Visa, Mastercard, Ant partner on Know-Your-Agent framework

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Visa, Mastercard, Ant partner on Know-Your-Agent framework

Global payment networks Visa, Mastercard, and Ant International have announced a joint initiative to develop an interoperable "Know-Your-Agent" (KYA) framework designed to verify autonomous AI agents participating in digital commerce. By harmonizing proprietary protocols—including Visa's Trusted Agent Protocol, Mastercard's Verifiable Intent, and Ant International's Agentic Mobile Protocol—the framework introduces shared security certifications, cross-network traceability, and transaction-level intent authorization. This unified standard aims to allow AI agents to transact safely across diverse merchant platforms, payment rails, and digital wallets without fragmented, per-ecosystem onboarding.

// ANALYSIS

Traditional KYC was built for humans; KYA establishes the critical security and authorization rails necessary before AI agents begin autonomously moving trillions of dollars through the global economy. Unifying competing protocols into a single cross-network standard removes friction from agentic commerce by eliminating redundant re-verification across platforms. Cryptographically binding buyer intent to agent actions mitigates fraud while solidifying legacy payment networks as the indispensable trust and settlement layer for the agentic web.

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agentagentic-commercevisamastercardant-internationalpaymentsfintechkyasecurity

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2026-09-11

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2026-09-10

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Visa, Mastercard, Ant partner on Know-Your-Agent framework