Sunrate and Mastercard released a white paper at WAIC titled Beyond Automation: Defining Agent‑Driven Global Payments, outlining how AI agents could reshape the end‑to‑end B2B cross‑border payments chain. The report says corporate finance today still manually verifies overseas supplier accounts, matches contracts and invoices, selects FX timing and bears T+2‑plus settlement delays. It argues AI agents can automatically extract multi‑format documents, match purchase orders, recommend optimal paym

Sunrate and Mastercard released a white paper at WAIC titled Beyond Automation: Defining Agent‑Driven Global Payments, outlining how AI agents could reshape the end‑to‑end B2B cross‑border payments chain. The report says corporate finance today still manually verifies overseas supplier accounts, matches contracts and invoices, selects FX timing and bears T+2‑plus settlement delays. It argues AI agents can automatically extract multi‑format documents, match purchase orders, recommend optimal payment routes and FX windows to corporate needs, perform compliance pre‑screening and trigger payments within authorised limits, then automate reconciliation and exception flagging — freeing finance teams from low‑value operational tasks.