Nuvei completes live Visa agentic-commerce payment proof of concept

Nuvei said it completed a live agentic-commerce proof of concept with Visa, Arvato Systems and fashion brand Kings and Priests, marking what it described as the first live in-agent purchase authorized across multiple issuers on Visa rails. In the transaction, a merchant’s AI agent initiated a product purchase on a shopper’s behalf and completed payment inside the agent rather than sending the user to a separate checkout flow. The payment used a tokenized Visa credential within Visa Intelligent Commerce, while shopper-set guardrails such as spending caps and approved categories governed the transaction. The company said the test shifts agentic commerce beyond product discovery by keeping purchase, authorization and payment within a first-party agent, and serves as a proof point for Nuvei Agentic, which it describes as a protocol-agnostic execution layer that any AI agent can call to pay. Nuvei said merchants at its Global Customer Advisory Board this week identified first-party agentic capabilities as the immediate priority, with similar controls expected to extend to third-party agents as the market develops. Participating issuing partners across Europe included Alpha Bank, Piraeus Bank, Bank Leumi, CAL, MAX and Bank of Cyprus. Visa said its Visa Agentic Ready initiative extends capabilities including tokenization and network-level controls to support agent-initiated payments, while Nuvei, Visa and the issuing partners are now working to scale the capabilities toward production. Nuvei also outlined the architecture it is building for agentic commerce, centered on a Protocol Compatibility Layer and Know Your Agent, or KYA (agent identity and governance checks). The company said it is targeting initial availability in the second half of 2026, including protocol compatibility, the KYA registry, agent risk scoring, network certifications and a developer sandbox on its Level 1 PCI-certified infrastructure.