On 10 September 2026, Visa, Mastercard and Ant International announced a collaboration that could become the most important infrastructure agreement in agentic payments so far: a shared Know-Your-Agent (KYA) interoperability framework. The announcement was made through BuildFin.ai, an industry platform convened by the Monetary Authority of Singapore. Its purpose is straightforward: allow an AI agent verified within one payment ecosystem to be recognised by others without repe

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India’s NPCI is preparing to let trusted AI agents make small UPI payments without transaction-by-transaction approval. For merchants, this is less a new checkout button than a new operating model for consent, risk and payment performance. Published 2 September 2026 | Quantum Payments India’s Unified Payments Interface is preparing for its next major transition: from a payment rail used by people to a payment rail increasingly operated by software. According to a Reuters excl