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…
Visa's Spring 2026 Biannual Threats Report identified nearly $1 billion in scam-related activity between July and December 2025, making scams the fastest-growing source of consumer payment fraud, with…
Visa open-sourced its Visa Vulnerability Agentic Harness (VVAH) under an Apache 2.0 license around June 10, 2026, after a collaboration with Anthropic's Project Glasswing uncovered more than 10,000 hi…
Visa has open-sourced part of its AI-powered cyber defence system after vulnerabilities exposed by Anthropic's Mythos AI model earlier this year, President of Technology Rajat Taneja told Reuters. Tan…
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…
Cardano has been added to the official x402 software kit, letting developers build apps and AI agents that pay for online services with $ADA or tokens issued on the network, the Cardano Foundation sai…
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…
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…
Visa reported completing "hundreds" of secure, agent-initiated transactions in a closed beta in December 2025, but projects "millions" of consumers will use AI agents to complete purchases by the 2026…
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 …
Circle's x402 Facilitator Service went live on September 16, 2026, processing USDC payments across Circle's Arc blockchain, Coinbase's Base, and Polygon PoS, the same day Arc's mainnet launched with B…