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Mastercard convenes exec roundtable: agentic commerce scaling hinges on consumer and merchant trust
Mastercard held a New York roundtable with executives exploring how autonomous AI agents can drive commerce at scale. The consensus: trust frameworks for both buyer and seller sides are the bottleneck, not technology.
WHY IT MATTERS
Signals a major payment network is treating agentic UX (autonomous purchasing decisions) as infrastructure-ready but waiting for compliance and liability norms to mature before bank/fintech deployment.
Source: PYMNTS · 2026-09-16