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OpenAI, Visa team up to let AI agents make purchases online

ChatGPT is the best-known artificial intelligence platform among consumers

Visa and Mastercard agreed to lower swipe fees by 0.1 percentage point for five years, while standard consumer rates would be lowered to no more than 1.25% for eight years.

Visa, Mastercard US$38 billion swipe fee settlement wins US judge’s approval

It covers more than 12 million merchants and is ‘fair, reasonable and adequate’, he says

Visa operates a digital payments network across more than 200 countries and territories and is used by billions for everyday transactions.

Visa beats quarterly profit estimates on resilient consumer spending

The company is well-positioned to weather any potential economic downturn

Customers at the Milan-Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics megastore in Milan, Italy, Feb 1, 2026.

Visa-only Games highlights Europe’s payments headache

[MILAN] Anyone trying to buy a souvenir at the official Olympic stores at the Milano Cortina Games will have been exposed to an issue troubling Europe’s policymakers: the dominance of foreign payment ...

Travel was “the stand-out category” in 2025, with travel merchant spend growing 2.5 times more than the average spend, while cross-border spending boomed.

AI boom lifts outbound travel as Singapore, Apac economies splurge abroad

Japan, South Korea and China see strong inbound travel amid demand for pop culture tourism

Both Visa and Mastercard agreed to relax their controversial “honour all cards” rules, which required merchants to accept all Visa or Mastercard credit cards if they accept any cards from the two networks.

Visa, Mastercard to cut fees, let retailers reject certain cards

VISA and Mastercard reached a deal with retailers to reduce some of their fees and give merchants more leeway to reject customers who use certain credit cards, including the premium ones that have bee...

Adobe Digital Insights found that 85 per cent of US consumers who have used artificial intelligence for shopping said it improved their experience.
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Security remains a priority as interest in AI ‘personal shoppers’ grows

Visa aims to lay the groundwork for secure and seamless transactions as agentic commerce reshapes how people shop and pay

Global payments volume, a gauge of overall consumer and business spending on Visa’s network, jumped 9% on a constant US dollar basis in the quarter ended Sep 30.

Visa quarterly profit rises on strong transaction volumes

The company’s services are used by billions worldwide for everyday purchases, making it a barometer for economic health

The US has the world’s largest Indian diaspora, according to Indian government data, including around 2.1 million Non-Resident Indians (NRIs), some of the most sought-after marriage prospects.

US visa no longer a passport to love for Indians after Trump H-1B squeeze

[BENGALURU] Sidhi Sharma wanted to marry an Indian citizen with a high-flying job in the United States.