Digital Payment Systems and Agentic Commerce

In Digital Payment Systems and Agentic Commerce, you’ll explore how modern payment infrastructure and AI-powered commerce are reshaping financial transactions. You’ll examine real-time payments, account-to-account transfers, open banking, payment APIs, programmable money, CBDCs, stablecoins, tokenized assets, smart contracts, and digital identity. You’ll then explore the emerging model of agentic commerce, where AI agents interpret commercial intent, discover and evaluate options, negotiate terms, and execute transactions. You’ll analyze multi-agent payment orchestration, delegated payment controls, API-first integration, cryptographic authorization, and security for autonomous transactions. The course also examines AI-powered procurement, inventory optimization, intelligent logistics, and payment automation, alongside data sovereignty, algorithmic bias, sustainability, multimodal interaction, and human oversight. Designed for learners interested in digital payments, fintech, banking, retail, logistics, and supply chains, this course helps you evaluate modern payment infrastructure, programmable-finance models, and AI-native commerce strategies. Its distinctive focus connects the evolution of payment systems with the emerging ecosystem of autonomous, AI-driven transactions.