20 August 2026
Visa, Mastercard join AI payments industry group
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- Visa and Mastercard joined the Agentic Payments Alliance, a new group setting standards for how AI systems handle transactions.
- The alliance also includes Fiserv (payment processing), Circle (cryptocurrency), Solana (blockchain network), and Remitly (money transfer service).
- The group aims to create rules for AI agents, which are software that can act independently, to safely conduct commerce.
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Visa, Mastercard, Fiserv, Circle, Solana, and Remitly joined the Agentic Payments Alliance to guide development of AI commerce.