Why Mastercard’s UAE launch marks the beginning of a structural shift in payments, governance, and market competition. A New Economic Actor Enters the Payments System The introduction of Mastercard’s Agent Pay in the UAE represents more than a milestone in payments innovation — it may be the first real example of autonomous machine actors participating […]

The way we move money is changing. Not overnight, and not with loud fanfare. But steadily—underneath the surface of day-to-day transactions, under the rules of regulators, and across the servers of financial infrastructure providers.