{"id":243512,"date":"2026-07-15T12:53:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T16:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/15\/thredd-joins-visa-agentic-ready-program-to-power-ai-payments\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T13:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T17:10:09","slug":"thredd-joins-visa-agentic-ready-program-to-power-ai-payments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/15\/thredd-joins-visa-agentic-ready-program-to-power-ai-payments\/","title":{"rendered":"Thredd Joins Visa Agentic Ready Program to Power AI Payments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/news\/artificial-intelligence\/2026\/thredd-joins-visa-agentic-ready-program-power-ai-payments-european-issuers\/\">Thredd Joins Visa Agentic Ready Program to Power AI Payments<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/news\/artificial-intelligence\/2026\/thredd-joins-visa-agentic-ready-program-power-ai-payments-european-issuers\/\">https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/news\/artificial-intelligence\/2026\/thredd-joins-visa-agentic-ready-program-power-ai-payments-european-issuers\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-07-15 12:53:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.pymnts.com\">www.pymnts.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Thredd has joined the Visa Agentic Ready program to offer AI-initiated transaction processing for European financial institutions without needing new infrastructure.<\/li>\n<li>The integration will include Zilch, a consumer payments platform, which will be among the first to activate Thredd\u2019s capabilities for cardholders.<\/li>\n<li>Thredd aims to position itself as a &#8220;trust layer&#8221; in the payments ecosystem as the market shifts to agentic commerce, where AI software independently executes purchases.<\/li>\n<li>Thredd ensures secure transactions using the Visa Token Service, allowing AI agents to interact only with secure tokens instead of underlying card credentials.<\/li>\n<li>The platform builds on secure infrastructure with specialized tokens and custom rules to detect and prevent AI-specific fraud types.<\/li>\n<li>Both Zilch CEO Philip Belamant and Thredd CEO Jim McCarthy stress the importance of maintaining trust, security, and control amid the integration of AI agents into financial transactions.<\/li>\n<li>Thredd\u2019s participation in the program aims to provide a seamless transition for financial institutions, acting as a bridge to agent-ready payments.<\/li>\n<li>The shift towards &#8220;agentic credit&#8221; in the market is utilizing real-time transaction intelligence in payment flows, emphasizing the importance of transaction-level features powered by AI.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thredd Joins Visa Agentic Ready Program to Power AI Payments https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/news\/artificial-intelligence\/2026\/thredd-joins-visa-agentic-ready-program-power-ai-payments-european-issuers\/ Publish Date: 2026-07-15 12:53:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":243513,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Thredd.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243512","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\/243512"}],"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=243512"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":243514,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243512\/revisions\/243514"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}