More than 30 industry leaders, including Adyen, Ant International, BVNK, Checkout.com, Cloudflare, Coinbase, Getnet by Santander, Global Payments, Lovable Labs Incorporated, OKX, Stripe and Tempo, are ...

Agent Pay for Machines is one of a slew of recent attempts from big companies to build payment networks optimized for AI.

This content has been selected, created and edited by the Finextra editorial team based upon its relevance and interest to our community. Mastercard says it expects a future where businesses create ...

Mastercard (NYSE:MA) has launched Agent Pay for Machines (AP4M), a platform for secure payments between AI agents. The AP4M ...

In June 2026, Mastercard announced several developments including the launch of Agent Pay for Machines to support secure, automated machine-driven payments, a maintained quarterly dividend of US$0.87 ...

AI agent payments gained open governance July 14, 2026: the Linux Foundation launched the x402 Foundation with 40 members ...

Mastercard (NYSE:MA) has recently introduced a payment solution designed specifically for the emerging ecosystem of AI-driven commerce. The offering, known as Agent Pay for Machines or AP4M, aims to ...

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The industry must establish clear permissions, audit trails, dispute resolution, and liability frameworks to gain consumer ...

The rise of AI has created new ways to buy and sell goods and services. Now it’s requiring a new class of payments. Mastercard envisions a future where businesses create services for AI agents to buy ...

Mastercard is diving deeper into AI payments. The card giant announced on Wednesday that it was launching a protocol to let AI actors more easily pay each other. Called Agent Pay for Machines, the new ...

The rise of AI has created new ways to buy and sell goods and services. Now it’s requiring a new class of payments.