Download the full report to see what acquirers say it will take to move agentic commerce from technical possibility to everyday reality.
March 18, 2026
Visa Teams With Stripe on Agent Payments
Visa is supporting Stripe and Tempo’s Machine Payments Protocol (MPP) by enabling card-based payments for trusted autonomous agent payments. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article...
March 18, 2026
Stripe-Backed Protocol Lets AI Agents Transact Autonomously
Tempo, a payment-focused blockchain incubated by Stripe and cryptocurrency venture firm Paradigm, launched its mainnet and introduced an open standard for machine payments Wednesday (March 18). Get the Full Story...
March 17, 2026
Visa and Mastercard Win Right to Appeal UK Ruling on...
Visa and Mastercard have been granted permission to challenge a major UK ruling that found aspects of their fee structures breached competition law, marking a significant development in a long-running...
March 17, 2026
Mastercard and Visa Secure Appeal in UK Multilateral Interchange Fee...
The London Court of Appeal ruled Tuesday (March 17) that Mastercard and Visa can challenge last year’s judgment that they breached competition law with their multilateral interchange fees, Reuters reported...
March 17, 2026
Visa Debuts Agentic Program to Help Banks Test AI Payments
Visa has launched Visa Agentic Ready, a program that gives banks a structured way to test payments made by AI agents on behalf of consumers. Announced in a Tuesday (March...
March 17, 2026
Mastercard Buys BVNK in $1.8 Billion Bet on Stablecoin Settlement
There’s a fundamental flaw in how many observers view the stablecoin boom. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all...
March 17, 2026
Mastercard to Acquire BVNK in $1.8 Billion Deal to Expand...
Mastercard announced on Tuesday that it plans to acquire stablecoin payments infrastructure firm BVNK for up to $1.8 billion, marking a significant step in the company’s efforts to expand into...
March 16, 2026
Visa and Fiserv Streamline Merchant Payment Acceptance With New APIs
Visa has expanded its partnership with payments and financial technology provider Fiserv. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content...
March 16, 2026
Trade Disruptions Tie Up Cash and Test CFO Playbooks
The war in Iran is increasingly giving the freight sector a fright. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all...
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.