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An AI Agent Just Passed Europe's Toughest Payment Authentication Test: By Maren Solberg
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Fusion42 · 14 September 2026 · Fusion42 review
Visa's My Agent AI completed a real payment using a European Revolut card that satisfies EU Strong Customer Authentication regulations by leveraging payment passkeys, tokenisation, spending boundaries, and real-time fraud monitoring, demonstrating agentic payments can meet strict regulatory standards.
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You must update your payment products to support agent-approved transactions under EU regulations now that Visa proved AI agents can comply with Strong Customer Authentication. This opens a new route to serve customers opting for autonomous checkout backed by trusted cardholder approvals.
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