Mastercard (NYSE: $MA) is pushing deeper into AI commerce with a new payments system designed to let autonomous agents move money across cards, bank accounts and stablecoins.
The company launched Agent Pay for Machines on Wednesday, framing the service as infrastructure for software that can buy services, settle small transactions and interact with other machines without a person initiating every payment. The product builds on Mastercard’s broader Agent Pay program and is aimed at high-frequency, low-value transactions that could happen continuously in the background of digital commerce.
The partner list shows how much of the product is being built around digital-asset infrastructure. Coinbase (NASDAQ: $COIN), Ripple…






