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Visa Just Made Agentic Commerce a Payments Standard. Here's What That Means for Retailers.

In the span of 48 hours this week, Visa made two moves that quietly shifted agentic commerce from conference-talk territory into real payments infrastructure. On Monday, March 17, Visa launched Visa Agentic Ready in Europe - a program that puts issuers into controlled production environments to test AI agent-initiated transactions. On Tuesday, Visa announced support for Stripe and Tempo's Machine Payments Protocol (MPP), releasing a card-based specification, a developer SDK, and integrati