{
  "id": 6737864,
  "title": "Ant International to let AI agents shop across AlipayHK, Starryblu, KakaoPay and Toss",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/11/ant-international-to-let-ai-agents-shop-across-alipayhk-starryblu",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-09-11T09:30:05.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "SCMP Business",
    "slug": "scmp-business",
    "url": "https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3367183/ant-international-let-ai-agents-shop-across-alipayhk-starryblu-kakaopay-and-toss"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Ant International, the overseas branch of Chinese fintech behemoth Ant Group, is embarking on a new frontier in mobile payments by making its AI agents capable of shopping across various digital wallets. The company unveiled its Agentic Mobile Protocol (AMP) on Friday, opening it up for public use on GitHub, positioning it as a potential worldwide technical standard for AI-driven secure payments. AMP was built upon Ant International's Alipay+ cross-border network, which currently links to 10 major Asian digital wallets, catering to a massive 1.5 billion consumer accounts.\n\nThe launch of AMP is set to \"enable agents to enter existing mobile payment systems as trusted actors\", allowing platforms like Alipay China, AlipayHK in Hong Kong, Starryblu in Singapore, and KakaoPay or Toss in South Korea to speed up their AI initiatives, according to Ant International's chief innovation officer, Yang Jiang-ming. Beyond Asia, Ant International recently partnered with Visa and Mastercard to develop a \"know-your-agent\" (KYA) framework, which aims to establish standardized identity verification for AI agents globally across card networks, digital wallets, and online marketplaces.\n\nThese moves come as tech companies are increasingly concentrating on autonomous AI agents that can manage end-to-end commercial tasks. At a recent Shanghai conference, Ant Group CEO Cyril Han Xinyi mentioned that many Chinese merchants are struggling to adapt their services for AI agents, thereby limiting their involvement in the emerging agent economy. Ant International, spun off in 2024, aims to construct the globe's most extensive agentic AI payment network. Its Alipay+ network, introduced in 2020, has connected over 150 million merchants to more than 2 billion user accounts across Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and Latin America.\n\nTo tackle consumer privacy and security risks associated with automated spending, Ant International highlighted that AMP features an \"AgentSafePay\" function. This tool provides merchants with a money-back guarantee to cover potential losses from agent-initiated transactions. Furthermore, the protocol sets \"clear boundaries of permissions\" to ensure consumers maintain ultimate control over their accounts, the company stated.",
  "summary": "Ant International, the overseas affiliate of Chinese fintech giant Ant Group, is making a major bid to power the next phase of mobile payments: letting autonomous artificial intelligence agents handle your electronic wallet to make purchases. The company on Friday open-sourced its Agentic Mobile Protocol (AMP) on GitHub, effectively putting it forward as a potential global technical standard for…",
  "key_points": [
    "Ant International's AI agents can shop across AlipayHK, Starryblu, KakaoPay, and Toss.",
    "AMP built on Alipay+ network linking 10 Asian digital wallets to 1.5 billion accounts.",
    "AMP features AgentSafePay for consumer privacy and security in automated spending."
  ],
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      {
        "outlet": "SCMP Tech",
        "title": "Ant International to let AI agents shop across AlipayHK, Starryblu, KakaoPay and Toss",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/11/ant-international-to-let-ai-agents-shop-across-alipayhk-starryblu-6737884",
        "published": "2026-09-11T09:30:05.000Z"
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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."
}