Crédit Agricole, Mastercard, and Worldline Complete France's First Production Agentic Payment

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Crédit Agricole, Mastercard, and Worldline carried out what they call the first agentic payment transaction completed in production in France — an AI agent autonomously executing a real payment rather than a sandbox demo. It's an early concrete milestone for the agent-driven commerce thesis moving into regulated banking rails. Builders should note the institutional players validating agent-initiated payments alongside OKX's parallel agent-payments push.