Thredd’s McCarthy Says Payments Will Govern the Agentic Enterprise
What's happening
Thredd CEO Jim McCarthy argues in a new PYMNTS eBook, "Building the Agent-Ready Payments Enterprise," that the agentic enterprise will be defined not by how much autonomy AI gets but by how well that autonomy is governed. The same eBook series highlights practical questions firms face, including which decisions AI agents may make versus which still require a human, and urges narrow mandates and explicit operating rules for agents. Contributors cited include Maverick Payments President and COO Ben Griefer and Flagright Co-Founder and CTO Madhu G. Nadig, all stressing governance, liability clarity, and safe delegation of authority in payments.
Why it's trending
Because companies are moving from copilots to autonomous agents, and payments teams now need rules, liability frameworks, and hiring changes to manage who makes critical calls.
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- The "who's liable when the AI agent messes up" question is turning into an actual job
I've noticed a few threads here over the last couple months (the liability one, the audit narrative one) that keep circling the same question without landing on an answer: when an agent makes the call, whose name is actually on it. I work on the Fintechbits/Finjobsly team and looked into this because it's stopped being a policy debate and started being a hiring line item. FIS and Anthropic's new F
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The agentic enterprise won’t be defined by how much autonomy it hands to AI, but by how well it governs that autonomy, Thredd CEO Jim McCarthy writes in a new PYMNTS eBook, “Building the Agent-Ready Payments Enterprise.” The interesting question about the agentic enterprise is not whether agents can act. They clearly can. It’s whether […] The post Thredd’s McCarthy Says Payments Will Govern
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