Mastercard partners with OpenAI on AI agent payments
Mastercard disclosed during its third-quarter 2026 earnings call a partnership with OpenAI covering Agent Pay, payments, joint services growth and AI transformation.
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CEO Michael Miebach calls agentic commerce still in its 'early days', with volumes not significant but rising weekly. Mastercard relies on four products: Agent Pay, Verifiable Intent, Agentic Trust Intelligence and Agent Connect. Shopify is among the first deployments through Shop Pay. The group backs full tokenisation rather than one-time virtual card numbers, and expects holiday shopping to accelerate adoption. It also says Digital Risk Protection serves nearly 800 enterprise customers.
Source: The Paypers, published on November 3, 2026.