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Mastercard Holds Flat as Alchemy Gives AI Agents Spending Controls
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Fusion42 · 19 September 2026 · Fusion42 review
Mastercard and Alchemy launched AgentCard, a product giving AI agents controlled single-use Mastercard credentials to enable autonomous online purchases with spending limits and merchant restrictions, aiming to underpin AI-driven commerce without Mastercard building shopping agents itself.
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You must treat Mastercard’s new agent-payments as an emerging channel for online purchases that could reshape how customers let AI handle spending. Developers integrating AI bots gain a clear path to embed payments with guardrails, so test your products against this move now.
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