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Agentic Commerce and AI Payments

Mastercard Inc · 2026-09-21 · Importance 31 · Surprise 42

Mastercard helped Denmark’s Danske Bank complete what the companies described as a Denmark-first agentic payments transaction on September 21, 2026. The transaction used Mastercard’s Agent Pay technology to enable an artificial-intelligence agent to make both the purchase and payment. The AI agent acted on behalf of a Danske Bank customer, demonstrating Mastercard’s expansion of agentic payment capabilities through a banking partner.

Key facts

• Using Mastercard's Agent Pay, Danske was able to complete a transaction in which an artificial intelligence (AI) agent made both the purchase and payment on a customers' behalf. source
• Mastercard said it has helped Denmark's Danske Bank reach an agentic payments milestone. source