Visa, Mastercard, Ant International Join Forces: AI Agent Payments Also Need an 'ID Card'

Beating AI News Flash: Ant International, Visa, and Mastercard have announced a collaboration to advance KYA (Know Your Agent) mutual recognition. KYA can be understood as providing "identity verification" for AI Agents: confirming who it is, whom it represents, and then letting payment networks determine whether it can be trusted.

The three companies aim to connect this authentication system. In the future, once an Agent completes verification within one system, it can also have its relevant identity and trust information recognized when entering other payment networks, without needing to register and verify from scratch at every one.