Visa this month unveiled the launch of Intelligent Commerce Connect in Canada.
According to Visa, Intelligent Commerce Connect is a new solution that makes it easier for businesses to participate in digital activities powered by artificially intelligent agents.
Consumers increasingly rely on AI agents to make purchases, the company observes. Businesses—those building agents, those selling to them, and those processing transactions—need tools to compete in this expanding market effectively.
Intelligent Commerce Connect acts as a “network, protocol, and token vault-agnostic on-ramp to agentic commerce for agent builders, merchants, and enablers,” suggests a statement from the financial titan.
Through a single integration via the Visa Acceptance Platform, the tech enables secure payment initiation, tokenization, spend controls, and authentication, notes Andrew Torre, who serves as President of Value‑Added Services at Visa.
“From small businesses to the world’s biggest retailers, Visa powers how people pay every day, millions of times over,” says Torre. “Intelligent Commerce Connect brings that same, trusted payment acceptance infrastructure into the emerging world of AI-driven commerce, so businesses can let AI agents buy on behalf of consumers, securely and at scale.”
Agent platforms can plug into existing credential infrastructure and avoid being locked into a single token vendor, Torre says, and even help merchants make product inventories and details accessible so consumers can discover and check out within their AI platform experience.
It’s hardly the first tech-forward move from Visa in Canada.
In December, Visa established a partnership with Vancouver-based financial technology upstart Aquanow to “harness the power of stablecoins.”
The company also announced a collaboration with Canadian fintech incubator Fintech Cadence in 2025 to help provide support, education, and networking opportunities for Canadian startups developing products for the payment and remittance industry.
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