Visa, Mastercard, Fiserv Join Agentic Payments Alliance
Visa (NYSE: V), Mastercard (NYSE: MA), and Fiserv (NASDAQ: FISV) have joined the Agentic Payments Alliance (APA), a coalition led by Rain to establish common standards for AI agent payments. The APA includes other major players like Circle, Solana Foundation, and Remitly, aiming to define governance frameworks before regulators intervene. The alliance seeks to create shared protocols so that autonomous AI agents can manage digital identities, loyalty programs, fraud detection, and machine-to-machine transactions using stablecoins. This effort addresses the fragmentation of early agentic commerce platforms by aligning traditional finance with blockchain-based systems for seamless interoperability. For Visa and Mastercard, this move ensures their continued relevance in a shifting payments landscape as they route AI agent transactions through their tokenized networks. Fiserv benefits from enabling its merchants to accept these new payment types without infrastructure overhauls.
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Topics: agentic commerce AI payments payments industry collaboration