{"id":192107,"date":"2026-03-02T13:12:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T18:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/02\/mastercard-and-santander-mark-agentic-payment-milestone\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T13:15:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T18:15:13","slug":"mastercard-and-santander-mark-agentic-payment-milestone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/02\/mastercard-and-santander-mark-agentic-payment-milestone\/","title":{"rendered":"Mastercard and Santander Mark Agentic Payment Milestone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/news\/artificial-intelligence\/2026\/mastercard-santander-mark-agentic-payment-milestone\/\">Mastercard and Santander Mark Agentic Payment Milestone<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/news\/artificial-intelligence\/2026\/mastercard-santander-mark-agentic-payment-milestone\/\">https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/news\/artificial-intelligence\/2026\/mastercard-santander-mark-agentic-payment-milestone\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-02 13:12:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.pymnts.com\">www.pymnts.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mastercard and Santander executed Europe&#8217;s first live end-to-end payment using an artificial intelligence (AI) agent.<\/li>\n<li>This marks the first agentic payment within a regulated banking framework.<\/li>\n<li>The transaction utilized Mastercard&#8217;s Agent Pay, an AI-driven payments program introduced in the previous year.<\/li>\n<li>AI systems now have the capability to securely and transparently execute payments via existing networks while adhering to stringent security and privacy standards.<\/li>\n<li>Santander views AI as a transformative force for the future of payment solutions, emphasizing responsible innovation and consumer protection.<\/li>\n<li>Mastercard sees agentic AI as a major shift in work processes, necessitating secure frameworks to build high trust and confidence among participants.<\/li>\n<li>Mastercard positions its Agent Suite to address the growing demand for scalable, secure AI agent deployment, anticipating significant adoption in customer interactions and operations by 2030.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mastercard and Santander Mark Agentic Payment Milestone https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/news\/artificial-intelligence\/2026\/mastercard-santander-mark-agentic-payment-milestone\/ Publish Date: 2026-03-02 13:12:00 Source Domain: www.pymnts.com&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":192108,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Mastercard.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-192107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192107"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192107"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":192109,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192107\/revisions\/192109"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}