This Week In Digital Payment - AI-Driven Payment Solutions Emerge With PayOS's New Collaboration

PayOS has emerged to revolutionize the digital payment landscape by introducing a card-native payments infrastructure tailored for AI agents, in collaboration with Mastercard and Visa. This partnership aims to integrate advanced tokenization technologies with Visa's Intelligent Commerce platform, allowing developers to seamlessly incorporate payment functions such as checkout, billing, and money transfers into AI-driven workflows. Through this development, PayOS seeks to enhance agentic commerce by providing a streamlined and secure payment system that supports extensive use cases in the AI economy. With the backing of industry leaders, PayOS aims to unlock new possibilities for agent-driven transactions on a global scale.

• Mastercard (NYSE:MA) last closed at $559.39 up 2.3%, not far from its 52-week high.
• Visa (NYSE:V) last closed at $347.60 up 1.5%.

In other trading, ING Groep (ENXTAM:INGA) was trading firmly up 7.4% and finishing the session at €18.27, hovering around its 52-week high. On Friday, the company announced a share repurchase program aiming to align its CET1 ratio to around 10.76%. In the meantime, Block (NYSE:XYZ) softened, down 20.4% to finish the session at $46.53.

Mastercard's strategic initiatives in emerging payment technologies position it for significant market share expansion. Discover more in our detailed narrative on Mastercard's growth opportunities.

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• PayPal Holdings (NasdaqGS:PYPL) finished trading at $67.24 up 2.8%.
• SoFi Technologies (NasdaqGS:SOFI) finished trading at $12.70 up 1.5%.
• Nu Holdings (NYSE:NU) closed at $12.45 up 0.9%.

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• "PayOS Teams Up with Mastercard and Visa Intelligent Commerce, Emerges From Stealth to Power AI-Driven Payments" from PayOS on GlobeNewswire (published 30 April 2025)

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