18 June 2026 | 11 AM CET

Agentic Commerce:
The Rise of Autonomous Buyers

Digital commerce is entering a new phase: AI agents are no longer just assisting consumers, they are beginning to act on their behalf. Powered by large language models (LLMs), autonomous workflows, and emerging interoperability standards such as MCP and agent-to-agent protocols, AI systems can now search products, compare alternatives, negotiate with merchant services, and execute transactions with minimal human involvement.

This shift introduces a fundamental architectural change across the commerce ecosystem. E-commerce platforms, payment systems, fraud controls, digital identity frameworks, and customer authentication models were designed for human interaction. As autonomous agents increasingly become operational buyers, organizations must rethink how trust, authorization, payments, and merchant interactions are implemented in machine-mediated environments.

This webinar explores the rise of agentic commerce from a technology and financial systems perspective. We examine the end-to-end autonomous shopping journey, from discovery and comparison to negotiation, checkout, and post-purchase servicing, and analyze what changes when AI systems become active participants in commercial transactions.

The session also covers the implications for banks, payment providers, merchants, card networks, and identity platforms, including delegated payment authority, AI-native authentication, agent identity, fraud prevention, programmable payments, and API-first commerce infrastructure. Real-world initiatives from Visa, PayPal, and OpenAI will be discussed to illustrate how the industry is preparing for a future where AI systems participate directly in economic activity.

The webinar concludes with a strategic readiness framework and key technology questions financial institutions should be addressing as agentic commerce evolves from experimentation to infrastructure.