Ant International partners with Visa, Mastercard on developing AI payments
Why now
Thesis: AI payments standards could expand card volume
Catalyst to watch: Agentic commerce adoption
Main risk: Standards may not scale
Why it matters
Common standards for AI-agent payments could expand card-network transaction volume if agentic commerce scales, entrenching incumbents in a new payment channel.
Details
Visa, Mastercard and Ant International are working on common standards for AI-agent payments — including ways to verify and monitor their transactions.
Sources
- cnbc · 2026-09-10 00:00 UTC