FIDO Alliance launches new standards to secure AI agent interactions, enabling trusted authentication and payments in emerging agentic commerce ecosystems

As AI agents move from experimental tools to active participants in digital commerce, the question is no longer what they can do, but how they can be trusted to do it. 

For financial institutions, merchants and technology providers, this shift introduces a new layer of complexity around identity, authorisation and transaction integrity.

idoThe FIDO Alliance is positioning itself at the forefront of efforts to standardise how AI agents securely authenticate and transact on behalf of users.


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