Nuvei Agentic

With Visa, Nuvei completed the first agentic payment authorized across multiple issuing partners in Europe. A merchant's AI agent bought a product on a shopper's behalf and paid inside the agent, with no hand-off to a separate checkout. It ran on Arvato Systems' platform for the fashion brand Kings and Priests, settled on live Visa rails, and stayed inside shopper-set guardrails for spend and category. The pilot keeps purchase, authorization, and payment inside the agent, and establishes the proof point for Nuvei Agentic: a protocol- and network-agnostic layer any AI agent can call to pay.

Press release

Nuvei completes first-party in-agent payment with Visa; unveils merchant-led agentic payments strategy.

First live in-agent purchase authorized across multiple issuers on Visa rails. Nuvei Agentic delivers what merchants asked for: first-party agent capabilities today, third-party agents when the market demands.

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This is not a guess at where the market is going. At Nuvei's Global Customer Advisory Board, the priority was clear: start with first-party agents, the AI experiences merchants run themselves, on their own sites and apps, inside their own customer relationships. Make that work first, then extend the same controls to public, third-party agents as the market develops. The pilot demonstrated exactly that. The agent ran on the merchant's own platform, and the brand kept the customer relationship. First-party first means merchants learn this channel on ground they own, and when the public-agent moment arrives they are extending something that already works.

A single transaction was never the hard part. The hard part is making one integration handle whatever protocol an agent uses, carry verifiable proof that the consumer authorized the purchase, and clear across any network, with fraud models built for how agents behave rather than how people do. Two pieces make that work.

Nuvei Agentic is a neutral layer, not a closed system. A merchant integrates once and keeps both the customer relationship and the merchant-of-record. As the agents and the rails evolve, the integration keeps working. The companies that shape this infrastructure now will set the terms for the next decade, and Nuvei intends to be the open layer merchants control.

The pieces an agent payment depends on already run at scale today: a Level 1 PCI-certified environment, more than 720 payment methods across 200-plus markets, and real-time fraud and risk tooling. Because these capabilities reach merchants through the platforms they already use, they can switch them on without re-engineering their payments stack, and without giving up the customer relationship or the merchant-of-record.

Nuvei is targeting initial availability in the second half of 2026, covering protocol compatibility, the Know Your Agent registry and agent risk scoring, network certifications, and a developer sandbox for the teams building these experiences. The pilot is the first proof point, and Nuvei intends to be honest at each step about what is in pilot and what is live.