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Global payments network pioneering verifiable-intent tokens and passkeys for AI-agent payments.

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📋About Mastercard

Updated September 16, 2026

Mastercard is a global payments-technology company that connects consumers, merchants, banks, and governments across more than 200 countries. Founded in 1966 and headquartered in Purchase, New York, it has expanded from card processing into cyber, identity, and data services. In 2026 it launched Agent Pay and its Agent Suite — "Agentic Tokens," biometric passkeys, and a tamper-proof "Verifiable Intent" record — to let AI agents transact with a provable record of user authorization, making Mastercard an early builder of trust infrastructure for autonomous commerce.

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Agentic tokens, passkeys, and a verifiable-intent record that let AI agents transact with proof of user authorization.

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