Visa Inc. (NYSE: V)

Customers of Abu Dhabi-based real estate developer, manager and investor Aldar will be able to pay their real estate service charges by talking with an artificial intelligence (AI) agent. Aldar and Visa added ...

If stablecoins finally had their moment during 2025, it wasn’t the moment most crypto evangelists imagined. There were no consumer splash campaigns that took off, no breathless promises of “banking the ...

Financial services platform OnePay has joined Google’s Agent Payments Protocol (AP2), saying it will help make agentic payments more secure, transparent and useful. OnePay will be a credential provider in AP2 and will help define how payment methods are stored, selected and ...

PayPal is reportedly extending the role of its stablecoin into artificial intelligence finance. That means linking the PYUSD coin to on-chain funding mechanisms from USD.AI, a stablecoin protocol offering credit to ...

The story of enterprise transformation in 2025 wasn’t just about technology but about who was making the decisions. Not all companies are moving at the same speed or with the same ...

Visa is on track to offer artificial intelligence-enabled commerce to consumers within months and expects that millions of consumers will be using AI agents to complete purchases by the end ...

Geography is becoming as important as strategy in how well companies manage working capital. Different regions are improving efficiency in different ways and seeing different results. The latest 2025/26 Growth Corporates Working ...

Predictions of a cashless world have circulated for decades, yet physical money continues to anchor daily commerce across much of the globe. Visa’s 2026 outlook highlighted just how large that footprint ...

Speaking at a recent financial conference, American Express’ CEO offered a blunt opinion on surcharges. “Our card members should not be discriminated against,” Steve Squeri said at the Goldman Sachs U.S. Financial ...

Visa and cybersecurity and cloud computing company Akamai Technologies are collaborating to strengthen the trust layer in agentic commerce. This collaboration will integrate Visa’s Trusted Agent Protocol with Akamai’s edge-based behavioral ...

Predictions of a cashless world have circulated for decades, yet physical money continues to anchor daily commerce across much of the globe. Visa’s 2026 outlook highlighted just how large that footprint ...

Across the Middle East, governments, banks and global payments firms are treating digital payments as foundational infrastructure for future economic activity. The focus is not limited to consumer convenience or ...

Philippines-based embedded banking platform Netbank has tapped Thredd to launch its Cards-as-a-Service (CaaS) solution. This solution will allow FinTechs, banks and eWallets to “rapidly deploy modern, flexible card issuing across both consumer and commercial segments,” ...

Visa is attempting to help Syria build a digital payments ecosystem and integrate into the global digital economy. The company formed a partnership with the Central Bank of Syria and financial ...

Merchants chasing global growth are learning that cross-border sales succeed only when payments feel as local as possible. That is the new message emerging from the latest Payments Optimization Tracker, ...

 Visa — Sam Hamilton, Head of AI and Data In January, Hamilton was prescient about artificial intelligence (AI). He laid out just how pervasive he expects Gen AI to be across ...

Global payments processor Thredd has signed an agreement in which it will connect across three global Visa Cloud Connect endpoints. By connecting to Visa Cloud Connect, which allows organizations to access ...

As payment innovations scale, settlement and infrastructure have traditionally reared their heads as the strategic chokepoints. In the early days of the digital payments revolution, for example, industry titans like Mastercard, ...

As shoppers increasingly rely on AI assistants to search, compare and buy, the traditional customer journey is disappearing. Instead of typing into search bars, consumers are talking to trusted, permissioned ...

In the hierarchy of business expenses, the cost of a postage stamp rarely registers. Particularly when compared to capital equipment, raw materials or enterprise software. That could be why, despite ...

Visa is on track to offer artificial intelligence-enabled commerce to consumers within months and expects that millions of consumers will be using AI agents to complete purchases by the end ...

Business credit for large enterprises operates at arm’s length, guided by formal procurement flows and rigid financial controls. Everything is mediated through procurement teams, finance departments and policies. But small and ...

What separates top card issuers from everyone else often comes down to one capability: the ability to use analytics to see the full value of a customer relationship. Research from PYMNTS ...

Extend now enables businesses to connect “virtually any” bank credit card to its spend and expense management platform for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). This capability gives SMBs’ finance teams a ...

FinTech Made Card announced a new Visa card along with $8 million in seed funding. With the announcement comes a national distribution partnership with Fairway Home Mortgage, one of the largest ...

Even the most successful card issuers cannot rest on their laurels. Sustained excellence demands continuous innovation and an expanding array of offerings to keep end users engaged and loyal. The July 2025 ...

Tech companies aren’t just going head-to-head with their devices. They’re about to have dueling consumer credit cards too. Samsung Electronics is preparing to launch its own credit card in the U.S. ...

Visa and Mastercard have announced an updated settlement in a 20-year legal battle with merchants. The agreement, which still requires approval from the Eastern District Court of New York, was announced ...

T-Mobile is launching its first credit card in partnership with Capital One. The wireless company’s new card will feature no annual fees and 2% in T-Mobile rewards, company officials told Bloomberg ...

What a difference Walmart makes. That’s one of the takeaways from our focus for this week’s app provider rankings: Credit card apps. MySynchrony led our most recent sweep of data ...

Predictions of a cashless world have circulated for decades, yet physical money continues to anchor daily commerce across much of the globe. Visa’s 2026 outlook highlighted just how large that footprint ...

Convenience store and gas station chain Circle K has teamed up with vehicle-based payment technology provider Car IQ to launch a mobile app for fleet operators. The new Circle K Pro ...

Watch more: Acquirers and Payment Infrastructure — Powering the Mobile-First Future Acquirers must future-proof their operations in an increasingly mobile-first world. As Visa Acceptance Solutions Global Sales, Engineering Vice President Pritesh Patel ...

Australia, while a burgeoning mobile-first market, presents a paradox for financial institutions, FinTech innovators and payment providers. In the Land Down Under, there’s a population eager for digital convenience, particularly one-click ...

Singapore is among the nations most visibly moving toward mobile-first shopping. In the “2025 Global Digital Shopping Index: Singapore Edition,” released by PYMNTS Intelligence and commissioned by Visa Acceptance Solutions, a ...

To thrive in today’s fragmented retail landscape, small and medium-sized businesses must close the digital divide and embrace unified commerce strategies. It’s a good summary of PYMNTS’ new 2025 Global Digital ...

Samsung Wallet in the U.S. now simplifies peer-to-peer (P2P) payments with the help of Visa Tap technology and the Visa Direct money movement solution. With the launch of this Samsung Tap to Transfer, ...

Visa launched Visa Commercial Integrated Partners, a program to help businesses embed payments into their products and platforms. The program is designed to cover companies ranging from ERP platforms that streamline ...

Brazilian consumers are rapidly adopting mobile devices for retail purchases, outpacing global trends, though pervasive payment friction presents a significant hurdle for merchants, according to the 2025 Global Digital Shopping ...

In the current environment, no matter what the country, consumers are keenly aware of the pressures of inflation, of how far their spending can stretch, and where they may have ...