Visa Pushes Agentic Commerce Forward with Nuvei and BBVA

Hey Payments Fanatic!

Visa took two important steps toward agentic commerce this week.

Together with Nuvei, it completed a live AI agent purchase on Visa rails, allowing a merchant's AI agent to discover, authorize, and complete a payment without leaving the shopping experience. Separately, BBVA successfully tested its first AI agent-initiated payment using Visa's infrastructure, showing that these transactions can work within today's banking and regulatory frameworks.

Taken together, the announcements show where payments are heading.

The conversation is no longer about whether AI will be involved in commerce. It's becoming about how payment networks, banks, and merchants build the infrastructure that allows AI agents to transact securely on behalf of consumers.

And if you're interested in where payments are evolving next, keep scrolling for a fascinating conversation with Triple-A founder Eric Barbier on why stablecoins are becoming the infrastructure behind global payments.

See what else is shaping Payments. 👇 See you on Monday!

Cheers,

Marcel

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🎤 Why Stablecoins Could Replace 25% of Cross-Border Payments. In the latest Purpose Driven podcast, Michel Breeuwer speaks with Eric Barbier, Founder & CEO of Triple-A, about how stablecoins are reshaping global payments. The conversation explores enterprise adoption, compliance, financial inclusion, and why Barbier believes stablecoins could transform cross-border payments. Watch the full podcast here

NEWS

🌎 Pomelo Goes Global with Stablecoin-Native Card Infrastructure Across 150+ Markets in partnership with Mastercard and Visa. The company is also introducing agentic payments, tokenization-as-a-service, and automated chargeback management to help issuers scale globally while simplifying operational and regulatory complexity.

🇦🇷 Mastercard and YPF Digital join forces to expand the payments ecosystem in Argentina. The YPF Mastercard prepaid card will offer users the ability to make purchases at both physical and online stores within the global Mastercard network and access numerous benefits.

🌍 VEON and Mastercard join forces to accelerate the accessibility of financial services. The collaboration is designed to bring together VEON’s local digital platforms, customer reach, data-driven capabilities and emerging VEON Digital Finance strategy with Mastercard’s global payments network, technology and financial services expertise.

🇸🇦 Mastercard teams up with Jarir to support Saudi SMEs through exclusive e-commerce discounts. The initiative forms part of Mastercard’s Built Small. Moving Strong program, which supports small businesses with tools and benefits to strengthen resilience and growth.

🇺🇸 dLocal added to membership of the US small-cap Russell 2000® Index, effective June 29, following the 2026 Russell indexes reconstitution. The inclusion is expected to increase the company's visibility among institutional investors and broaden its shareholder base.

🇨🇦 Nuvei completes first-party in-agent payment with Visa and unveils a merchant-led agentic payments strategy. Nuvei and Visa completed a live agentic commerce pilot, enabling an AI agent to securely initiate and complete a purchase on a shopper’s behalf using live Visa payment rails and tokenized credentials.

🌍 BBVA completes its first AI agent-initiated transaction together with Visa, using tokenization, real-time fraud monitoring, and Visa Payment Passkeys to comply with EU Strong Customer Authentication requirements. The pilot demonstrates that agentic payments can operate securely within existing regulatory frameworks.

🇬🇧 LemFi acquires Wealth8 to expand into wealth management and investment services. The acquisition expands LemFi’s offering beyond cross-border payments, credit, and savings to include long-term investing as it builds a full financial platform for migrant communities.

🇺🇸 Top Group Software has acquired corporate spend management startup PayEm for $500,000, with a commitment to invest up to $3.5 million to reduce debt and stabilize the business. Continue reading

🇨🇴 Addi Announces $85 million Series D led by Citius and co-led by BTG Pactual. Addi will use the proceeds to continue growing the credit platform, strengthen technology infrastructure, and expand the portfolio of financial products for consumers and merchants across Colombia.

🇸🇦 Tabby wins new Saudi consumer and business financing licences. The new consumer finance licence allows Tabby to offer individual users longer Shariah-compliant payment plans on purchases between SAR 2,000 and SAR 50,000.

🇩🇪 Stripe unveiled new AI and global commerce tools for German businesses at Stripe Tour Berlin, including its Agentic Commerce Suite, Managed Payments, and expanded platform financial services. The updates help businesses sell through AI interfaces, expand into 195 markets, and offer embedded banking and lending capabilities to SMEs.

🇳🇱 Adyen Closes Talon.One and Orb Acquisitions. Adyen will begin integrating Talon. One’s promotional engine and Orb’s flexible billing. The company also promoted Gayathri Rajan to Chief Product Officer and appointed Hwa Tsao as interim CFO, effective September 1, as it integrates the two businesses.

🌍 Tether abandons Europe as MiCA ban wipes USDT from exchanges. Coinbase, Kraken, and Crypto.com now support only MiCA-compliant stablecoins, while Tether chose not to seek authorization under the EU’s regulatory framework. Read more

🇺🇸 Cross River expands Stripe issuing partnership to help power agentic commerce. The partnership enables Stripe to offer businesses a secure, compliant way for agents to pay with cards on behalf of verified users. Keep reading

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