EPAA and HSBC Launch APAC Working Group on Agentic Payments
The Emerging Payments Association Asia (EPAA), in partnership with HSBC as a founding member, has launched an AI & Agentic Payments Working Group for the Asia Pacific region. The initiative aims to bring together banks, payment networks, fintechs, and technology platforms to develop standards and frameworks for agentic commerce, where AI agents initiate payments on behalf of users. The group will address unresolved issues such as liability when an AI agent exceeds its mandate, cross-border identification and authentication of agents, fraud monitoring challenges, and dispute handling. It will develop shared standards for agent identity, authentication, and authorization, as well as trust and liability frameworks. The working group will also coordinate with regulators across ASEAN and APEC, with formal policy paper recommendations expected by November 2027. EPAA CEO Camilla Bullock emphasized that organizations helping build these frameworks now will shape agentic commerce in APAC for the next decade.
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