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Visa Brings Live AI-Agent Payments to Europe in Real Merchant Trials

Visa has announced the launch of live AI-driven commerce transactions across Europe, allowing AI agents to initiate purchases on behalf of cardholders. The transactions were unveiled at the Visa Payments Forum in Paris and involved more than 30 European financial institutions, including Swiss issuers Cornèrcard, Swisscard and Viseca. The system relies on the Visa Intelligent Commerce platform to connect financial institutions, merchants and AI n…
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Visa has announced today the execution of real transactions of genetic commerce in Europe, in which AI agents make purchases on websites of participating businesses on behalf of cardholders. This announcement has been made in the context of Visa Payments Forum (VPF) in Paris, where Visa has brought together more than 2,000 customers and partners to analyze the future of payments. [...] The post Visa and European banks reach another phase of the …

Four giants of Spanish banking and Visa have materialized a milestone that until recently seemed to be science fiction: the first real purchases entirely executed by artificial intelligence agents. BBVA, CaixaBank, Bankinter and Abanca, together with the payment network, have successfully closed a pilot test in which autonomous software managed transactions without human intervention, marking the exit piston of the delegated payments in Europe. …

Operating within parameters predefined by consumers, AI agents browse products, select items, and make purchases during transactions.

Visa and several European banks have begun to test the purchases made by artificial intelligence agents (AIs) in real environments, as announced by the payment firm this Thursday in a statement.

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IT Finanzmagazin broke the news on Thursday, July 2, 2026.
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