Mastercard links up with Alchemy to offer agentic shopping option (MA:NYSE)

Mastercard Is Giving AI Agents Virtual Cards to Handle Your Shopping

Through a new venture, agentic commerce goes a step further while safety questions plague the industry.

Mastercard links up with Alchemy to offer agentic shopping option (MA:NYSE)

Mastercard and Alchemy launch AgentPay + AgentCard to enable safer agentic AI shopping with virtual cards, limits, and user controls.

AgentCard Gives AI Agents Their Own Identity. That Is the Point.

Alchemy’s integration of AgentCard with Mastercard Agent Pay establishes a dedicated identity layer for autonomous software. By provisioning each agent with a unique email address, phone number, stablecoin wallet, and tokenized payment credentials, Alchemy is attempting to treat AI agents as distinct, verifiable entities rather than mere extensions of a user’s existing account. This is […]

Mastercard Says Consumer Choice at the Center of Agent Pay

Mastercard U.S. Co-President Chiro Aikat expects trust, loyalty, ease of use and control to determine the adoption of agentic commerce.