{"id":233129,"date":"2026-06-17T18:59:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T22:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/17\/visa-and-mastercard-put-tokens-in-charge-of-ai-commerce\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T19:00:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T23:00:12","slug":"visa-and-mastercard-put-tokens-in-charge-of-ai-commerce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/17\/visa-and-mastercard-put-tokens-in-charge-of-ai-commerce\/","title":{"rendered":"Visa and Mastercard Put Tokens in Charge of AI Commerce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/news\/artificial-intelligence\/2026\/visa-and-mastercard-put-tokens-in-charge-of-ai-commerce\/\">Visa and Mastercard Put Tokens in Charge of AI Commerce<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/news\/artificial-intelligence\/2026\/visa-and-mastercard-put-tokens-in-charge-of-ai-commerce\/\">https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/news\/artificial-intelligence\/2026\/visa-and-mastercard-put-tokens-in-charge-of-ai-commerce\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-17 18:59:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.pymnts.com\">www.pymnts.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The race to build agentic commerce highlights the growing role of artificial intelligence (AI) assistants in automating shopping decisions for consumers.  <\/li>\n<li>A crucial layer in enabling this form of agentic commerce is token service providers (TSP), tasked with recognizing and authorizing AI agents to make purchases on behalf of consumers.<\/li>\n<li>Tokenization, traditionally seen as a fraud-reduction tool, is evolving to become a fundamental identity mechanism essential for verifying the legitimacy of AI agents in autonomous transactions.<\/li>\n<li>Consumer interest in agentic commerce is present, but there is significant concern around fraud and trustworthiness, which could be resolved by clearer fraud protection measures.<\/li>\n<li>TSPs play a pivotal role in creating a secure framework for agentic commerce by issuing and managing tokens that authorize AI agents to make purchases with predefined limits without exposing underlying payment details.<\/li>\n<li>Visa and Mastercard are leading the charge in establishing a trusted framework for autonomous transactions by developing mechanisms and partnerships to verify the origin and legitimacy of transactions from AI agents.<\/li>\n<li>The control over the authorization layer, which verifies transaction identities, is becoming a critical and potentially lucrative focus for companies aiming to facilitate and govern the expanding domain of agentic commerce.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Visa and Mastercard Put Tokens in Charge of AI Commerce https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/news\/artificial-intelligence\/2026\/visa-and-mastercard-put-tokens-in-charge-of-ai-commerce\/ Publish Date: 2026-06-17 18:59:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":233130,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/agentic-commerce-tokenization.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-233129","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\/233129"}],"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=233129"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":233131,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233129\/revisions\/233131"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}