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6 Agentic Payment Protocols. No Standard Yet

Agentic payment protocol standards UnionPay unveiled something called the Agentic Payment Open Protocol on July 17, at the opening of the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai. By our count there are now at least six competing frameworks for letting an AI agent pay for something on your behalf, launched by card networks, technology platforms and payment processors within about eighteen months of each other. Every one of.

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