Know-Your-Agent: The Essential $5 Trillion Framework With One Big Problem

A card payment being made, representing the Know-Your-Agent framework for verifying AI shopping agents

Know-Your-Agent, or KYA, became the newest acronym in payments this week, and the ambition behind it is genuinely large. On September 9 and 10, 2026, Visa, Mastercard, and Ant International announced they are jointly developing a framework to let their separate AI agent verification systems recognize and trust each other. The companies cite a projection … Read more