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As more companies build agent-based shopping tools, banks face a practical question: how to handle those transactions securely within existing payment systems. Visa Agentic Ready is designed to give issuers direct experience with that problem in controlled conditions before they encounter it at scale.
“As AI agents increasingly shape how people shop and buy, payments need to keep up,” Mathieu Altwegg, head of Product and Solutions at Visa Europe, said in the release. “Visa Agentic Ready will initially help European issuers prepare for secure, scalable agent-initiated payments, built on infrastructure people already trust.”
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