Ant Digital Technologies president Zhuoqun Bian warned at the Fortune Leaders Forum in Macau on Sept. 8 that financial institutions must extend "know your customer" compliance to "know your agent" as …
Mastercard announced a partnership with Alchemy to launch a consumer-facing agentic payments option that gives AI agents a virtual Mastercard with user-set spending caps, merchant restrictions, and op…
Ant International, the overseas affiliate of China's Ant Group, has begun a global roll-out of AI agents across its entire suite of financial services, which the company calls its largest-ever product…
Mastercard will unveil an agentic payment option later this week in partnership with startup Alchemy, which makes virtual cards for AI agents to use in e-commerce, allowing cardholders to pre-authoriz…
Ant International, Mastercard and Visa announced in September 2026 that they are jointly developing a shared Know Your Agent (KYA) interoperability framework to verify AI agents authorized to make pay…
Ant International open-sourced its Agentic Mobile Protocol (AMP) on GitHub on Friday, putting it forward as a potential global technical standard for AI agents to make payments through mobile wallets.…
Visa, Mastercard and Ant International announced a joint framework on September 9 called Know-Your-Agent (KYA) that lets their separate AI agent verification systems recognize each other, coordinated …
Ant International, Visa, and Mastercard's agentic commerce framework lacks a unified merchant-side integration standard, leaving three competing verification protocols — Visa's Trusted Agent Protocol,…
Ant International partnered with Visa and Mastercard to develop an interoperable "Know Your Agent" framework for verifying and monitoring AI agents that initiate payments, Ant International announced …
Visa, Mastercard, and Ant International, the global arm of China's Ant Group, announced a "know-your-agent (KYA) interoperability framework" this week to support agentic commerce operations. The three…
Ant International, Visa, and Mastercard announced a Know Your Agent (KYA) interoperability framework in São Paulo on September 10, 2026, targeting cross-network operator traceability, shared certifica…
Ant International, Visa and Mastercard have begun developing a Know-Your-Agent (KYA) interoperability framework for AI-driven payments, working through Singapore's BuildFin.ai platform convened by the…
Ant International, Mastercard and Visa launched an initiative on Thursday (Sep 10) to develop a Know-Your-Agent interoperability framework for identifying and verifying AI agents that make purchases o…
Ant International, Mastercard, and Visa launched a joint initiative on September 10, 2026 to build a common trust framework for AI agents that make purchases on behalf of consumers, covering agent ide…
Ant International, the Singapore-headquartered global arm of Jack Ma's fintech empire, closed a $1.2 billion Series A on July 21, 2026, backed by Ant Group and Alibaba Group, to fund cross-border paym…
Ant International, the overseas affiliate of Chinese fintech group Ant Group, has raised about $1.2 billion in a fresh equity round to fund its expansion into markets beyond China. The Singapore-based…
In the first half of 2026, major payment companies including Google, Mastercard, Visa, Stripe, American Express, Ant International, and Circle have shipped infrastructure for AI agents to handle payme…