US EditionVisa Opens the Door to AI-Driven Shopping for Businesses Worldwide
- On April 9, 2026, Visa unveiled Intelligent Commerce Connect, a solution enabling AI-driven shopping through secure payments and merchant discovery via a single integration on the Visa Acceptance Platform.
- As consumers increasingly rely on AI agents to make purchases, businesses building or selling to these agents need a simple entry point, prompting Visa Intelligent Commerce Connect's launch within the Visa Intelligent Commerce portfolio.
- Supporting major agent protocols, the platform enables secure payment initiation, tokenization, and authentication while supporting the Trusted Agent Protocol, Machine Payments Protocol , Agentic Commerce Protocol , and Universal Commerce Protocol .
- Currently in pilot with partners including Aldar, AWS, Diddo, Highnote, Mesh, Payabli, and Sumvin, the system helps merchants make product inventories discoverable within AI platform experiences.
- Andrew Torre, President of Value-Added Services at Visa, stated the infrastructure brings trusted payment acceptance into AI-driven commerce, allowing businesses to let AI agents buy securely at scale.
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Visa Opens the Door to AI-Driven Shopping for Businesses Worldwide
SAN FRANCISCO -- Visa Inc. (NYSE: V) today unveiled Intelligent Commerce Connect, a new solution that makes it easier for businesses to connect to and participate in AI-powered commerce. Intelligent Commerce Connect acts as a network, protocol, and token vault-agnostic ‘on ramp’ to agentic commerce for agent builders, merchants, and enablers.
Visa unveils platform to enable AI-powered commerce
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Visa has launched a new platform aimed at helping retailers and payment providers plug into the fast-emerging world of AI-driven shopping. The product, Intelligent Commerce Connect, is designed as a single integration that allows businesses to accept transactions initiated by AI agents. It forms part of Visa’s broader Intelligent Commerce portfolio and is currently in pilot with partners including AWS, Diddo, Highnote, Mesh, Payabli and Sumvin, w
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Visa launches agentic commerce tool to help retailers plug into AI shopping
Visa has launched Intelligent Commerce Connect, a new product designed to make it easier for retailers, platforms and payment providers to support AI-led shopping. The service sits within Visa’s wider Intelligent Commerce portfolio and is being pitched as a single integration for businesses that want to accept transactions initiated by AI agents. It is currently in pilot with partners including AWS, Diddo, Highnote, Mesh, Payabli and Sumvin, wit…
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