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Visa and World Bank Group Launch $200 Million Digital Payments Initiative in Emerging Markets

Visa (NYSE: V) and the International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, announced a new risk-sharing initiative aimed at expanding access to digital payments and financial services across emerging markets.

Under the agreement, IFC will share credit settlement risk associated with Visa transactions at participating financial institutions. The structure is designed to make it easier for these institutions to connect underbanked consumers and small businesses to Visa’s digital payments network.

The initiative is expected to support approximately $200 million in risk sharing over five years. It will initially focus on 14 countries across Latin America and the Caribbean and is expected to reach roughly 50 financial institutions with below-investment-grade ratings.

Visa and IFC said the partnership could help millions of additional consumers and small businesses gain access to digital financial services, supporting payments, borrowing and participation in the formal economy.

For Visa, the initiative extends its payments infrastructure deeper into emerging markets while reducing some of the credit-settlement constraints faced by participating financial institutions.

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WS Investor 09-09-26

Visa Expands Stablecoin Strategy With Onchain Lending for Payment Companies

Visa (NYSE: V) is expanding deeper into blockchain-based finance with a new onchain credit model designed to provide working capital to stablecoin-linked card programs and fintech companies.

The payments giant is combining VisaNet settlement data with blockchain lending infrastructure, allowing lenders to assess how payment programs are performing and potentially provide financing through onchain credit markets. Visa said more than $694 billion in stablecoin-denominated loans have moved through onchain lending protocols since 2020.

The initiative builds on Visa’s rapidly growing stablecoin business. More than 160 stablecoin-linked card programs now operate on its network, with payment volume from those programs increasing nearly 200% year over year. Visa’s stablecoin settlement volume has also surpassed a $20 billion annualized run rate, more than 15 times the level a year earlier.

An early implementation involves Credit Coop, which uses smart contracts and Visa settlement data to provide working capital and settlement financing. The model has supported more than $2.5 billion in cumulative financed settlement volume since 2023, with zero defaults across participating facilities.

Visa said the infrastructure has processed more than 3,000 borrowing events and 9,000 repayments programmatically onchain.

The move represents another step in Visa’s effort to connect traditional payment infrastructure with stablecoins and blockchain technology. By using real-world VisaNet payment data to support underwriting and automated repayment, Visa is seeking to extend onchain lending beyond crypto markets and into everyday commercial payments.

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The Investor 09-08-26

Visa Expands AI-Powered A2A Protect to Stop Payment Fraud Before Money Leaves Accounts

Visa (NYSE: V) announced an enhanced version of its A2A Protect fraud-prevention platform, introducing new AI capabilities designed to help banks detect fraudulent account-to-account payments before transactions are authorized.

The upgrade introduces a unified fraud score combining Visa’s payment-network intelligence with technology from Featurespace. It marks Visa’s first integrated product launched since acquiring the fraud-detection specialist.

Visa said A2A Protect has demonstrated the ability to detect more than 50% additional fraud while reducing unnecessary fraud alerts by more than 40%. During the first six months of deployment, the system has increased fraud detection by as much as 75%.

The technology uses AI and transfer learning to provide financial institutions with risk intelligence immediately, rather than requiring months of transaction history to train individual fraud models. Banks that opt into network-level intelligence sharing can also identify emerging scam hotspots and coordinated fraud patterns across the wider payments ecosystem.

The expansion is strategically important as account-to-account payments grow rapidly worldwide, with Visa citing projections that transaction volumes will surpass 5.8 trillion by 2028, up 160% from 2024.

A2A Protect also strengthens Visa’s push beyond traditional card payments into broader payment-security and value-added services. Integrating Featurespace technology could help Visa capture additional revenue from fraud prevention as real-time bank transfers become a larger part of the global payments market.

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WS Investor 09-01-26

Visa Expands AI Cybersecurity Platform With Automated Remediation

Visa (NYSE: V) expanded its AI-powered cybersecurity capabilities on Thursday, introducing an upgraded version of its Visa Vulnerability Agentic Harness (VVAH) alongside new cybersecurity advisory services.

The open-source, model-agnostic VVAH framework now extends beyond vulnerability discovery into remediation and validation. Visa said the technology can reduce the time between identifying and resolving attack paths from weeks to hours in some cases.

### Visa Pushes Further Into Agentic AI

The upgraded platform introduces closed-loop remediation, allowing failed security fixes to be refined and retested automatically. It also supports Anthropic and OpenAI models, as well as other AI models through configuration.

Visa Consulting & Analytics is simultaneously launching new services focused on AI cybersecurity education, vulnerability assessments and cyber-risk remediation strategies.

### Why It Matters

The initiative expands Visa's role beyond payment processing into cybersecurity and AI-driven enterprise services. Visa can leverage its extensive relationships with banks and financial institutions to distribute these higher-value services.

VVAH has already been downloaded by tens of thousands of developers since its open-source release in June. Visa is also working with NVIDIA, IBM and Red Hat on broader AI and open-source security initiatives.

For investors, the announcement reinforces Visa's strategy of using AI, cybersecurity expertise and its global payments ecosystem to expand its value-added services business.

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Global Finance News 08-27-26

Visa Stock Slips 0.8% in Premarket Despite Strong Q3 Results as Investors Take Profits

Visa (NYSE: V) shares slipped 0.8% in Wednesday's premarket trading despite reporting another quarter of double-digit revenue growth, robust payment activity, and continued shareholder returns, suggesting investors may be taking profits after the stock's recent gains.

The payments giant reported fiscal third-quarter net revenue of $11.6 billion, up 14% year over year, while GAAP EPS increased 10% to $2.97 and non-GAAP EPS rose 11% to $3.32. Growth was supported by resilient consumer and business spending, with payment volume increasing 10%, processed transactions rising 10%, and total cross-border volume climbing 13%, highlighting continued strength in global payment activity.

Visa also continued to generate substantial cash for shareholders. During the quarter, the company returned $6.2 billion through dividends and share repurchases, including $4.9 billion used to repurchase approximately 14.5 million shares. The board also approved a higher quarterly dividend of $0.67 per share, reinforcing confidence in the company's cash-generating ability.

Management emphasized that demand remained healthy across consumer payments, commercial payments, money movement solutions, and value-added services. The company also highlighted continued investment in new payment technologies and products designed to support long-term growth.

Despite the strong headline results, investors appeared focused on rising expenses. GAAP operating expenses increased 19%, while non-GAAP operating expenses rose 17%, driven primarily by higher personnel and marketing costs. Although Visa continues to deliver industry-leading profitability, the faster pace of expense growth may have prompted some caution following the stock's strong performance this year.

The modest premarket decline appears to reflect profit-taking rather than concerns about Visa's underlying business. Strong payment volumes, resilient cross-border spending, aggressive share repurchases, and continued expansion into commercial payments and value-added services reinforce the company's long-term growth outlook, even as investors monitor expense trends and valuation.

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Global Finance News 07-29-26

Visa Expands Stablecoin Settlement to Nine Blockchains, Hits $7B Run Rate

Visa has added five new blockchains, Arc, Base, Canton, Polygon, and Tempo, to its global stablecoin settlement pilot, bringing the total to nine supported networks. The program has reached a $7 billion annualized settlement run rate, up 50% quarter over quarter. The expansion reflects the growing role of stablecoins in mainstream payments, complementing Visa's existing support for Avalanche, Ethereum, Solana, and Stellar across more than 130 stablecoin-linked card programs in over 50 countries.

Source: Visa Inc., Business Wire, April 29, 2026

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Global Finance News 04-29-26

Visa shares rise in futures trading after strong earnings and buyback boost

Shares of Visa Inc. (V) moved higher in after-hours and futures trading following the earnings release, as investors reacted positively to strong financial results and an expanded share repurchase program.

The Visa Inc. reported fiscal Q2 2026 net revenue of $11.2 billion, up 17% year over year, while GAAP EPS rose 36% to $3.14 and non-GAAP EPS increased 20% to $3.31. Growth was driven by strong payments volume (+9%), cross-border volume (+12%), and processed transactions (+9%), highlighting continued resilience in global consumer spending.

Investor sentiment was further supported by capital return initiatives. Visa returned $9.2 billion to shareholders during the quarter and announced a new $20 billion multi-year share repurchase authorization, reinforcing confidence in future cash generation.

According to Reuters and broader market coverage, the stock’s upward move in futures trading reflects strong earnings quality, particularly in high-margin cross-border transactions, as well as continued growth in digital payments and value-added services.

Overall, the positive price reaction in futures markets signals investor confidence in Visa’s ability to sustain double-digit revenue growth, expand earnings, and return capital, positioning the company as a key beneficiary of ongoing global payment digitization trends.

Source: Visa Q2 2026 Earnings Release, Reuters

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WS Investor 04-29-26

Visa Inc. announced it has launched a validator node on the Tempo blockchain, marking a significant step in expanding its blockchain infrastructure capabilities and supporting the development of stablecoin-based payment systems.

By joining Tempo as an anchor validator, Visa will play a direct role in validating transactions and strengthening the network’s security and performance. The move follows six months of collaboration with Tempo’s engineering team and reflects Visa’s strategy to operate critical blockchain infrastructure in-house.

Tempo, a next-generation Layer-1 blockchain designed for real-time and machine-to-machine payments, has also added other major partners such as Stripe and Zodia Custody as validators. Visa’s participation is expected to enhance the reliability and scalability of onchain payment solutions.

The initiative aligns with Visa’s broader efforts to advance blockchain-based payment innovation and reinforces its commitment to shaping the future of digital and stablecoin transactions through secure and enterprise-grade infrastructure.
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WS Investor 04-14-26

Visa Inc. has launched Intelligent Commerce Connect, a new solution designed to enable businesses to participate in AI-driven commerce by supporting transactions initiated by AI agents.

The platform, part of Visa’s Intelligent Commerce portfolio, allows merchants, developers, and payment enablers to integrate agent-based payments through a single connection via the Visa Acceptance Platform. It supports secure payment initiation, tokenization, authentication, and spend controls, while enabling transactions using both Visa and non-Visa cards.

Currently in pilot with partners including AWS and others, the solution aims to simplify adoption of “agentic commerce,” where AI systems can make purchases on behalf of consumers. It also enables merchants to make product catalogs accessible within AI platforms, facilitating discovery and checkout directly through AI-driven interfaces.

Visa said the offering is designed to extend its global payment infrastructure into emerging AI-powered shopping environments, helping businesses securely scale this new transaction model.
Business Wire

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WS Investor 04-08-26

Visa has introduced an Enhanced Subscription Manager, a new service designed to give consumers greater control over recurring payments within their banking apps.

The solution enables users to view, manage, switch, and cancel subscriptions in one place, while also providing alerts and spending insights to improve transparency. It aims to reduce unwanted charges and disputes, while helping financial institutions strengthen customer engagement and retention.

Developed in collaboration with fintech firm Pinwheel, the service allows subscription management across more than 100 major merchants and supports card switching across payment networks.

Visa plans to roll out the offering to North American issuers in summer 2026, with further expansion to Latin America and the Caribbean later in the year, as global subscription volumes continue to grow rapidly.
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