Mastercard's AP4M just launched the financial nervous system for AI agents. Here's who wins the agentic commerce stack and who gets bypassed.
The agentic commerce stack and the stocks positioned to capture it
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Amazon‘s (AMZN) Rufus can now buy things for you. OpenAI‘s ChatGPT has a checkout built in. Walmart‘s (WMT) Sparky is moving from recommendations to transactions.
One by one, the biggest companies in the world are crossing the same line: from AI that advises to AI that acts.
Now Mastercard (MA) has built the road for all of them to drive on.
The company is working with Coinbase, Stripe and other companies to build trusted payment systems for AI-driven commerce.
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