𝗩𝗚𝗦 𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗼𝗻𝗹𝘆 𝗻𝗼𝗻-𝗣𝗦𝗣 𝗱𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗹𝘆 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗺𝗮𝗷𝗼𝗿 𝗰𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝗻𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀: 𝗩𝗶𝘀𝗮, 𝗠𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗰𝗮𝗿𝗱, 𝗔𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗗𝗶𝘀𝗰𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿. 💸 If you’re evaluating network token providers, this distinction is the difference between true payment orchestration and vendor lock-in. Most solutions route through a PSP, which introduces unnecessary latency, higher costs, and rigid dependencies. The @getVGS Difference: 🔓 Multi-Processor Flexibility: Use your tokens across any PSP in your stack—don’t let one provider hold your data hostage. ⚡ Ultra-Low Latency: Direct network connections eliminate "extra hops," speeding up transaction times when every millisecond counts. 📈 Higher Auth Rates: Real-time lifecycle management and cleaner data lead to fewer declines. 🔁 Total Portability: Your tokens stay with you as your payment architecture evolves. Why architecture matters: As network tokens become the foundation for fraud reduction and payment optimization, choosing a provider with direct access ensures you gain a competitive advantage—not a new dependency. Own your data. Own your routing. Own your growth. 🚀 🔗 Read the full breakdown ➡️ verygoodsecurity.com/blog/po… #NetworkTokens #PaymentInfrastructure #Fintech #VGS #Tokenization #AuthorizationRates #Payments

🇳🇱 Last week at @money2020 Europe in Amsterdam, @getVGS had the opportunity to join some of the brightest minds in fintech, payments, AI, and digital infrastructure to discuss what comes next for agentic commerce. 🤝 Together with @Nevermined_ai, we hosted an intimate dinner to discuss agentic commerce and payments, bringing together founders, investors, and infrastructure leaders for an open conversation about the future of machine-to-machine transactions. Some standout discussions included: 🤖 AI agents are moving from assistants to executing transactions on behalf of users and businesses. As a result, payment infrastructure must evolve to support autonomy without sacrificing trust. 🛡️ Controls matter as much as capability. Spend controls, dynamic authorization policies, and governance frameworks emerged as critical building blocks for safe agent-driven commerce. 🔐 Tokenization is foundational for payment acceptance. Merchants continue to converge around tokenization as a key enabler of secure payment experiences, helping organizations reduce PCI scope while increasing flexibility and resilience. 🙏 Thank you to everyone who joined us and contributed to the discussion. The excitement around AI is undeniable, but the conversations in Amsterdam made one thing clear: the real opportunity lies in building the trusted infrastructure that enables autonomous commerce to scale #Money2020 #Money2020Europe #Payments #Fintech #AgenticCommerce #AgenticPayments #VGS #Nevermined

📍Yesterday in San Francisco, we did something we don't often do: gather a select group of merchants and spend a full day digging deep into subscription strategy. The @getVGS Subscription Workshop, led by 20-year subscription and payments veteran and VGS’s Head of Payments Strategy, Melissa Shields, went straight to the details of recurring optimization and how to leave nothing on the table. A few moments that stuck with us: 🏗️ Is there an architecture for retention? YES. Melissa shared detailed subscription business models, testing structures, vaulting strategy, real-world credential impacts (and use cases), and mapping strategies for leveraging PSP and Network data to ensure you know ‘why’ your transactions are failing and how to solve for it- without exploding your core cost of payment. 🔁 Everyone wants a silver bullet or a how-to guide for failed payments. There isn't one, only years of actual experience layered with intelligent testing methodologies. The room held robust debate, sharing insights and detailed learnings on industry changes, pain points, and what's still out there to capture. CMSPI’s Robbie MacDiarmid, CPFPP, and CJ Brown put a bow on the session, sharing recent test insights on global CIT, MIT, and AIT performance. ⚖️ A healthy dose of perspective (and humor) was then provided by Marc Roth, who provided a look at the latest subscription laws and compliance requirements for merchants, some industry examples, and what to keep in mind for the year ahead. 🤖Finally, the team wrapped up the day walking through the details of how agentic channels and tokens are evolving, concluding with a fun round of 'test your agentic knowledge' trivia! 🙏 Huge thanks to the amazing roster of merchants who made it a packed house and a day we hope provided outcomes, not just talking points. #Payments #Subscriptions #CardOnFile #AgenticCommerce #PaymentTokenization #Fintech #VGS

What happens when AI agents become the primary shoppers? 🤖🛍️🤔 Join Melissa Shields, Head of Payments Strategy at VGS, who will be speaking at @LeadersPayments Summit 2026 in Nashville on June 26th about the $261B agentic commerce opportunity and how AI-driven purchasing is transforming payments, trust, and customer experiences. On stage with Melissa will be: 🔹 Chris Thompson, Director of Digital Payments, @united 🔹 Alx Block, Head of Payment & Risk Operations, @automattic Moderated by Steve Mott, Founder, BetterBuyDesign 📅 June 26, 2026 🕙 10:00–10:30 AM We look forward to hearing the discussion on the future of payments in agentic commerce with fellow industry leaders and innovators. 🚀 #PaymentsLeadersSummit #PLS2026 #AgenticCommerce #AgenticPayments #Payments #VGS

Great conversations in Napa this week at the @UBS Private Company FinTech Conference & Networking Event 🙌 @getVGS CEO Chuck You joined Jorge Armenta, Co-founder and CEO of @getonlane, and Colin Luce, CEO of @basistheory, for a panel discussion on Agentic Commerce moderated by Timothy E. Chiodo of @UBS. As AI-powered agents increasingly participate in transactions on behalf of consumers and businesses, the industry is entering an era that demands trusted infrastructure, secure data access, and seamless payment experiences. The discussion explored how fintech leaders are preparing for this shift and the opportunities ahead. Thank you to UBS for bringing together innovators and industry leaders for an engaging exchange of ideas. 🚀👏 #UBSFinTech #AgenticCommerce #AgenticPayments #FinTech #AI #DataSecurity #VGS #UBS

Not all payment vaults are created equal 🔐 A PSP vault and an independent token vault can both securely store payment credentials, but they yield very different outcomes in terms of processor flexibility, network token portability, outage resilience, and long-term merchant control. We created a simple comparison to highlight key differences between the two approaches. Swipe through the comparisons below 👇 Then read the full article from Austin Clark for a deeper dive into vault comparisons: verygoodsecurity.com/blog/po… #Payments #Tokenization #Vault #IndependentVault #MerchantPayments #VGS

Tomorrow at @money2020 Europe, @getVGS and @Nevermined_ai are bringing together founders, investors, and infrastructure leaders for an intimate dinner on Agentic Payments. As AI agents become capable of making decisions and executing transactions, the underlying payments infrastructure must evolve to support secure, scalable, machine-to-machine commerce. We'll explore: - Programmable spend controls - Real-time settlement - Tokenization and PCI compliance - Multi-provider orchestration - The infrastructure required to enable autonomous payments at machine scale This conversation goes beyond the hype and focuses on the rails that will power the next generation of agentic commerce. 📅 Tomorrow, June 3 at 7 pm 📍 Money20/20 Europe Space is limited: luma.com/a6pito95 #Money2020Europe #Money2020 #Payments #Fintech #AgenticCommerce #AgenticPayments #VGS #Nevermined

We're proud to celebrate our VP of Marketing & Growth, Brittany Eden, for being named one of @The_FMH's Top 30 Most Influential Fintech Marketers of 2026. 🎉 Brittany's leadership, vision, and relentless focus on driving growth have helped elevate VGS's brand, expand our market presence, and strengthen our connections with customers and partners across the fintech ecosystem. This recognition reflects the impact she continues to make, not only within our organization but across the broader fintech community. Congratulations, Brittany, on this well-deserved honor. We're excited to see what's next as you continue to shape the future of fintech marketing. 🚀 🔗 See the full list of honorees: fintechmarketinghub.com/most… #Top30FintechMarketers #FintechMarketing #MarketingLeadership #Fintech #GrowthMarketing #VGS

VGS is headed to Nashville next month, and we have a lot planned! 🎸 ✈️ 🗓️ We will be at @LeadersPayments Summit on June 24th-25th! Our team will be on-site and ready to talk all things payments, from tokenization and merchant-owned vaults to fraud prevention and the infrastructure powering modern commerce. 🍽️ Next up is our Payments Over Plates dinner on June 24th at 8:30 pm! No pitches, no decks, just payments over plates! 🔗 Register your interest for Payments Over Plates here: info.verygoodsecurity.com/pa… See you in Music City! 🎶 #VGS #PaymentsLeadersSummit #PLS #Payments #PaymentsEvents #Fintech

Are you sure the card you're charging belongs to the right cardholder? With VGS Account Validation, you can verify account ownership directly in your vault, giving you the interoperability to run checks across your entire payments stack without ever exposing sensitive data. ✅ Card Verification ✅ CVC Verification ✅ Address Verification Service (AVS) ✅ Account Name Inquiry (ANI) Fewer payment failures, less fraud, and full data security. All in one solution. 🔗 Learn more about VGS Account Validation at the link: verygoodsecurity.com/blog/po…

PSP Vault vs. Independent Token Vault 🔐 At first glance, both solve the same problem: securely storing payment credentials for card-on-file transactions. But over time, they create very different outcomes for merchants. The differences become most apparent as your business evolves. Those differences show up in areas like: 🏢 Ownership model ⚙️ Processor flexibility 🌐 Network token portability 🔀 Routing and forwarding 🔄 Migration complexity 📱 Wallet support 🛡️ Operational tradeoffs So how do you choose? 🤔 The right choice depends on where your business is today, and where your payment architecture needs to be in the next 3–5 years. Authored by VGS's very own Austin Clark, our latest blog breaks down the tradeoffs, operational considerations, and network token implications in more detail: lnkd.in/gBYhZ5az #Payments #Fintech #MerchantPayments #PaymentInfrastructure #TokenVaults #Vaulting #VGS

Cross-border payments in Europe are only as strong as the security layer beneath them. For businesses expanding across European markets, that means: 🔐 3DS support that meets regulatory expectations without adding friction 🛡️ Tokenized payment data that reduces fraud exposure at the source ⚡ Infrastructure that adapts to your stack, not the other way around VGS helps businesses build payment experiences that are secure by design, so trust becomes a competitive advantage across markets rather than an afterthought. Learn how we can help you with your 3DS strategy: ow.ly/VXJn50Z2SBY #CrossBorderPayments #Europe #3DS #Fintech #PaymentsInfrastructure #PaymentSecurity

VGS's Payments Over Plates dinner series is headed to Nashville next month! If you're a payments leader in town for the Payments Leaders' Summit or based in the area, join Melissa Shields, Philip MacLean, and Andy Contreras for an intimate, informal dinner with ~25 fellow payments nerds in downtown Nashville! No pitches, no decks...just payments over plates! 😋 🗓️ Wednesday, June 24th at 8:30 PM 📍 Downtown Nashville (location to be shared upon RSVP) 🔗 Register your interest here: ow.ly/cAn450Z2jwC #FintechLondon #PaymentsInnovation #VGS #Networking #PLS #payments

Agentic commerce is creating a protocol explosion: ACP, UCP, x402, MPP, browser agents, MCP pipelines, wallet-based flows, and more...The challenge isn’t choosing the “winning” protocol - it's enabling secure interoperability across all of them. @getVGS solves this with a universal translation layer that: • Vaults payment credentials securely • Tokenizes sensitive data once • Routes credentials across ecosystems in the required format • Keeps merchants protocol-agnostic The result: developers can build for the future of AI-driven commerce without exposing raw payment data or managing fragmented integrations. 🔗 Learn more about how VGS is the universal translation layer for agentic protocols in our latest article by Howard Xiao: ow.ly/O6on50Z1e7O #AgenticAI #PaymentsInfrastructure #AICommerce #Tokenization #VGS

VGS is headed to Money20/20 Europe in Amsterdam on June 2-4th! Our Head of Business Development in Europe, Damijan Pezdecik, will be on-site, ready to talk about everything impacting payments and fintech leaders in Europe, from agentic commerce to network tokens to 3DS! Reach out to Damijan directly or request a meeting with the VGS team here: ow.ly/epwP50YYqGI #VGS #Money2020Europe #Money2020 #payments #fintech

The next evolution of commerce may not happen in a browser - it may happen in a terminal. A new paradigm is emerging: Command-Line Commerce (CLC), where AI agents, APIs, and programmable payments enable software to transact autonomously. We’re moving from: “search and click” ➡️ “intent and execution” As AI agents begin making purchasing decisions on behalf of users and businesses, commerce infrastructure must become: ✔️ API-native ✔️ Machine-readable ✔️ Secure & programmable In our latest blog article, VGS's Sr. Director, Product Delivery, Travis Mottershead, explores: 🔹 What Command-Line Commerce is 🔹 Why stablecoins and tokenized credentials matter 🔹 How businesses should prepare for autonomous transactions 🔗 Read more: ow.ly/urOY50YXNAs #AI #Fintech #Payments #APIs #Stablecoins #AgenticAI

We're headed back to London this month for the Gaming Leaders' Summit! Why is this event so important to us? Let's break it down: Gaming companies operate in one of the most complex payment environments today, with: - High-risk transaction profiles - Complex and varied regulatory requirements across multiple jurisdictions - The need to balance seamless user experiences with robust fraud and compliance controls With @getVGS, gaming companies can: - Secure sensitive payment data with a PCI-compliant, universal vault - Operate across multiple PSPs and regions without losing control over payments data - Improve authorization rates and fraud prevention tactics with enhanced card data insights - Adapt quickly to regulatory change without re-architecting their whole payments stack In an industry where compliance, performance, and player experience are constantly in tension, VGS gives gaming companies the infrastructure to scale globally, seamlessly, without compromising on security or user experience. Can't make the event? No problem! See where the team will be next: ow.ly/RSZc50YVhYv #GLS #GamingLeadersSummit #PLS #payments #VGS

We are thrilled to highlight our partnership with Dyneti! 👏 By combining VGS's world-leading payments security infrastructure with Dyneti’s frictionless mobile card scanning technology, we’re helping businesses accelerate growth while minimizing risk.🚀 Together, we’re making it easier than ever for companies to: ✅ Secure sensitive payment data. ✅ Streamline the customer onboarding process. ✅ Achieve compliance without the headache. 🔗 Read more: ow.ly/MHcP50YTgb5 #DataSecurity #Fintech #Partnerships #Compliance #VGS #Dyneti

🚨AI and PCI compliance are on a collision course - and most companies aren’t ready. 🚨 As AI adoption accelerates across payments, fraud detection, and customer experiences, it’s fundamentally changing how sensitive cardholder data is accessed, processed, and stored. 👉 That raises a critical question: How do merchants maintain PCI DSS compliance in AI-driven environments? In the latest @getVGS blog post, Laura Furlong breaks down the key issues shaping AI and PCI compliance: • How AI systems expand PCI scope and increase audit complexity • The hidden risks of exposing cardholder data to LLMs and third-party models • Why legacy compliance approaches don’t work for AI-powered architectures • How tokenization, data vaulting, and isolation-first design reduce compliance burden The takeaway: AI doesn’t just introduce new risk; it changes the definition of your cardholder data environment. Forward-thinking companies are moving toward data-centric security models, where sensitive data is never exposed to AI systems in the first place. This approach not only strengthens security but also simplifies PCI compliance at scale. If you’re building or deploying AI in fintech, payments, or SaaS, understanding this shift is essential. :link: Read more: verygoodsecurity.com/blog/po… #AICompliance #PCIDSS #DataSecurity #Tokenization #Payments #Cybersecurity