and money transfers."

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Students Say Managing Bills Is the Hardest Part of Being an Adult at University [Visa A2A] [UK]

Visa

"More than a third (39%) of UK students find managing bills the hardest part of ‘adulting’ at university. Visa A2A, a new technology from Visa, is set to transform how students manage their recurring bill and subscription payments. Visa A2A technology, which is now ready for market in the UK, enables a smarter digital experience than the traditional system in place for bank transfers used for bills and subscriptions. It also includes advanced security features and a dispute resolution service."

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