Visa has announced the launch of the Visa Threat Intelligence Platform (VTIP), a new solution designed to help financial institutions detect and respond to cyber threats that can lead to fraud and financial loss.
Announced on 2 July 2026, the platform brings together cyber and payments intelligence and uses the same cybersecurity capabilities Visa applies to protect its own global network. Visa said the aim is to help institutions identify threats earlier and reduce downstream fraud risk.
Fraud is often the result of earlier cyber incidents, including data compromise, credential theft or system exploitation before a transaction takes place. According to Visa, cyberattacks that expose payment credentials can come from across the payments ecosystem, including merchants, issuers, acquirers, processors and service providers.
Walter Lironi, Senior Vice President, Head of Value Added Services for Central and Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa at Visa, said cyberattacks are becoming more frequent, more targeted and harder to detect early. He said VTIP helps financial institutions bring cyber and payments intelligence together in one place to reduce risk before it turns into fraud.
Visa said VTIP is built on its global cyber defense capabilities, with the company blocking about 90 million cyberattacks and 11 million phishing emails each month across more than 200 countries. The platform was developed by Visa’s defense operations team and tested internally across Visa’s global payments network before being extended to clients.
The platform includes threat intelligence, vulnerability intelligence, brand intelligence, digital identity intelligence and financial intelligence. Visa said these tools are designed to help security, fraud and risk teams focus on intelligence tied directly to payments risk.
Visa also said it has invested over $13 billion in technology over the past five years to strengthen security and reduce fraud. The company added that Gartner Consulting gave Visa its highest rating of 4.9 among peer companies for the overall maturity of its cybersecurity program.
