VVisa Inc.
AI adoption · Q1 2026 earnings call
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Visa's management positioned AI and agentic commerce as a major strategic growth driver, dedicating substantial prepared remarks to how AI will expand the addressable market through new transaction categories, B2B digitization, and micro-transactions. Management also highlighted concrete AI-powered product outcomes, including a proprietary large language model for fraud detection showing up to 5x improvement in fraud value capture, and noted that AI-embedded VAS products are seeing the fastest client adoption rates. The overall framing was highly bullish, with AI presented as both a near-term product differentiator and a long-term structural tailwind.
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15 AI mentions from this call.
Extracted verbatim from the V Q1 2026 earnings call transcript. Speaker, section, and specificity tier surfaced for each mention.
- T4Q&A· CEO· Product-embedded AIHave you seen a step function in demand for your fraud protecting services?
“we've been able to put products and services out in market that are performing at much higher levels than the market has seen. One example, I think I mentioned in my prepared remarks is our own Visa LLM that we've built based on billions of our own transactions, our own foundational model for payments, that we're now using to fuel a lot of these models and solutions. And it's having 2, 3, 4, in some cases, 5x improvements in value capture.”
— Ryan McInerney, V earnings callVisa Large Transaction Model - T4Prepared remarks· CEO· Product-embedded AI
“Our new Visa Large Transaction Model is beginning to act as the foundational model for a variety of AI-powered fraud and risk services at Visa. Early results have shown that it can power up to a 5x increase in fraud value capture.”
— Ryan McInerney, V earnings callVisa Large Transaction Model - T3Prepared remarks· CEO· Product-embedded AI
“We believe AI and agentic commerce will expand our addressable market in 4 important ways. First, like eCommerce and mobile commerce before it, agentic commerce will accelerate the digitization of commerce around the world. And just like the acceleration from eCommerce and mobile commerce, Visa will benefit. Second, agents will create significantly more transactions. Agents will intelligently split purchases across multiple transactions, optimizing price, timing and value to the buyer. And importantly, in some use cases, we expect agents will pay for their own data and resource consumption transaction by transaction and event by event, which creates an entirely new category of commerce with micro transactions. Third, we will see accelerated digitization of B2B payments, where there is still enormous friction that AI agents can help remove. They will be able to automate payment initiation directly from invoices and contracts and manage approvals autonomously. In this context, virtual cards and tokenization will become a preferred way to pay and be paid. And lastly, just like the advent of eCommerce and mobile commerce, agentic commerce will increase economic growth generally. Third parties estimate we are looking at a boost of 80 to 150 basis points of incremental GDP growth from AI and when GDP grows, spending grows and digital payments transactions grow.”
— Ryan McInerney, V earnings call - T3Q&A· CEO· Product-embedded AII wanted to dig in on VAS and really the underlying strength that you noted here in the network assets and the marketing services offerings.
“We've been shipping new, especially AI-driven products in the issuing solutions space. We outperformed in the quarter in our AI-driven stand-in processing platform. We outperformed in our Visa supplier payment services platform. Those are two of the service -- issuing solution platforms. In the acceptance side of the business, our Visa account updater platform outperformed. That's one that allows merchants to automatically upstore credentials when you might have had fraud on your account and it was reissued or something like that. Look at our Risk and Security Solutions area, we saw outsized performance in VCAS, our Visa Consumer Authentication Service, or also in our VAA and VRM platforms, Visa Advanced Authorization and Visa Risk Manager. These are all products that we've been deploying in market, largely AI-driven products, and they've been driving broad-based out-performance across the value-added services portfolio.”
— Ryan McInerney, V earnings callSmarter Stand-In Processing, Visa Supplier Payment Services, Visa Account Updater, Visa Consumer Authentication Service, Visa Advanced Authorization, Visa Risk Manager - T3Q&A· CEO· Product-embedded AIHave you seen a step function in demand for your fraud protecting services? We've heard about a lot more fraud instances given AI and bots and others being used.
“the short answer is yes. We've really -- we've seen more demand across the board for our fraud products. And I think that's a signal of two things. One is the environment that we're living in. When I go talk to CEOs of clients around the world, whether they're issuers, acquirers or merchants, fraud is a top 3, top 4 concern for them. And that just wasn't the case several years ago. And fraud broadly defined, whether that's cyber or more traditional payments fraud, enumeration attacks and everything in between.”
— Ryan McInerney, V earnings call - T3Prepared remarks· CEO· Standalone AI product
“We recently launched Visa CLI as a proof of concept, which shows how easy it is for a developer, soon all of us, to use their Visa credential to pay for digital services like an image, a website builder or more via the CLI. The early feedback we have been receiving from developers is very positive. And as we move forward, we plan to enable CLI commerce at scale, which means scaling the availability of command line tools and card acceptance by promulgating standards, products, rules and pricing.”
— Ryan McInerney, V earnings callVisa CLI - T3Q&A· CEO· Product-embedded AIhow can you achieve something similar with a 4-party network versus a 3-party network, when it seems that issuers are going to have to buy in to whatever rule-making you decide on?
“in agentic commerce, we're going to have more transactions that are initiated from authenticated tokens, which is good. Will further reduce fraud, will further protect the ecosystem. And the other benefit of agentic commerce is issuers and merchants are going to have more data on transactions. They're going to have data on user intent. They're going to have more data to include in the dispute processes and all of those types of things.”
— Ryan McInerney, V earnings call - T3Prepared remarks· CEO· Product-embedded AI
“Visa is extraordinarily well positioned to win in agentic for 3 important reasons. Our network, security and trust. Our network has enormous scale, more than 175 million seller locations, 5 billion credentials in 200 countries and territories with nearly 14,500 financial institution clients who have opted in to using this network.”
— Ryan McInerney, V earnings call - T3Prepared remarks· CEO· Standalone AI product
“We recently launched Intelligent Commerce Connect, which acts as a network protocol and token vault agnostic on-ramp to agentic commerce for agent builders, merchants and enablers. Now while it's early, we are seeing growth in agentic shopping and the emergence of early agentic commerce, real transactions with Visa agentic tokens.”
— Ryan McInerney, V earnings callIntelligent Commerce Connect, Visa agentic tokens - T3Prepared remarks· CEO· Product-embedded AI
“Our team has been integrating new AI-enabled features across our suite of VAS solutions, including the recent release of 6 dispute resolution capabilities. In fact, across all of our services, client adoption has been the fastest among AI embedded services such as Smarter Stand-In Processing and Visa Provisioning Intelligence.”
— Ryan McInerney, V earnings callSmarter Stand-In Processing, Visa Provisioning Intelligence - T2Prepared remarks· CEO· Product-embedded AI
“With the AI landscape, we are seeing that Claude code and other agentic coding assistants will allow anyone to become a developer. It's that easy to work in simple command-style tools like the command line interface, or CLI. These agentic coding assistants are a great example of how we see AI and agentic commerce increasing economic growth as they enable anyone to bring their new business ideas to life.”
— Ryan McInerney, V earnings callVisa CLI - T2Q&A· CEO· Product-embedded AII wanted to follow up on the agentic topic and specifically in the area of agent-to-agent transactions.
“the limiting factor for agentic commerce is trust. I think when we all think about ourselves as buyers and we all think about ourselves having agents go out and transact on our behalf, we are going to fall back on payment methods that we, as users, trust.”
— Ryan McInerney, V earnings call - T2Prepared remarks· CEO· Product-embedded AI
“these services have durable competitive advantages as the vast majority are linked to transactions, cards and accounts, and they are only strengthened with AI, reinforcing their importance as a growth lever for years to come.”
— Ryan McInerney, V earnings call - T1Prepared remarks· CEO· Product-embedded AI
“AI and agentic commerce will expand our addressable market, and our efforts will accelerate Visa's long-term growth.”
— Ryan McInerney, V earnings call - T1Prepared remarks· CEO· Product-embedded AI
“We have transaction data at scale, and we will enhance that data with AI.”
— Ryan McInerney, V earnings call
What management wouldn’t quantify.
Analyst questions where management declined to share a specific number. The pattern of refusals is often as informative as the disclosures.
- No quantification of revenue directly attributable to AI-powered VAS products despite multiple analyst questions on VAS strength.
- No disclosure of AI-related R&D or capex spend.
- No headcount or talent investment figures disclosed for AI initiatives.
- Agentic commerce transaction volumes described as 'early' with no absolute figures provided.
- No disclosure of the number of clients using AI-embedded products such as Smarter Stand-In Processing or Visa Provisioning Intelligence.
- No ARR or revenue contribution disclosed for Intelligent Commerce Connect or Visa CLI proof-of-concept.
- Management did not quantify the revenue impact of the Visa Large Transaction Model despite citing up to 5x fraud value capture improvement.
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