{"id":238476,"date":"2026-06-29T04:03:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T08:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/29\/why-its-time-to-know-your-agent\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T05:35:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T09:35:15","slug":"why-its-time-to-know-your-agent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/29\/why-its-time-to-know-your-agent\/","title":{"rendered":"Why It\u2019s Time to Know Your Agent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/news\/artificial-intelligence\/2026\/why-its-time-to-know-your-agent\/\">Why It\u2019s Time to Know Your Agent<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/news\/artificial-intelligence\/2026\/why-its-time-to-know-your-agent\/\">https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/news\/artificial-intelligence\/2026\/why-its-time-to-know-your-agent\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-29 04:03:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.pymnts.com\">www.pymnts.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The rapid growth of AI agents in commerce, projected to generate $236 billion by 2034, raises significant identity and trust issues as there is no infrastructure to verify if the agents are legitimate and authorized.<\/li>\n<li>A fundamental challenge for agentic commerce is establishing &#8220;identity certainty&#8221; when human oversight is absent, a problem that underlies the risks of fraud in AI-driven transactions.<\/li>\n<li>The Know Your Agent (KYA) framework, modeled on the Know Your Customer model, is proposed to verify who an AI agent is, what it&#8217;s authorized to do, maintain accountability, and monitor behavior to prevent fraud.<\/li>\n<li>NIST is launching the AI Agent Standards Initiative to develop frameworks to ensure agent reliability, interoperability, and security, highlighting the necessity of standards to secure the agent economy.<\/li>\n<li>The IMF emphasizes that regulators need to shift from Know Your Customer (KYC) to Know Your Agent (KYA) standards to address the unique fraud risks posed by AI in financial systems, necessitating a robust governance framework for AI-driven critical digital infrastructure.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why It\u2019s Time to Know Your Agent https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/news\/artificial-intelligence\/2026\/why-its-time-to-know-your-agent\/ Publish Date: 2026-06-29 04:03:00 Source Domain: www.pymnts.com&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":238477,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/SB5-know-your-agent-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238476"}],"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=238476"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":238478,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238476\/revisions\/238478"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}