Visa and BBVA Prove Today’s Rails Can Handle Agentic Payments

Spain-based global financial group BBVA has completed its first artificial intelligence agent-initiated transaction in collaboration with Visa . The transaction was initiated by an AI agent on behalf of a cardholder, and the payment was carried out using real card credentials and the systems of an active merchant, BBVA said in a Thursday (July 2) press release . Visa Intelligent Commerce enabled the transaction, using tokenization, real-time fraud monitoring and other technologies that support s