Agentic commerce trust, payment and policy standards

The gap between AI-shopping growth and tiny autonomous-transaction volume remains pronounced. Visa’s distinction between AI shopping and agentic payments, consumer reluctance to delegate wallets, EMVCo’s Intent Services consultation, Mastercard’s Verifiable Intent and Agent Connect, and protocol-agnostic infrastructure from IXOPAY and others are intensifying focus on consent, persistent intent, identity, authorization, reversibility, privacy, auditability, provenance, fraud controls, and liability.