Visa launched a new platform for developers in the payments industry on Monday. Called Visa Next, it includes a set of open APIs in beta, with a suite of tools and documentation. It's designed to allow third-party applications to create their own digital Visa cards and build and manage new services for Visa cards.
A press release provided a list of actions that Visa Next APIs can perform. These actions range from making new digital card accounts on demand and tokenizing accounts for ecommerce and mobile wallets, to configuring rules around digital card use and card sharing.