Why agentic commerce could expose major weaknesses in merchant infrastructure

May 28, 2026 at 9:30 AM

Finextra covers a Worldpay survey of 8,000 consumers across 8 global markets on AI agent-driven purchasing. The piece, citing the survey, argues that agentic commerce, where software buys on behalf of a human, could expose gaps in merchant payment infrastructure. Merchants running standard checkout, fraud, and authentication flows may need to account for non-human transaction patterns.