Visa and OpenAI have announced a partnership which sees Visa’s payment network directly into OpenAI’s AI agents, allowing these agents to initiate secure transactions on behalf of users.

Mastercard also launched new agentic capabilities this week. Agent Pay for Machines (AP4M) is Mastercard’s infrastructure for high-speed, automated payments between AI agents and services. Instead of traditional person-initiated transactions, AP4M enables agents to execute continuous, programmatic payments - including tiny fractions of a cent - at machine speed.

And Coinbase announced a new tool that lets users automate cryptocurrency trades with Agents.

Keeping up to date with the latest releases and what this all might mean for product teams is difficult so in this latest Deep Dive I explore what product teams need to know about these new agentic payment technologies and features - and what the latest data and reports tells us about consumers attitudes to agentic payments: departmentofproduct.sub…