Agentic commerce is steadily rewiring how digital transactions occur. Instead of shoppers manually navigating screens, entering credentials and approving each step, intelligent software agents are beginning to select products, optimise pricing and initiate payment on the user’s behalf.

In that environment, the long-maligned guest checkout flow is gaining fresh relevance—not as a stopgap, but as a structurally efficient payment model.


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The Defiant: Mastercard and Google Team Up to Build Trust for AI-Powered Shopping

Mastercard has unveiled Verifiable Intent, a new open, standards-based trust framework co-developed with Google, designed…

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PYMNTS: Mastercard Unveils Open Standard to Verify AI Agent Transactions

Every time an AI agent makes a purchase, three questions hang over the transaction. Did…

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FinExtra: Fido Alliance sets sights on Latin America

As a largely mobile-first region, there is widespread innovation, especially in payments. At the same…

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