Visa Expands Agentic Ready Program to Asia Pacific, Latin America
Visa (V) said Wednesday it has expanded its Agentic Ready program to clients in the Asia Pacific and Latin America regions to prepare the payment sector for AI agent-led commerce.The initiative allows issuing banks and payment partners to test agent-initiated payments in controlled, real-world environments and validate processes including card enrollment, tokenization, authentication and transaction authorization, the company said.Participants can also evaluate trust, security and control mechanisms and identify operational readiness gaps before agent-led transactions scale broadly, Visa said.Visa said the program was first launched with banks and issuing partners across Europe, including the UK.Shares of the company were up about 8.4% in Wednesday trading.Price: $338.35, Change: $+29.05, Percent Change: +9.39%