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The rise of AI Payment Agents and the infrastructure that powers them

David Sansonetti
David Sansonetti
April 29, 2025
The rise of AI Payment Agents and the infrastructure that powers them

In today’s fast-moving financial world, treasury teams are under pressure to operate faster, smarter and more securely. With capital flowing 24/7 across time zones and currencies, the legacy model of batch processes, spreadsheets and waiting for Monday morning is no longer sustainable.

At Fipto, we believe AI-powered payment agents will redefine how finance teams work. But these agents are only as powerful as the infrastructure they run on, and that is exactly where our focus lies. Stablecoins are programmable money, and AI agents are the perfect operators for their flows.

We are building Fipto’s own Model Context Protocol (MCP): a foundational layer that enables AI agents to automate, orchestrate and secure payments in a world where money never sleeps.

What is an AI Payment Agent?

An AI payment agent is not just a chatbot or analytics tool. It is a contextualised assistant that can:

  • Understand treasury workflows
  • Monitor financial positions in real time
  • Recommend actions
  • Execute payments autonomously under defined rules

These agents combine large language models (LLMs), ledger awareness and programmable execution logic, all powered by stablecoin rails.

The result is treasury operations that are faster, more reliable and more intelligent.

How AI Agents and MCP fit in the future of financial workflows

The real challenge: execution in a fragmented world

Modern payments, especially in stablecoins, span a complex web of liquidity providers, currencies, blockchains and compliance checks. This is where orchestration becomes critical.

At Fipto, we see the MCP as the orchestration layer for stablecoin payments, allowing agents to operate across fragmented rails, apply company-specific rules and optimise for cost, speed or risk.

Without orchestration, agents are limited. With MCP, they become powerful.

Two high-impact areas for AI Payment Agents

1. Optimising payment execution

Behind every “send payment” instruction lies a maze of decisions: Which rail to use? Which currency to convert from? What route is fastest or cheapest?

MCP enables AI agents to:

  • Evaluate execution routes in real time
  • Balance trade-offs between speed, cost and liquidity
  • Adapt to market changes instantly
  • Flag anomalies and request human validation when needed

It transforms a static system into an intelligent payment fabric.

2. Enhancing the end-user experience

For treasurers and finance teams, AI agents become intelligent assistants that:

  • Answer plain-language queries such as "What were our total payment fees last month?"
  • Prepare payments from invoices or recurring templates, adjusting to changes automatically
  • Generate reports and analytics without spreadsheet exports
  • Proactively identify idle capital after cut-off times and propose investment actions

This is more than a dashboard. It is an interface to your treasury, powered by context-aware infrastructure.

Use cases that matter, especially post cut-off

MCP makes it possible to programme agents that:

  • Anticipate idle capital situations and deploy stablecoin yield strategies over the weekend (for example, €2.5M not allocated by Friday at 4 PM)
  • Automate merchant payouts
  • Process batch payments
  • Alert on FX spreads
  • Assist with reconciliation
  • Pay suppliers instantly

All in real time, across borders and time zones, with no manual intervention.

Built for security, not just speed

Unlike most AI solutions, Fipto’s client data is never used for training by large language models.

The agent converts queries into internal requests, fetches secure data and returns answers in business-native language.

It speaks finance and keeps your data private by design.

From vision to reality: the Fipto AI Agents roadmap

Our Alpha version of MCP supports full read-only interaction with your treasury infrastructure:

  • Query wallets, transactions and balances
  • Generate reports and charts

What is next?

  • Programmable workflows and alerts
  • Automated payments
  • Conditional triggers and approval logic

All safely orchestrated, fully auditable and stablecoin-native.

Fipto is currently seeing opportunities to develop AI agents with different roles. A healthy ecosystem of agents could be composed of:

  • Payment Agents
  • Query Agents
  • Alert Agents
  • Reconciliation Agents
  • Yield Agents

Eventually these agents would be able to communicate with each other, for instance an Alert Agent could trigger a Payment Agent.

Why this matters now

Capital no longer sleeps. Treasury operations no longer need to wait for Monday.

CFOs need tools that are as agile as their capital, and AI payment agents are how we get there. Fipto’s MCP is the infrastructure layer that enables this future: secure ledger access, intelligent orchestration and stablecoin-native execution.

Get early access

We are inviting select partners to preview MCP Alpha and co-build the future of treasury automation.

To join the early access program, get in touch with us at contact@fipto.com or book a demo.