Payments giant Visa has detailed how AI agents, richer tokens and blockchain settlement will reshape commerce.
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South Africans have already gone digital at the till. Visa is betting their employers are next.
Visa is readying South African banks for AI shopping agents, and its OpenAI deal adds further momentum.
Visa is enrolling local banks for autonomous AI payments, but most consumers still don’t trust AI agents with their money.
Identity, credit scoring and liability all assume a human customer – an assumption agentic AI is breaking.
AI subscriptions nearly doubled in 2025, with 43% of Discovery Bank Visa clients paying for access to chatbots.
A Visa survey has found that 63% of respondents used AI tools for tasks including product research.
A look at South African tech start-ups whose global acquisitions delivered big exits for founders and international impact.
Visa is integrating stablecoins into its payments network, positioning itself as the bridge to global merchant acceptance.
The Reserve Bank’s plan to overhaul the payments ecosystem should help expand participation by fintechs.