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Policy2026-07-25 · source-backed
The joint white paper, released at WAIC on July 23, maps 16 pain points across the B2B payment lifecycle to 13 AI use cases from supplier onboarding through accounts payable, arguing cross-border payments are moving past automation into autonomy. The transferable piece for agent builders is the trust stack it names: Know Your Agent (KYA), payment tokenisation, auditability, and cross-industry interoperability. KYA is going to be a compliance acronym within a year, and you'll be implementing it.
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