Visa Intelligent Commerce and Basis Theory enable a new Agentic Cards API capability developed by Crossmint for agents in OpenClaw, Claude Code, Hermes, Zo Computer, and other agentic platforms to pay for things with supported Visa cards.
Block’s Cash App began rolling out support for USDC stablecoin transfers on May 27, initially reaching around a quarter of its nearly 60 million users, with full availability expected by the end of the week. The feature covers four blockchain networks Ethereum, Solana, Polygon, and Arbitrum and carries no transfer fees at launch.
Just as people, AI agents have much more possibilities to fulfil their potential if they have money to back their actions. Without the ability to transact, all the search and analysis agentic systems perform remain on theoretical level. To empower AI agents with more practical tasks, they need agentic payment mechanisms that are already emerging […]
Visa Inc. announced the expansion of its Agentic Ready program to clients in Asia Pacific and Latin America. The program was first launched with banks and issuing partners in Europe, including the United Kingdom. It focuses on preparation for agent-led commerce.
Palm-based biometric payments, once promoted as a frictionless alternative to cards and mobile wallets, are likely to face legal challenges in the European Union, even as their rollout in the United States has shown mixed results.
Visa pilot stablecoin setllement program is now going to feature nine different blockchains, expanding the network choice for issuers and acquirers.
Digital banking platform myTU has partnered with E100, one of Europe’s larger fuel card and mobility services providers, to embed business banking and Visa payment cards directly into E100’s client portal for transport companies operating across the continent.
European payments technology company Nexi has struck a long-term agreement with Visa to bring fully managed card issuing services to German banks, offering institutions a way to modernize their card programs without taking on additional operational complexity.
Visa has launched a new “Creator Card” in the UK so that TikTok LIVE earnings reach the online entrepreneurs faster and more simply.
In France, the CB network is reportedly striving to become the next payment sovereignty frontier as officials warn against overreliance on foreign payment methods, such as Visa and Mastercard.
Visa has launched a validator node on the Tempo blockchain, joining Stripe and Zodia Custody, a digital asset firm backed by Standard Chartered, as the first external participants helping operate the network.
AI agents may perform various tasks for a business or individual, but they may not complete half of them without the ability to actually make payments. Nevermined aims to solve that deficiency with their new agent card delegation feature based on secure technologies developed by Visa, Coinbase’s x402, and VGS.
A practical checklist for navigating VAMP, 3DS2, and Compelling Evidence 3.0 — the three Visa and Mastercard frameworks now shaping payment compliance across card-not-present transactions.
From subscription management to stablecoin and blockchain infrastructure, this week delivered a concentrated burst of fintech news that signals where the industry’s attention and capital is pointing in early 2026. Here are the five stories shaping the conversation.
RS2 has spent decades powering payments behind the scenes. Now it’s stepping into the consumer card payments spotlight and the $17.55bn co-branded card market it’s entering explains why.
As OTPs become irrelevant in India starting tomorrow due to RBI new payment security policies, Razorpay, one of the local market leaders in digital payment processing, is introducing regulation compliant biometric authentication for card payments, in partnership with Mastercard and Visa.
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