The AI Corporation, a specialist in fuel and mobility payment solutions, has joined Visa’s ‘Ready for Fleet’ programme to fast-track availability of its offerings to fuel retailers, fleet operators and issuers worldwide.

The company’s flagship cloud-based platform, AIEazyFuel, will now support Visa Fleet 2.0, accelerating the delivery of secure and flexible fleet card operations.

Visa’s Ready for Fleet programme provides technology partners with the tools and validation necessary to ensure their solutions meet Visa’s functionality, integration and security standards.

AIEazyFuel is a fully managed, omnichannel card management and processing platform hosted within the Microsoft Azure cloud. It’s designed to simplify fleet card management and processing, making fuel card operations more efficient by supporting a complete range of issuing, acceptance, acquiring, switching, processing risk, and analytics functions. The scalable and secure payment solution uses the company’s AI and machine learning-driven Fraud Managed Services to assess transactions and identify fraud.

AIEazyFuel offers a hybrid payments system that the company says integrates “the strict controls of a closed-loop payments system with the acceptance benefits of an open-loop one, all within a single, PCI DSS compliant, white-labelled platform”.

Clients’ cards that are managed within the platform are accepted worldwide and can access a broader range of merchant networks, opening new revenue streams for issuers, in areas such as mobility spend, EV charging and other vehicle related services.

Piers Horak, chief executive of The AI Corporation, said: “Joining the Visa Ready for Fleet programme and aligning our AIEazyFuel platform with Visa Fleet 2.0 is a pivotal moment for AI. Access to Visa’s rigorous standards guarantees our solutions remain best-in-class for functionality, integration and security.

“This certification has empowered us to build truly modernised solutions, accelerating our moves into mobility and electric vehicle payments, mobile payments and comprehensive unified spend management for our global clients.”

Richard Campion, head of fleet & B2B Mobility, Europe at Visa, said: “Through the Visa Ready for Fleet programme, we’re building a network of collaborators who can offer a comprehensive range of solutions tailored to our Fleet & Mobility clients. We look forward to working with The AI Corporation; their experience in the fuel retail space, combined with Visa’s global network and data capabilities, provides a powerful foundation for scalable, modern fleet solutions.”