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1. Mastercard Agent Pay comes to Shop Pay, using agentic tokens to keep card details private

   A card network and commerce platform wiring up agent payments.

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   ExpandCollapseMastercard Agent Pay comes to Shop Pay, using agentic tokens to keep card details private

   Mastercard says 'agents are now shopping': Agent Pay uses agentic tokens so card details aren't handed to agents, and Shopify's Shop Pay is using it to bring more secure checkout to agentic commerce. It quotes a Shopify post; no volume figures are given.

2. Mastercard Q3'26: revenue $9.8B up 14%, adj. EPS $5.31; management highlights agentic commerce

   A payments giant puts agentic commerce in its earnings story.

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   ExpandCollapseMastercard Q3'26: revenue $9.8B up 14%, adj. EPS $5.31; management highlights agentic commerce

   Wall St Engine summarized Mastercard's Q3'26: revenue $9.8B (+14%, vs. $9.65B est.), adj. EPS $5.31 (+21%), adj. operating margin 60.5%. Value-added services +19%, cross-border volume +11%, 3.8B cards issued. Management cited advancing agentic commerce and a Global Money Platform via BVNK. Check the official release for figures.

3. Mintive launches with $11M to control what AI agents can access, do and spend, with audit trails

   Dedicated tooling for the permissions and audit step that blocks finance agents.

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   ExpandCollapseMintive launches with $11M to control what AI agents can access, do and spend, with audit trails

   Wall St Engine relays that Mintive announced $11M in total funding, led in its latest round by Cowboy Ventures. It gives each agent its own identity and permissions; companies approve tools, disable risky actions, set budgets, and get prompt-injection checks and audit trails. It says Modern Treasury deployed a bank-operations agent in under three weeks, cutting a four-hour task to minutes (company-reported).

4. IATA payments forum agentic payments panel: Moca and Visa on verifying the human behind the agent

   Agent-payment identity schemes reach industry-standard discussions.

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   ExpandCollapseIATA payments forum agentic payments panel: Moca and Visa on verifying the human behind the agent

   Moca Network says it joined Visa on an agentic payments panel at IATA's Payment Services Forum 2026 in Macao. Its view: agentic commerce rests on trust—merchants need a real human behind the agent, customers need privacy, brands need to keep the relationship. Its AIR identity layer lets users delegate verification to agents while merchants verify via Visa's Trusted Agent Protocol, using credentials rather than handing personal data to agent servers. Company-reported.