The Agentic Trust and Commerce Forum brings together the full payments, identity and AI ecosystem to get the fundamentals right. Members include merchants, issuers, networks, processors, identity providers, and AI platforms
A U.S. Payments Forum Initiative, from the Secure Technology Alliance
AI agents are already initiating transactions: searching, selecting, authorizing, and paying on behalf of consumers and businesses. The infrastructure, standards, and rules governing those transactions are still being defined.
Early decisions about agent identity, consumer consent, and liability will shape agentic commerce for years. The organizations in the room now will set those standards. The ones that wait will respond to them.
The Secure Technology Alliance has convened the payments and identity ecosystem at every major inflection point: EMV migration, contactless payments, tokenization, and mobile wallet security. The Agentic Trust and Commerce Forum is that convening for the agentic era.
The Forum provides a structured, neutral space for cross-industry alignment on the foundational questions no single stakeholder can answer alone:
The Forum produces practical, consensus-driven guidance: usable frameworks that reflect how payments and identity actually work, not position papers.
issuers, networks, processors, acquirers, payment service providers, payment facilitators and digital wallets
retailers, marketplaces and embedded commerce operators
LLM developers, agent platform providers and AI innovators
digital identity providers, authentication specialists, cybersecurity firms and fraud/risk platforms
industry bodies, regulators and policy stakeholders
