Archive · 11 Sep 2026
Visa Announces AI Payments and Cybersecurity Innovations at Fintech Fest
Visa presented new payment and security ideas at a fintech event in Mumbai.
The company showed how artificial intelligence could help people shop and pay more easily.
Several banks and payment companies worked with Visa in these demonstrations.
The system was designed to keep consumers in control while using secure payment tools.
Visa said its technology uses tokenisation and Visa Payment Passkey-based authentication.
The company also released a paper about using advanced AI to improve cybersecurity in India.
The paper describes a tool that can help find and fix security weaknesses.
Visa is offering this tool as a digital public good for the financial ecosystem.
Visa showcased digital payment innovations, strategic collaborations and AI-powered commerce experiences at Global Fintech Fest 2026 in Mumbai.
Live agentic commerce demonstrations involved banks, payment companies and fintechs including Federal Bank, Paytm Payments Services and Razorpay.
The demonstrations showed how consumers could move from product discovery to payment through AI-powered, secure commerce journeys.
Visa launched the whitepaper “Frontier AI: A New Era of Cyber Resilience” to address cybersecurity in India.
The whitepaper highlights the Visa Vulnerability Agentic Harness, an open-source security pipeline intended to support vulnerability discovery, prioritisation, remediation and fix validation.
- Who
- Visa, together with participating banks, fintechs and payment companies, presented the initiatives.
- What
- Visa showcased AI-powered payment experiences and launched a whitepaper on frontier AI and cyber resilience.
- When
- September 11, 2026; the demonstrations took place during the three-day Global Fintech Fest 2026.
- Where
- Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.
- Why
- Visa said the initiatives aim to make digital commerce more intelligent, secure and seamless and to strengthen cybersecurity across India’s financial ecosystem.
- Event
- Global Fintech Fest 2026
- Location
- Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Key focus
- Digital payments, agentic commerce and cybersecurity
- Whitepaper
- “Frontier AI: A New Era of Cyber Resilience”
- Security tool
- Visa Vulnerability Agentic Harness, an open-source, multi-model security pipeline
- Payment technologies
- Tokenisation and Visa Payment Passkey-based authentication
- Intended benefit
- Support consumers, merchants, fintechs and financial institutions