Payments & Liquidity

Sonja Davidovic and Hervé Tourpe - How Agentic AI Will Reshape Payments; IMF Note No. 2026-004; April 2026

IMF analysis argues that agentic AI could materially change payments by automating decision-making, orchestration, and exception handling across payment flows. It highlights efficiency gains alongside governance, risk, and policy challenges for financial institutions and authorities.

Topics: payments, agentic ai, imf, risk

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