{
  "id": 6600028,
  "title": "Visa and Mastercard Team With Ant on Know Your Agent Framework",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/10/visa-and-mastercard-team-with-ant-on-know-your-agent-framework",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-09-10T14:04:15.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "PYMNTS",
    "slug": "pymnts",
    "url": "https://www.pymnts.com/cybersecurity/2026/visa-mastercard-team-with-ant-know-your-agent-framework/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Ant International, Visa, and Mastercard have joined forces to create a Know Your Agent (KYA) interoperability framework, according to a press release issued on September 9. The collaboration aims to simplify the onboarding and identification of AI agents across networks, digital wallet ecosystems, and marketplaces. The release states that AI agents are expected to handle $3 trillion to $5 trillion in global consumer commerce by 2030.\n\nEach of the three companies already employs its own protocol: Visa utilizes the Trusted Agent Protocol, Mastercard has Verifiable Intent, and Ant International has the Agentic Mobile Protocol. Now, they plan to explore common principles for an interoperable KYA framework. This initiative could streamline agentic payment transactions for service providers, agent platforms, and marketplaces, all while upholding \"robust trust guardrails.\"\n\nThe release explains that the KYA framework will enable agents to benefit from shared trust signals across the payment ecosystem, reducing integration complexity and duplicative agent identity verification efforts. This, in turn, will cut down on time-to-market and lower integration costs for new agentic services. Ant International's Chief Innovation Officer, Jiang-Ming Yang, expressed enthusiasm for expanding collaboration as the industry leverages richer signals such as capabilities, behavior, execution performance, and risk data to strengthen trust and simplify transactions for clients and customers.",
  "summary": "Ant International is working with Visa and Mastercard to develop a know your agent (KYA) interoperability framework, according to a Wednesday (Sept. 9) press release. The effort is designed to help card networks, digital wallet ecosystems, agent platforms and marketplaces streamline artificial intelligence agent onboarding and identification across networks, per the release. “AI agents are […]…",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}