FINANCIAL STRATEGY

YOU REACH THE TOP, how do you measure the next peak to climb? A 2026 World Cup Sponsor, the first global partner for both Red Bull Racing Teams in Formula 1, an Official Payment Technology Partner of the Olympic Games and the name carried with us on at least one card in our wallets – Visa is arguably one of the most recognised players in the game. Any game. The payments giant takes bold strokes to make sure it stays at the top. Acting as a frontline leader for innovations in agentic commerce, Visa recently announced new innovations at its Payments Forum( VPF) in Paris earlier this year. Among announcements about Visa Infinite and its Threat Intelligence platform, it also proclaimed the next milestone in its global Agentic Ready programme, originally launched only in March of this year, which aims to advance agentic commerce through the collaboration of infrastructure partners, standards and global merchants. Speaking to Finance Chief exclusively, Mathieu Altwegg, SVP, Head of Product and Solutions for Visa Europe, explains:

Left to right: Philip Konopik, SVP, Head of Commercial & Money Movement Solutions; Mandy Lamb, Head of Value-Added Services; Mathieu Altwegg, SVP, Head of Product & Solutions at Visa Europe

52 August 2026