Mastercard, Visa, Stripe, Alipay & Others Push Agentic AI Payments/Compliance

Alipay launched AI Wallet and Token Pay for agentic economy, processing 300M transactions — a major signal from China. Stripe Tempo + Agentic Commerce Protocol with OpenAI/Link; AEON $8M x402 settlement layer (50M merchants); Subotiz AI-native payments; Anthropic Claude integrations; Iridius compliance guardrails; Catena Labs $30M for AI-native bank with agent oversight. WaveSpeedAI case shows Stripe integration reducing fraud 80%. Visa $7B stablecoin settlement run rate, SWIFT building blockchain ledger with 30+ banks. Corporate treasuries increasing AI investment (56% >15% this year), with trust/auditability as key differentiators.