Mastercard prepares agentic commerce platform for a future where AI agents make payments

The company is working with Coinbase, Stripe and other companies to build trusted payment systems for AI-driven commerce.

Mastercard (MA) is betting that AI agents will soon become active participants in the economy and wants its payments network to sit at the center of that shift.

The payments giant on Tuesday unveiled Agent Pay for Machines (AP4M), a service enabling AI agents and software…