Six global banks — Bank of America, Capital One, ING, NatWest, ASB Bank, and Commonwealth Bank of Australia — published a September 22 paper, "Building Trust in Agentic Commerce," laying out principle…
Qualcomm confirmed on Sept. 24 that it extended its licensing agreement with Apple starting April 1, 2027, the same day the current agreement was set to expire, ending years of speculation that Apple …
Skyfire won the Startup Pitch session "Technologies Boosting Revenue and Conversion" at Groceryshop 2026, earning the highest scores from a judging panel that included Harshad Agashe of Albertsons, De…
Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon used the Snapdragon Summit 2026 keynote in Maui to outline how on-device AI agents could eventually spend users' money, with agents repeatedly checking in for confirmation …
A developer argues that AI agents need dedicated payment infrastructure, comparing three custody models: agents holding private keys (fast but exploitable), multi-sig with human approvals (secure but …
Federal Reserve Vice Chair of Supervision Michelle Bowman is working to secure the banking system against AI-related risks, including a partnership with Visa and Mastercard to guard against cyberattac…
Amazon has blocked Meta's Muse AI agent from shopping on its site, showing users a pop-up notice that "Continued access by an unauthorized AI agent violates Amazon's Conditions of Use," according to G…
Only about 7% of companies are generating measurable value from artificial intelligence, according to a new Fast Company report in collaboration with Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) that surveyed 380 …
The Federal Reserve is expanding its oversight of how US banks use artificial intelligence to defend against cyber threats, with vice chair of supervision Michelle Bowman saying on May 1 that "we regu…
Circle launched Arc, a Layer-1 blockchain built for stablecoins and AI agents, on September 16, with Chief Product and Technology Officer Nikhil Chandhok saying the goal is not to pull activity from E…
Circle launched the Arc blockchain and full-stack platform on Sept. 16, a product co-founder and CEO Jeremy Allaire called the "most consequential major platform launch" in the company's history, with…
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 …
Europe has live end-to-end agentic payments running across more than 30 banks, with Santander, Mastercard, ING, and Worldline executing transactions and ING, Worldline, and Visa completing an agentic …
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…
Alchemy integrated its AgentCard identity and payments platform with Mastercard Agent Pay, giving each AI agent a unique email address, phone number, stablecoin wallet, and tokenized payment credentia…
Mastercard has joined Visa in allowing AI bots to make purchases on behalf of consumers, according to The Wall Street Journal. The move comes as payment giants brace for a new era of AI-driven shoppin…
A new wave of autonomous AI agents is driving interest in AI-to-AI payment infrastructure, with the IMF noting in April 2026 that agentic AI could shift payments from human-initiated instructions towa…
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…
Alchemy announced on September 17 that it added Mastercard Agent Pay support to AgentCard, its identity and payments product for AI agents, provisioning agents with one-time-use tokenized Mastercard c…
Only 3% of transactions currently involve AI agents even though 132 million U.S. adults have used AI to assist in a retail purchase, according to PYMNTS Intelligence, as merchants face more than five …