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Mastercard Unveils Agent Pay, Pioneering Agentic Payments Technology to Power Commerce in the Age of AI

Mastercard · 2025

Press release

Mastercard's press release unveiling Agent Pay, a payments technology for AI agents. The companion cites it, with Google's AP2 and Coinbase's Agentic Wallets, for card networks and payment firms issuing credentials that let registered agents spend within limits their principals set. It documents payment rails in the habitat people built for agents.

Cited in
the companion paper (Companion §2)
Used for
Habitat construction; payment rails
Strand
The agent economy · Payment rails & agentic commerce

Cite

@misc{mastercard2025agentpay,
  title = {Mastercard Unveils Agent Pay, Pioneering Agentic Payments Technology to Power Commerce in the Age of AI},
  author = {Mastercard},
  year = {2025},
  howpublished = {Press release},
  url = {https://www.mastercard.com/news/press/2025/april/mastercard-unveils-agent-pay-pioneering-agentic-payments-technology-to-power-commerce-in-the-age-of-ai/},
}