The Proxy Economy: AI Agents and the Payment Stack
- Date:May 14, 2025
- Author(s):
- James Wester
- Matthew Gaughan
- Report Details: 6 pages, 0 graphics
- Research Topic(s):
- Tech & Infrastructure
- PAID CONTENT
Overview
Agentic commerce is coming, with AI-driven agents projected to make buying decisions and complete transactions on behalf of consumers. The reports in this series, spanning several Javelin Strategy & Research Payments practices, set expectations for what’s on the way and advise players in payments on how to prepare.
Other reports in the series:
Agentic Commerce: The Payments Are Here, but Are the Agents Ready?
Agentic Commerce and Merchants: Get Ready for a New Reality—and Some Turbulence
Bots in the Back Office: Agentic AI and Commercial Payments
Fraud in the Age of Agentic Commerce
How Will Agentic Commerce Affect Consumer Credit?
Prepaid Is Positioned to Bridge Gaps in Agentic Commerce
Stablecoins, the Agentic Secret Sauce
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