Mastercard demonstrates tech that helps agents pay for digital services
What's happening
Mastercard demonstrated a feature called Agent Pay for Machines at Cloudflare Connect that helps AI agents pay for digital services while keeping people and businesses in control. The wider context includes Mastercard naming Extend as a partner to bring spend and expense management tools to issuing banks in the U.S. and Canada, addressing SMBs that spend about 20 hours a week on accounting tasks. Similar moves are happening across payments: Visa is piloting agentic payments with BILL and Billtrust to let AI agents initiate and complete buyer invoice payments end-to-end through supplier portals.
Why it's trending
Agent-enabled payments are rising as card networks and fintechs push tools to let AI agents act on behalf of businesses while preserving human oversight.
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If AI agents are going to buy software for your company, don't assume they'll need a human to approve every click, networks like Mastercard are building payments that let agents pay while keeping control centralized.
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- Mastercard demonstrates tech that helps agents pay for digital services
At Cloudflare Connect, Mastercard is showing how Agent Pay for Machines helps AI agents pay for digital services while keeping people and businesses in control.
FinextraOct 20 - Visa Tests AI Agents for Supplier Payments
Manual reviews and billing cycles have long tied up liquidity in supplier payments. Visa is developing a platform that uses agentic artificial intelligence to automate business-to-business transactions. With help from BILL and Billtrust, Visa conducted a live pilot in which AI agents completed invoice payments through supplier portals. The process begins with an agent from […] The post Visa
PaymentsJournalOct 20 - Visa pilots AI agent payments between buyer and supplier platforms
Visa has joined forces with Bill and Billtrust to launch the first live pilot to enable trusted AI agents to initiate and complete approved buyer invoice payments end-to-end through supplier portals.
FinextraOct 20
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