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FIDO Alliance Forms Agentic Commerce Working Groups; Stripe Extends Link to AI Agents

Issue 21April 27 – May 3, 2026Synthesised from 5 sources

Edited by Reviewed against primary sources

The FIDO AllianceThe industry consortium that develops open authentication standards; 250-plus member organisations including Google, Apple, and Microsoft. launched two working groups for agentic commerce on April 28, accepting Google’s Agent Payments Protocol v0.2 (AP2Google's Agent Payments Protocol — a draft open standard defining how AI agents initiate payment flows on a user's behalf.) and Mastercard’s Verifiable IntentMastercard's framework that creates a tamper-resistant cryptographic record of what a consumer authorised an agent to do. framework as founding contributions 1. An Agentic Authentication Technical Working Group — chaired by CVS Health, Google, and OpenAI — will define how AI agents authenticate and act on behalf of users. A separate Payments Technical Working Group, chaired by Mastercard and Visa, will produce specifications for agent-initiated transactions; 60-plus organisations committed at launch. AP2 v0.2 added “Human Not Present” flows, enabling agents to complete transactions without per-task user approval. Mastercard’s Verifiable Intent uses selective-disclosure cryptography to create a tamper-resistant record of what a consumer authorised; Google and Mastercard open-sourced both specifications alongside the announcement 1. Stripe extended Link — its consumer wallet with 250 million users — to AI agents on April 29 2. Agents gain OAuthA widely-used open standard that lets a user grant an app or agent specific, time-limited permissions without sharing credentials.-based access (a standardised permission flow) and request one-time payment credentials per task, with the consumer approving each request.

Google originally published AP2 in September 2025 with 60 partners (2025-w38); FIDO’s acceptance converts it from a bilateral network proposal into a candidate open standard with formal balloting. Stripe’s Link extension builds on the Agentic Commerce Suite (launched December 2025, 2025-w50) and the ACP co-developed with OpenAI (September 2025, 2025-w40). Link now targets personal AI agents as a distribution channel, distinct from the merchant-deployed shopping tools those earlier launches enabled. Visa’s agent-payment testing programme for issuers expanded to 85-plus partners in Asia Pacific and Latin America 4, six weeks after its European launch with Barclays, HSBC UK, and Nationwide (2026-w11). Mastercard’s Q1 2026 earnings disclosed Mastercard Agent Pay is now enabled across nearly all its cards globally 3, a milestone first disclosed in the earnings call, not a prior product announcement.

Stripe disclosed a Google partnership at Sessions 2026 enabling merchant checkout inside Gemini and AI Mode via the Agentic Commerce Suite 5, extending to Wix, BigCommerce, and WooCommerce merchants. Google activated direct shopping inside AI Mode in February 2026 (2026-w07) and Ulta Beauty launched Gemini-powered UCP checkout the week before this issue (2026-w17). Merchants on Wix, BigCommerce, WooCommerce, and Stripe-native platforms gain access to Google’s AI shopping surfaces without direct integration work with Google. All three Mastercard-named Agent Pay partners 3 now operate distinct live AI shopping channels. Those channels are Gemini, Copilot Checkout (launched January 2026, 2026-w02), and ChatGPT Shopping Research (launched November 2025, 2025-w48).

FIDO’s entry into agentic commerce standards brings a certification infrastructure and 850-plus member organisations that the prior standards bodies lacked. Both the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF, formed December 2025, 2025-w50) and the UCP Tech Council (expanded to ten members in April 2026, 2026-w17) are newer coalitions without FIDO’s formal balloting process. Mastercard and Visa chair FIDO’s Payments Technical Working Group — the same card networks that published the first agentic payment network protocols. Visa published the Visa Trusted Agent Protocol in October 2025 (2025-w42); Mastercard Agent Pay launched in April 2025 (2025-w18). Four distinct standards bodies now have active agentic commerce working groups: AAIF, UCP Tech Council, OpenID Foundation (2026-w09), and FIDO Alliance.

Events this issue

5 events
Payments
launch

Mastercard Q1 results indicate payments are going agentic

Mastercard Q1 2026 earnings disclosed Agent Pay is now enabled across nearly all cards globally.

Q1 2026 earnings provide the first quantified disclosure of Agent Pay's card-coverage footprint, one year after launch (2025-w18-payments-mastercard-agent-pay) and seven months after the developer-tools expansion (2025-w37-payments-mastercard-agent-pay-expansion). Near-universal global card coverage subsumes the Citi and US Bank live-issuance milestone (2025-w44-payments-mastercard-agent-pay-live-us), the PayPal wallet integration (2025-w44-payments-mastercard-paypal-integration), the Australian transaction (2026-w05-pilots-mastercard-australia-first-agentic-payment), and Santander's European first (2026-w10-pilots-santander-mastercard-europe-first-payment) within a single audited financial disclosure. The figure provides the empirical anchor for McKinsey's $3-5 trillion sizing (2025-w42-aeo-mckinsey-agentic-commerce-study) and Shopify's Q1 AI traffic disclosures (2026-w19-aeo-shopify-q1-2026-ai-traffic), all covering the same January-to-March 2026 quarter. The disclosure is the first earnings-call confirmation of agent payments at global-card-portfolio scale and the second earnings-call data point on the agentic commerce shift alongside Shopify.

  1. Payment Expert
Payments
launch

Link gains agent-access APIs allowing agents to request spend approval, generate one-time credentials, and pay via Stripe's network without exposing the user's underlying card details.

Link's agent APIs add a wallet-level credential primitive to the Stripe agentic stack, operating alongside the merchant-side Agentic Commerce Suite (2025-w50-payments-stripe-agentic-commerce-suite) and the consumer-side ACP launched with OpenAI (2025-w40-payments-stripe-openai-acp-instant-checkout). The one-time credential model parallels Mastercard's Agentic Tokens (2025-w18-payments-mastercard-agent-pay) and Visa's Trusted Agent Protocol credentials (2025-w42-payments-visa-trusted-agent-protocol), with the spend-approval primitive borrowing from Google AP2's Mandate framing (2025-w38-standards-google-ap2-protocol). The release is the same week as Stripe's Gemini and AI Mode integration (2026-w18-aeo-stripe-google-gemini-checkout) and the FIDO Agentic Auth working group formation (2026-w18-standards-fido-agentic-working-groups), placing Stripe across the wallet, AI-surface, and authentication layers of the agent payments stack. The announcement names spend-approval limits, one-time card generation, and tokenisation as the three primitives of Link's agent-access tier.

  1. TechCrunch
AEO
launch

Stripe Brings Merchant Checkout to Google's AI Apps

Stripe's Agentic Commerce Suite enables merchant checkout inside Google Gemini and AI Mode.

The integration places Stripe's Agentic Commerce Suite (2025-w50-payments-stripe-agentic-commerce-suite) inside Google's Gemini and AI Mode surfaces, extending the AI Mode shopping expansion (2026-w07-aeo-google-ai-mode-shopping-expansion) with a processor-grade checkout. Stripe now operates checkout across ChatGPT via the Agentic Commerce Protocol (2025-w40-payments-stripe-openai-acp-instant-checkout), Microsoft Copilot (2026-w02-payments-microsoft-copilot-checkout), and Google Gemini, covering the three largest US AI consumer surfaces in a single processor. The launch coincides with Stripe Link's agent APIs (2026-w18-payments-stripe-link-agents) and Stripe's seat on the Universal Commerce Protocol Tech Council (2026-w17-standards-ucp-tech-council-expansion). Ulta Beauty's same-month Gemini checkout (2026-w17-pilots-ulta-beauty-google-gemini-checkout) is the first live retailer flow using this integration. The integration uses Shared Payment Tokens introduced with ACP and operates inside the AI Mode Direct Offers and Business Agent surfaces that shipped in February (2026-w07-aeo-google-ai-mode-shopping-expansion).

  1. PYMNTS
Payments
launch

Visa Announces Global Expansion of Agentic Ready Program

Visa expanded Agentic Ready to 85+ partners in Asia Pacific and Latin America, following 20+ live European partners.

The 85+ partner expansion is Visa's largest single geographic increase for Agentic Ready, building on the Europe launch (2026-w11-payments-visa-agentic-ready-europe) and the closed-beta volume milestone (2025-w51-payments-visa-secure-ai-transactions-milestone). Asia Pacific coverage complements Mastercard's Australian first authenticated agent payment (2026-w05-pilots-mastercard-australia-first-agentic-payment), placing both major card networks in the same regional production set within ten weeks. Latin America inclusion is the first agentic-payments expansion into that region in this archive. The programme runs in parallel with Visa's Intelligent Commerce Connect (2026-w15-payments-visa-intelligent-commerce-connect) as the protocol-agnostic acceptance layer and the Trusted Agent Protocol (2025-w42-payments-visa-trusted-agent-protocol) as the underlying credential model. The 85+ partner number is the largest single regional-expansion partner count in the Payments lane.

  1. Visa
Standards
spec

FIDO Alliance to Develop Standards for Trusted AI Agent Interactions

FIDO Alliance formed Agentic Auth TWG backed by Google AP2 and Mastercard Verifiable Intent; 60+ orgs committed.

The Agentic Auth Technical Working Group is the first FIDO-led standards body scoped specifically to AI agents, extending FIDO2 and passkey infrastructure into agent authentication. Google AP2 (2025-w38-standards-google-ap2-protocol) and Mastercard Verifiable Intent contribute the protocol-level inputs, paralleling the OpenID Foundation's AI identity whitepaper (2025-w41-identity-openid-foundation-ai-whitepaper) and the OpenID4VP self-certification programme (2026-w09-identity-openid-vc-self-certification). The 60+ committed organisations span identity vendors, browser makers, and payment networks, structurally echoing the Linux Foundation AAIF formation (2025-w50-standards-linux-foundation-aaif) and the UCP Tech Council expansion (2026-w17-standards-ucp-tech-council-expansion). FIDO becomes the third multi-stakeholder governance body for agentic infrastructure formed in this archive, occupying the authentication layer. The working group's outputs feed into the Identity Linking capability Google added to UCP at I/O 2026 (2026-w21-standards-google-ucp-gml).

  1. FIDO Alliance