05/06/2026
โ๐๐ข๐บ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต๐ด ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ท๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ง๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฎ ๐ค๐ญ๐ช๐ค๐ฌ๐ด... ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ช๐ฏ๐ต๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต.โ
๐๐ต๐ณ๐ข๐ต๐ฆ๐จ๐ช๐ค ๐๐ข๐ญ๐ฌ๐ด: ๐๐น๐ฆ๐ค๐ถ๐ต๐ช๐ท๐ฆ ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ด๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ค๐ต๐ช๐ท๐ฆ
at MPE 2026, Berlin, with ๐ ๐ฒ๐น๐ถ๐๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ๐ฒ ๐ ๐๐ฎ๐น and ๐ ๐ฎ๐๐ต๐ถ๐ฒ๐ ๐๐น๐๐๐ฒ๐ด๐ด, SVP, Head of Product & Solutions for Europe at Visa.
Merchant payments are entering a new phase:
โ AI-driven commerce
โ Agent-based transactions
โ Tokenised payments by default
โ Passkeys & biometric authentication
โ Stablecoins for settlement and treasury optimisation
And behind all of it:
๐ฃ๐ฟ๐ผ๐ด๐ฟ๐ฎ๐บ๐บ๐ฎ๐ฏ๐ถ๐น๐ถ๐๐
As ๐ ๐ฎ๐๐ต๐ถ๐ฒ๐ ๐๐น๐๐๐ฒ๐ด๐ด explained:
โ๐๐ฆ ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ท๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ง๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฎ ๐ค๐ญ๐ช๐ค๐ฌ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ง๐ช๐ณ๐ฎ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ โ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ด๐ช๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ญ๐บ ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ด๐ค๐ณ๐ช๐ฃ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ธ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ข๐ฏ๐ต ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ต๐ค๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฃ๐ฆ.โ
That changes the role of payments entirely.
The checkout experience is becoming:
โ more intelligent
โ more seamless
โ increasingly autonomous
And merchants will increasingly need to become:
๐ฎ๐ด๐ฒ๐ป๐๐ถ๐ฐ-๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐.
The challenge now is balancing:
โ trust & fraud prevention
โ innovation
โ scale
โ interoperability
Because while AI is transforming commerce, fraud is evolving just as quickly.
The next wave of payments will not simply optimise transactions.
It could redefine how commerce operates.