Mastercard.
American multinational financial services corporation
Visa Mastercard Ant develop shared framework to verify AI agents
Visa, Mastercard and Ant International are formalizing a Know-Your-Agent interoperability framework to identify and monitor AI agents across card networks and wallets while preserving each network’s own verification processes, aiming to unlock scalable agentic payments projected to reach $3–5 trillion in global commerce by 2030. The debate centers on which party captures value as agent-powered transactions shift away from traditional rails, with pilots and open standards (including Ant’s Model Context Protocol) expanding in Asia and through industry platforms to reduce duplicate identity checks and speed time-to-market.
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About Mastercard
Mastercard Inc. is an American multinational payment card services corporation headquartered in Purchase, New York. It provides payment transaction processing and other related-payment services, including travel-related payments and bookings). Its principal business globally is to process payments between the banks of merchants and the card-issuing banks or credit unions of purchasers who use its branded debit, credit and prepaid cards to make purchases. Mastercard has been publicly traded since 2006.
Everything about Mastercard →- Country
- United States
- Headquarters
- Purchase
- Inception
- 1966, 1979
- Website
- https://www.mastercard.com/, https://www.mastercard.us/en-us.html, https://www.mastercard.com.au, https://sea.mastercard.com