AI Agents Turn Permission Into Payments’ New Control Point

Source excerpt · PYMNTS

Agentic commerce is creating a new transaction type before the payments industry has fully created the rules for accepting it. While payment stacks have become fine-tuned for transaction authorization, agentic commerce inserts a new question. Not, “should this transaction be authorized,” but; “was this machine authorized to make this decision?” Consumers already distinguish sharply between […] The…