The FCA has opened an investigation into Visa, Mastercard and PayPal over whether their digital wallet agreements may be limiting competition in the UK. At the same time, Mastercard is also involved in a separate pilot with banks and crypto firms to test faster cross-border settlement using tokenised US Treasuries.

The financial system is being rewired both externally and internally, and AI Agents will be among the first users to utilize this new pipeline on a large scale.

Visa has partnered with WeFi to test stablecoin payments that let users spend crypto while keeping control of their own funds. The rollout will begin in parts of Europe, Asia and Latin America, with plans to expand as rules and approvals allow.

Visa has launched Intelligent Commerce Connect, a platform that lets AI agents browse, select, and pay for products on behalf of users across Visa and non-Visa cards.

Visa is accelerating its expansion into agentic AI commerce with the launch of Intelligent Commerce Connect, a platform designed to let autonomous AI agents discover products, make purchasing decisions, and execute payments on behalf of users.

Nium lets businesses issue stablecoin-funded cards that work at Visa and Mastercard. The platform converts stablecoins to fiat and handles compliance and settlement in one system.

In a striking coincidence, Visa and Stripe-backed Tempo both unveiled similar tools that allow users to execute AI-driven payments, signaling that the race to power autonomous “agent commerce” is officially on.

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