The Race Is on to Keep AI Agents From Running Wild With Your Credit Cards

FIDO Alliance to Develop Standards for Trusted AI Agent Interactions

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr 28, 2026-

The Race Is on to Keep AI Agents From Running Wild With Your Credit Cards

AI agents may soon be buying your stuff for you. The FIDO Alliance has teamed up with Google and Mastercard to try to ensure that shopping in the near future isn't a complete disaster.

FIDO Alliance wants to keep AI agents from going rogue on online payments

AI agents are beginning to shop, log in, and complete tasks with little direct input. That shift is pushing the security industry to rethink how trust works when actions are carried out on a user’s behalf. The FIDO Alliance has announced a set of initiatives to build shared standards for these interactions, covering how AI agents authenticate, follow instructions, and carry out transactions. “AI agents are quickly becoming part of how people get…

FIDO Eyes Agentic Standards and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 4/28/26

The FIDO Alliance said it will develop interoperable standards for agentic interactions and commerce and has formed the Agentic Authentication Technical Working Group to oversee that effort. BlueSnap, a unit of Payroc, said it now provides local acquiring services in New Zealand. This enables BlueSnap to process payments through a domestic acquiring bank rather than route transactions across borders. Artemis, a design, sales, and financing syste…