Antom is bringing AI agents to the checkout by launching a payment system that supports both cards and digital wallets.

The move makes Antom one of the first partners in Asia Pacific to work with Mastercard and Visa on card-based agentic payments.

The new solution is designed to help AI agents handle real-world transactions more easily.

By covering a wide range of payment options, from digital wallets to bank cards, it gives users more flexibility while adding safeguards to reduce fraud and strengthen transparency.

Built on the Model Context Protocol, the platform lets payments flow naturally through conversations with AI agents.

That means purchases can be confirmed directly in chat, or made through pre-authorised transactions such as spending limits or scheduled flash sales. Antom has also made the system open-source on GitHub.

One of its key features is EasySafePay, which streamlines wallet-based payments by allowing users to connect their digital wallets directly at checkout instead of being redirected to outside apps.

The feature is backed by multi-party computation-based AI risk management and device-level security to block phishing, fraud, identity misuse, and account takeovers.

Antom says the framework meets global PCI Security Standards and ties every transaction to verifiable credentials that record user intent.

This provides end-to-end traceability so disputes can be resolved through privacy-computing-based credential queries without exposing personal data.

In collaboration with Mastercard’s Agent Pay and Visa’s Intelligent Commerce, Antom will also pilot tokenised card payments for AI agents, combining authentication and transaction controls to make the process more secure and personalised.

Antom, a merchant payment and digitisation services provider under Ant International, said the launch reflects its broader push to support developers, financial institutions, and merchants as they adapt to AI-driven commerce.

“Agentic payment is a foundational step in allowing AI agents to generate real value in our everyday life. The rise of agentic payment calls for rethinking how payment systems are designed.

We look forward to co-building the protocols and frameworks with partners across the financial, tech and commerce sectors to ensure agentic payments are smooth and reliable.”

said Gary Liu, General Manager of Antom, Ant International.

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