How agents pay

AI agents have become a discovery layer between consumers and merchants. The next step is the agent that pays on the consumer's behalf. With Visa, Nuvei completed the first agentic payment authorized across multiple issuing partners in Europe, with purchase, authorization, and payment completing inside the agent. That merchant-first capability has a name: Nuvei Agentic.

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Contents

  1. Foundations

    • The three stages of eCommerce
    • Agentic discovery vs agentic payments
    • First-party and third-party agents

  2. Research: The consumer path to agentic commerce

    • What it would take for consumers to start trusting agentic purchasing

  3. Nuvei Agentic

    • First-party first, open by design
    • Know Your Agent and the protocol compatibility layer

Agentic commerce is the next evolution of digital commerce, with AI not just finding products but completing purchases. This proof of concept starts inside a merchant's own experience and points to where payments are heading: a layer that lets any agent, on any protocol, pay across any network.

Phil Fayer

Phil Fayer

Chair and CEO, Nuvei

EXECUTIVE VIEWPOINT

The agent is the new point of purchase. The question is who it calls to pay.

Phil Fayer, Chairman and CEO of Nuvei, on building agentic commerce in the open, on terms that keep merchants in control.

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