Visa spotlights agentic-commerce payments and AI cyber resilience at Global Fintech Fest
Visa demonstrated AI-powered agentic-commerce payment journeys with Indian banks and payment firms, using tokenisation and passkey authentication. The company also launched an India-focused Frontier AI cyber-resilience whitepaper and an open-source security pipeline.
What happened
Visa showcased live AI-powered agentic-commerce payment journeys with Indian banks and payment firms at Global Fintech Fest in Mumbai, using tokenisation and
Key facts
- Global Fintech Fest 2026
- three-day event
- more than 200 countries and territories
Why this matters
The demonstrations highlight partnership and acquisition opportunities in agentic-payment orchestration, tokenisation, passkey identity, and AI-driven cyber-security tooling serving India’s banks and merchants.
What to watch
- Announcement of Indian bank or payment-aggregator pilots that allow AI agents to complete live tokenised transactions.
- RBI, NPCI or industry guidance on agent-authorised payments, customer consent, authentication and liability.
- Growth in passkey-enabled payment authentication among major Indian issuers and merchants.
- Merchant adoption of network tokenisation for saved credentials and recurring payments.
- Reported fraud, dispute or account-takeover incidents involving AI shopping agents.
- Partnerships between Visa, Indian ecommerce marketplaces, travel platforms, banks or UPI ecosystem participants.
- Expand tokenisation and passkey integrations with Indian issuers, UPI-linked payment providers, gateways and major ecommerce platforms.
- Push network rules for delegated agent authority, transaction caps, merchant whitelists, consent renewal and chargeback liability.
- Use the Frontier AI cyber-resilience program to sell security assessments, fraud-monitoring tools and implementation partnerships to banks and fintechs.
- Target high-frequency commerce categories with closed-loop pilots rather than open-ended autonomous shopping.
- Lobby for interoperable standards that position card-network token rails as the trusted authorization layer for AI agents.