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Visa's Intelligent Commerce Connect Makes Agentic Shopping Simple
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- Visa expands Intelligent Commerce Connect (ICC) as a global on-ramp for agentic shopping, enabling secure, cross-network payments initiated by AI agents on behalf of users.
- ICC acts as a neutral, token-vault-agnostic layer, supporting multiple protocols to prevent vendor lock-in while facilitating agent-driven transactions.
- Pilot deployments are underway across Asia-Pacific, Europe, and the Middle East, with readiness work in Latin America and the Caribbean to test AI agent shopping.
- The Trusted Agent Protocol differentiates legitimate AI agents from bots, forming a core security feature of the ICC framework.
- Industry outlook anticipates AI agent-driven commerce to reach trillions in transaction value by 2030, signaling rapid growth and adaptation.
- ICC is positioned within Visa's broader B2AI framework, spanning tokenization to authentication to enable secure agent-enabled commerce.
- Visa frames ICC as the payments backbone for agentic commerce, enabling discovery of merchants and seamless checkout within AI platforms.
- Enablers can process agentic transactions while Visa handles orchestration and PCI compliance, broadening the ecosystem for agent payments.
- The new reference underscores governance and trust enhancements around AI shopping, aligning with human-verified curation and editorial integrity in coverage.
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