When AI agents become economic actors, what happens to money and the financial system?

AI agents acting autonomously in financial markets pose new challenges for regulation, payments, and monetary policy as their ability to transact at machine speed and scale upends existing assumptions. Industry players like Google, Coinbase, Visa, and Mastercard are developing protocols for agent payments, but which payment rails and forms of digital money will dominate remains undecided amid regulatory and market forces.

This Wire brief sits within Fusion42's coverage of Fintech.