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Visa Announces Enhanced Capabilities That Can Bring Trust and Control to the Future of Business Payments

Business Wire•21/10/2026•07:00 ET
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Key Highlights

  • ➤SESA 2.0 uses AI-driven analysis to identify supplier opportunities and estimate commercial-card growth
  • ➤SESA has uncovered more than $600 billion in potential cardable spend since launch
  • ➤Visa Commercial Fraud Solutions validates suppliers, authenticates users and applies transaction-level payment controls
  • ➤Virtual Authentication and Supplier Validation are in pilot, with general availability planned for 2027
  • ➤Visa, BILL and Billtrust launched a live pilot for AI-agent invoice payments

Expert Statements

Darren Parslow, Global head of Visa Commercial Solutions

“Businesses are moving quickly to automate the work around payments, from identifying supplier opportunities to approving invoices and executing transactions”

Darren Parslow, Global head of Visa Commercial Solutions

“These capabilities are designed to help them do that with the data, security and controls they need - whether they are growing commercial card acceptance, helping protect virtual-card payments from fraud, or testing how trusted AI agents can act on their behalf.”

Visa Announces Enhanced Capabilities That Can Bring Trust and Control to the Future of Business Payments

New offerings include enhanced supplier-spend analytics, virtual-card fraud prevention capabilities and a live pilot enabling trusted AI agents to complete B2B invoice payments

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