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Issuer-Sovereign Agentic Payments

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 23, 2026 · UTC

AI agents are beginning to make real payments. Current approaches let an agent pay by relying on a credential provider that, in the approaches deployed today, typically sits outside the cardholder's bank. The spending rules are then enforced by the card network or that provider, and not by the bank itself. This leaves the issuing bank, which carries the financial risk, with little direct control at the moment a payment happens. This paper describes Issuer-Sovereign Agentic Payments, a method that keeps that control with the issuer. The cardholder approves a spending rule once, and the bank's o

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