Download the full report to see what acquirers say it will take to move agentic commerce from technical possibility to everyday reality.
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AI agents are rapidly becoming the new power brokers in digital commerce, making purchases, managing subscriptions and choosing merchants before a consumer ever lifts a finger. Tokenization is giving these agents the authority to act and rewriting long-standing assumptions about checkout, loyalty and customer control.
Read more in “Prompt Economy™: Tokens, Trust, and Transactions,” a PYMNTS Intelligence and Visa collaboration.
“How Acquirers Prepare for Agentic Commerce,” a new PYMNTS Intelligence report commissioned by Visa Acceptance Solutions, finds that while many acquirers believe existing payments infrastructure can support agent-led commerce, real-world adoption still hinges on solving practical hurdles such as merchant integration costs, legacy systems and trust around fraud, identity and liability.
Download the full report to see what acquirers say it will take to move agentic commerce from technical possibility to everyday reality.