Mastercard CEO Michael Miebach said AI-powered bots may soon be spending money on behalf of consumers, as the company prepares for agentic commerce and rolls out secure 'Agent Pay' to enable such tran…
OKX has upgraded its OKX Card rewards program across the European Economic Area, offering a 50% rebate on subscriptions like Netflix, ChatGPT, and Claude, capped at €10 per month and paid in USDG stab…
At a Cisco-hosted executive gathering at the McLaren Technology Centre, leaders concluded that the hardest AI challenges are human, not technical, focusing on trust and talent. Deloitte's Tom Harris c…
Rain, a stablecoin payments infrastructure provider, launched the Agentic Payments Alliance (APA) with founding members Visa, Mastercard, Circle, Solana, and Remitly to develop standards for AI-agent-…
Cloudflare announced Cloudflare Wallets and cloudflare.pay on August 4, 2026, giving AI agents programmable, two-tier wallets with spending caps and verifiable identities, built on the x402 protocol. …
Rain launched the Agentic Payments Alliance with more than 25 founding members including Visa, Mastercard, Solana, Avalanche, Circle, Fireblocks, and Chainalysis to establish standards for AI agent tr…
Fireblocks, a digital asset infrastructure platform that has secured over $14 trillion in transactions, joined the Agentic Payments Alliance (APA) as a founding member on August 18, alongside Visa, Ma…
AI agents have initiated 14 million transfers through the x402 protocol over the past 30 days, with the broader ecosystem processing 75 million transactions and $24 million in volume, according to the…
Visa's Agentic Ready certification program, launched after a July 2, 2026, live agentic payment transaction in Germany by Worldline, ING, and Visa, aims to standardize issuer-layer readiness for agent…
A developer's analysis of AI agent payment disputes concludes that consumer protection depends on the payment method, with credit cards offering stronger protections than debit cards under US regulati…
Fintechs including Stripe, Ramp, and Brex are issuing virtual cards with per-transaction and per-merchant-category limits designed for AI agents, repurposing authorization holds as real-time circuit b…
Mercury launched Agent Cards on August 12, enabling AI agents to retrieve dedicated virtual-card credentials through its API or CLI and make online purchases within administrator-set limits. Mercury's…
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon has personally called the heads of more than 40 major U.S. companies to join an expanded Alliance for Critical Infrastructure, a group founded with Mastercard and Berksh…
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon is leading a cross-industry coalition to address AI risks to U.S. critical infrastructure, with over 40 companies from finance, energy, telecoms, and transportation expr…
Mastercard is hiring an AI Engineer for its Global Business Services Center in Pune, India, to design and implement AI and Generative AI solutions using LLMs, Agentic AI frameworks, and RAG architectu…
INTERPOL's African Cyberthreat Assessment Report 2026, released on August 3, found that AI is linked to 55% of reported cyber incidents in Africa, with losses surging from $192 million in 2024 to $484…
Cloudflare launched Cloudflare Wallets on August 4, enabling AI agents to hold and spend money autonomously via the x402 protocol, with handle reservations now open and full funding features coming in…
Cloudflare launched cloudflare.id, a persistent identity tool and wallet that lets AI agents verify their identity and make payments, with transactions settling in USDC on Coinbase's Base layer-2 bloc…
AI has made fraud cheaper to attempt while detection costs have barely fallen, breaking the assumption that both scale together, according to an analysis of fraud tools used by small merchants on plat…
Authoryze, a new payment-control platform, enables AI agents to make purchases across payment rails while enforcing spending limits, approvals, merchant rules, and audit trails. The service issues sin…