Who’s writing the rules for agent payments

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U.S.-linked wallets account for just over 88% of tracked AI model payments, dwarfing China’s 0.1% share, according to new Chainalysis research.

At Sibos 2026, Bottomline’s Natasha Lapierre reveals how banks can future-proof payments using agentic AI, orchestration, and digital assets.

At Sibos 2026, Coinbase’s Yuga Cohler talks about how new agentic protocols and secure infrastructure, built in collaboration with AWS, will power the future of autonomous AI payments.

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Today, Mastercard announced an expansion of Agent Pay, its agentic payments program, with new trust and intelligence services that provide greater context for AI-initiated transactions.

At Sibos 2026, Temenos’ Kaue Tozzi reveals how banks can leverage tokenized money and agentic security to master programmable payments.

As AI agents evolve from answering questions to spending real money, investors and tech giants are scrambling to control the financial networks powering machine-driven commerce.

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Cleverbridge, a managed global commerce platform for software and technology companies, today announced that it completed France's first Passkey-authenticated agentic payment in a live checkout, in a pilot with Visa and Revolut announced earlier this month.

Kredete, the financial technology platform serving emerging-market and diaspora communities, today announced its acquisition of Gravv, an agentic stablecoin infrastructure platform that connects banks, blockchain networks, and local payment rails for real-time global money moveme

The asset manager sees payments as the nearer-term opportunity, while markets for computing capacity remain at an early stage

Mastercard, Flybits and Rogers Bank today announced Canada’s first successful deployment of a landmark agentic commerce transaction involving an AI-powered commerce platform, card issuer and payments network, demonstrating how AI-powered shopping experiences can prioritize consum

A group of six global banks, including Bank of America and NatWest, has put together a set of principles designed to address concerns about scams, fraud and data privacy in agentic commerce.

Alchemy, the leading AI developer and infrastructure platform for the onchain economy, today announced that AgentCard will support Mastercard payment credentials through an integration with Mastercard Agent Pay, giving developers a simple way to build AI agents that can safely co

Bank payment company GoCardless has processed the first agentic account-to-account transaction in the UK, an AI-driven donation on its website for Trussell, the anti-poverty charity and community of food banks.

The official x402 kit now includes Cardano tools for apps and AI agents to pay with ADA and other network tokens, though the facilitator has so far only been tested on pre-production.

Mastercard and Danske Bank have completed a payment in which an AI agent, acting on behalf of a consumer, carried out both the purchase and the payment.

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Nexi, the European PayTech, and ReFiBuy, the leading Agentic Commerce Optimization (ACO) platform, today announced a partnership to help European merchants remain competitive as consumers increasingly turn to AI to research and compare products.

Mastercard and Trip.com have joined forces to showcase AI powered booking experiences for the travel sector. Powered by Mastercard’s Agent Suite for Merchants and in partnership with Network International, the organizations are showcasing how consumers will be able to search, boo

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PayNearMe, the fintech company pioneering Payment Experience Management (PEM), today announced that it has acquired the technology assets and hired the key employees of Marr Labs, an AI company that develops agentic solutions to automate voice, messaging and workflows in complex,

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Worldline [Euronext: WLN], a European leader in payment services, today becomes one of the first in Europe to launch a payment handler for the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP), an open standard for agentic commerce co-developed by Google and industry partners.

Sokin, the global financial platform powering how businesses transact, manage and optimize money in an agentic world, has connected its licensed payment infrastructure to customers' AI tools, releasing a Model Context Protocol (MCP) connector.

French payments provider Worldline has become one of the first European firms to facilitate payments via agentic AI.

Polish mobile payment network Blik has run its first agentic payment transaction, under which a user authorised an agent to search for a specific product and pay for it when it became available.

Author: Maren Solberg

While consumers are increasingly using AI across the shopping journey, only 23% of US consumers trust GenAI to handle payment transactions on their behalf, according to new Visa research.

IXOPAY, a leader in payment infrastructure enabling fluid commerce, today announced the launch of the IXOPAY Agentic Suite, a flexible set of tools designed to help merchants prepare for both new agentic buying experiences and the growing role of AI in payment operations.

L&T Finance Ltd. (LTF), one of the leading Non-Banking Financial Companies (NBFCs) in the country, announced a partnership with Pine Labs Ltd., a leading global payments technology company, to integrate Agentic Storefront into the L&T Finance PLANET App at the Global Fintech Fest

Meta has rolled out a personal AI agent capable of performing a multitide of tasks, including checkout and payments.

Revolut and Visa have carried out the first passkey-authenticated agentic card payment in France.

AEON, the settlement layer built for the AI economy, has launched Agentic Checkout, enabling AI agents to autonomously shop, check out, and pay across e-commerce platforms such as Shopify and Amazon.

A Claude shopping agent leaves payments as the final frontier in the agentic commerce build out. Ant...

Global payments technology company CONCRYT has deployed agentic AI across its live payment operations, moving the technology beyond a chatbot interface and into the day-to-day monitoring of its gateway.

Ask a payments team how much agentic commerce volume they processed last month and most cannot answe...

New research on agentic commerce is being read as an alarm bell across the merchant and payments lan...

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