When AI Agents hold wallets: Building the new transaction layer
Agents can act. Agents can negotiate. Agents can trigger transactions. As AI agents begin to execute tasks autonomously — searching, negotiating, booking, purchasing — a fundamental question emerges: how do machines hold, move, and account for money?

Behind the demos lies a complex infrastructure challenge. Agents require identity, delegated authority, wallets, transaction rails, fraud detection, audit trails, and compliance with financial regulation. Existing payment systems were built for humans and organisations — not autonomous software actors.

This session brings together leaders from financial institutions, payment infrastructure, and applied AI to examine what it actually takes to move from experimental agents to production-grade autonomous transactions. For AI engineers and financial leaders alike, this is a grounded look at the emerging transaction layer for autonomous systems.

• Nico Marais, General Manager Finance | Prosus

• Sameer Verma, Manager @PaymentGenes

• Dhruv Ghulati, Principal PM - AI/ML Adyen

• Chitrak Gangrade Product @ Stripe

• Olivier Brinkman, Founder Apiosk Payment infrastructure for autonomous software.

• Yorick Naeff, Head of Innovation, ABN AMRO | Co-founder, BUX

• Connie Dorrestijn, Advisory Board, Worldpay