{"id":239833,"date":"2026-07-02T21:38:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T01:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/02\/visa-and-bbva-show-ai-agents-can-pay-on-card-rails\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T01:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T05:10:09","slug":"visa-and-bbva-show-ai-agents-can-pay-on-card-rails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/02\/visa-and-bbva-show-ai-agents-can-pay-on-card-rails\/","title":{"rendered":"Visa and BBVA Show AI Agents Can Pay on Card Rails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/news\/artificial-intelligence\/2026\/visa-and-bbva-show-ai-agents-can-pay-on-card-rails\/\">Visa and BBVA Show AI Agents Can Pay on Card Rails<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/news\/artificial-intelligence\/2026\/visa-and-bbva-show-ai-agents-can-pay-on-card-rails\/\">https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/news\/artificial-intelligence\/2026\/visa-and-bbva-show-ai-agents-can-pay-on-card-rails\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-07-02 21:38:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.pymnts.com\">www.pymnts.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>BBVA has completed its first AI agent-initiated transaction with Visa in collaboration.<\/li>\n<li>The transaction was initiated by an AI agent on behalf of a cardholder with real card credentials and active merchant systems.<\/li>\n<li>Visa&#8217;s Intelligent Commerce made the transaction possible, using tokenization, real-time fraud monitoring, and other technologies.<\/li>\n<li>Visa Payment Passkey, a biometric authentication method, helped meet the European Union&#8217;s SCA (Strong Customer Authentication) requirements.<\/li>\n<li>This transaction took place under Visa\u2019s Agentic Ready program, which launched in Europe in March to test how AI agent-initiated payments behave in live systems.<\/li>\n<li>BBVA&#8217;s head of consumer payments sees the collaboration as a step towards future commerce driven by AI agents.<\/li>\n<li>Visa&#8217;s country manager in Spain emphasizes the role of Visa&#8217;s network in enabling new commerce phases with existing infrastructure and protections.<\/li>\n<li>Visa&#8217;s senior vice president predicts AI personal assistants could enter commerce, starting with simple tasks within three years.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Visa and BBVA Show AI Agents Can Pay on Card Rails https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/news\/artificial-intelligence\/2026\/visa-and-bbva-show-ai-agents-can-pay-on-card-rails\/ Publish Date: 2026-07-02&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":239834,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/BBVA.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239833"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239833"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":239835,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239833\/revisions\/239835"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}