Three different regions made their movements this month to reduce dependence on the two global companies that process most of the world’s card payments. On the surface, they may look unrelated, but together, a pattern emerges where governments and central banks build various types of alternative payment rails instead of relying on Visa and Mastercard.
Although Visa, Mastercard, SWIFT, and other payment infrastructure providers have not announced firm migration deadlines, governments are beginning to establish them. The U.S. federal government’s goal of transitioning critical cryptographic systems by around 2030 is widely viewed as an important benchmark that could influence planning across the broader financial services ecosystem, including payment networks, PSPs, […]
An AI payment agent is software, usually built on a large language model, that can complete a purchase or transfer funds on a person’s or business’s behalf without a human clicking “buy” for each transaction. This is distinct from an AI shopping assistant, which searches, compares, and recommends products but hands the final checkout step […]
The race to build the payment infrastructure of the AI-agent economy is entering a new phase, with global payment networks and technology companies competing to define how machines will identify, authorize and execute transactions.
Sunrate and Mastercard have released a joint white paper, Beyond Automation: Defining Agentic Global Payments, at the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) in Shanghai.
Payment technology company Worldline and banking group ING said they have completed what the companies describe as Europe’s first live end-to-end agentic payment transaction in a production environment using the Mastercard network.
After the successful Brazil deployment, Juspay is rolling out Click to Pay functionality globally due to the Mastercard Engage partner program.
Just as people, AI agents have much more possibilities to fulfil their potential if they have money to back their actions. Without the ability to transact, all the search and analysis agentic systems perform remain on theoretical level. To empower AI agents with more practical tasks, they need agentic payment mechanisms that are already emerging […]
Mastercard and Rabobank have completed the first payment in the Netherlands initiated and executed by an AI agent.
In France, the CB network is reportedly striving to become the next payment sovereignty frontier as officials warn against overreliance on foreign payment methods, such as Visa and Mastercard.
Social institutions, welfare organisations and municipalities will benefit from a collaboration between Hakisa and Beyond by RS2, launching integrated digital card-based expense management solution today.
A practical checklist for navigating VAMP, 3DS2, and Compelling Evidence 3.0 — the three Visa and Mastercard frameworks now shaping payment compliance across card-not-present transactions.
Mastercard news reveals a strategic pivot from traditional payment rails and A2A systems toward AI‑driven, agentic payments. The firm’s snowball of agentic AI transaction launches, spanning India, South Korea, Latin America, and the position of the company in EU payment sovereignty debate shows how Mastercard is trying to fill the niche of a future orchestrator […]
As OTPs become irrelevant in India starting tomorrow due to RBI new payment security policies, Razorpay, one of the local market leaders in digital payment processing, is introducing regulation compliant biometric authentication for card payments, in partnership with Mastercard and Visa.
Bangkok, Thailand: Money20/20, the world’s leading fintech show and the place where money does business, today announced 250 confirmed speakers from a total of 39 countries taking their stages at Money20/20 Asia happening in Bangkok on April 21–23, 2026 at the Queen Sirikit National Convention Center (QSNCC).
Two landmark expansions from Mastercard and Airwallex signal a new era for cross-border B2B payments: one deepening China’s financial corridors, the other mounting a billion-dollar advance on European incumbents.
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