EMVCo Published a Draft Card Standard That Gives Agent Purchase Intent Its Own Registry

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EMVCo released a draft framework, EMV Agentic Payments — Framework for Specifications, centered on Intent Services: a shared interoperable layer where payment participants register, reference, retrieve and manage consumer-authorised intent before, during and after a transaction. It targets scenarios where intent persists over time such as recurring purchases, cumulative budgets and post-transaction activity, and flags Know Your Agent and Agentic Transaction Indicators as future work. Feedback closes September 30, which is the window for anyone building agent commerce to shape the card rails rather than route around them.