Agentic Commerce: The Next Frontier in AI-Driven Transactions

What's Inside?

Introduction: What is Agentic Commerce?

Understand how AI agents are moving beyond recommendations to autonomously complete purchases, and why leading voices from payments and fintech industry are calling it a paradigm shift in commerce.

How agentic commerce is perceived‍

Explore industry investment momentum, mixed consumer sentiment around trust and data security in agentic commerce, and why B2B procurement and India are emerging as the most immediate opportunities.

How agentic commerce implementations work?

Walk through the seven-stage agentic transaction lifecycle, from intent to capture to dispute resolution, and examine how some of the leading payments industry entities have architected their implementations.

Key players and the competitive landscape

‍Map the full ecosystem, payment networks, technology platforms, Indian fintech infrastructure, and merchant-side enablers, and understand how each is staking their position.

Protocols and Open Standards

Discover the emerging standardization contest between Google's AP2, Trusted Agent Protocol, ACP, and UCP, and why the donation of AP2 to the FIDO Alliance signals a move toward interoperability over proprietary lock-in.

Payment authorization and security‍

Learn how tokenization, agent registration, spending controls, and the evolution toward a potential fourth authentication domain are redefining what payment authorization means when the human is not present.

Compliance and regulatory framework

Look out for how the CFPB, EU AI Act, UK CMA, and India's RBI and NPCI are each approaching agentic commerce regulation, and what compliance requirements organizations must address today.

Guardrails and Safeguards

‍Understand the practical that keeps autonomous transactions safe for consumers.

Learn how guardrails help control spending limits, avoid risks of agent authentication prompt injection, and enable real-time consent revocation.

The Road Ahead

See what mainstream agentic commerce actually looks like, and what needs to be solved before it gets there. Agent-to-agent commerce, voice-triggered purchases, and metaverse convergence are closer than you think.

Conclusion: Understand why agentic commerce is no longer a future concept but an operational reality, and what organizations across the commerce value chain must do to engage proactively and not skip this wave.

Explore how leading payment networks and fintechs have built agentic commerce, covering protocols, security, compliance, and what your organization needs to know.