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Visa Releases MPP Card Spec — Agents Can Now Pay With Cards.

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Visa extended MPP to its global card network with an SDK including tokenization, authentication, and agent identity verification. A separate Visa CLI lets AI agents execute card payments from the command line without developers storing API keys. Autonomous agents now have a native, secure path into the $16T+ card payment rail. PYMNTS

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