Topic

Payment authentication

Methods for establishing who authorised a card transaction, including passkeys, tokenisation and network-level identification of the party that initiated the payment.

Current clusters

invest2 publishers

An AI agent books and pays for a coffee tasting on a live Danske Bank card

Mastercard's Agent Pay has now cleared three national-first payments at European incumbent issuers in six months, while PYMNTS Intelligence research shows consumer interest in delegating spending authority falling as AI use rises.

Publishers:crowdfundinsider.compymnts.com

Reality

Evidence58
Adoption28
Hype gap+30
Incentives82
Confidence64