Corporate treasury, payables and delegated procurement
Company agents may seek payment terms, optimize cash deployment, authorize permitted procure-to-pay tasks and increase demands on corporate banking APIs.
Executive question
How will our business customers want to instruct and supervise agent-managed money?
What to measure
- Corporate agent payment volume (observable)
- Approval chains and exception rates
- Liquidity forecasting and cash visibility
Relevant products and standards
Mastercard's agentic payments program using Agentic Tokens. Announced Apr 2025; enabled for US cardholders by late 2025; live test transactions with 17 Latin American issuers and processors (Mar 2026).
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Visa's program for agent-initiated card payments: agent tokens, the Trusted Agent Protocol and the Agentic Ready issuer program. Live in the US and Europe; expanding in Asia-Pacific and Latin America.
Relevant examples, not documented integrations, completeness, certification or endorsement. Listed alphabetically.
Evidence and current limits
Strong financial logic; customer uptake must be measured, not assumed.
Research candidate — reviewer approval required