Mastercard expands Agent Pay as card networks and Stripe build competing agent protocols
On 9 October Mastercard announced an expansion of Agent Pay with new trust and intelligence services for agentic commerce. Visa's Trusted Agent Protocol, Mastercard Agent Pay, Stripe's MPP and Google's AP2 are developing in parallel, and independent comparisons are being drawn up.
Who is affected and how
- fintech company
- Payment products must decide which agent protocols to support and how to verify an agent's identity.
- banking professional
- Card issuers must work out how to identify and authenticate agent-initiated transactions.
Sources
- Mastercard rolls out trust and intelligence services for agentic commercefinextra.com · Oct 9, 2026
- Mastercard Adds Trust, Intelligence Services to Agentic Payments Programfinance.yahoo.com · Oct 10, 2026
- Mastercard Adds Trust, Intelligence Tools to Agent Pay — Renascencerenascence.io · Oct 10, 2026
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