Visa announced new artificial intelligence (AI), stablecoin and token initiatives Wednesday (June 10).
While unveiling these initiatives at Visa Payments Forum 2026, the company said they are designed to help clients unlock a new generation of commerce that is fast, automated and intelligent, it said in a Wednesday press release.
“AI is transforming the front end of commerce. Stablecoins are reshaping the back end,” Jack Forestell, chief product and strategy officer at Visa, said in a keynote presentation at the event. “Visa’s role is to enable it to work securely, reliably and at global scale, for every participant in the ecosystem.”
The AI initiatives highlighted by Visa at the event include Agent Score, which allows merchants to evaluate their websites’ readiness for agentic commerce; Agentic Directory, which shows agents and merchants that the company has verified as legitimate participants in agentic commerce; a Large Transaction Model, which is an AI model trained to improve fraud detection, increase authorization performance and reduce false declines; and a partnership with OpenAI, which will enable secure Visa payments within agentic commerce across OpenAI.
As PYMNTS reported Wednesday, Forestell said of the partnership with OpenAI: “As AI agents become active participants in the economy, Visa’s focus is to ensure transactions are trusted, secure and seamless. That’s the infrastructure we’re building with partners like OpenAI.”
The token initiatives spotlighted at the event include an enrichment of the data carried by tokens to include more details on the transaction type, where the token is being used and who is making the payment, as well as a token assurance signal that shows trust behind each transaction.
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On the stablecoin and blockchain front, Visa shared developments that include tokenized deposits that will allow banks to turn traditional deposits into programmable, always-on digital money; expanded stablecoin settlement pilots that will include more regions, blockchains and currencies; and an expanded range of stablecoin-linked cards.
“History is filled with innovations that never reached scale,” Forestell said in the press release. “What determines success is trust, security and global reach. That’s what Visa brings to every new era of commerce — and what we’re building for the future.”
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