On July 18, during the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference, the global payment and treasury management platform Xunhui and Mastercard released the white paper “Beyond Automation: Defining Intelligent Driven Global Payments”. According to reports, this is the first white paper on global payments for AI agents in the B2B industry, which suggests that cross-border payments are moving from digitalization and digitization to a stage of autonomy, that is, AI agents can independently complete payment, exchange, compliance review, and reconciliation processes under authorization.

On July 18, during the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference, the global payment and treasury management platform Xunhui and Mastercard released the white paper “Beyond Automation: Defining Intelligent Driven Global Payments”. According to reports, this is the first white paper on global payments for AI agents in the B2B industry, which suggests that cross-border payments are moving from digitalization and digitization to a stage of autonomy, that is, AI agents can independently complete payment, exchange, compliance review, and reconciliation processes under authorization.