Ant to let AI agents shop via 10 digital wallets, from AlipayHK to Starryblu to KakaoPay

SCMP TechSeptember 11, 2026en

Ant International, the overseas affiliate of Chinese fintech giant Ant Group, is making a major bid to power the next phase of mobile payments: letting autonomous artificial intelligence agents handle your electronic wallet to make purchases. The company on Friday open-sourced its Agentic Mobile Protocol (AMP) on GitHub, effectively putting it forward as a potential global technical standard for how AI agents securely pay for real-world goods. AMP was built onto Ant International’s existing...

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