AI Agents Need Permissioned Funding Sources. Not Company Bank Accounts.

The trillion-dollar question hovering around agentic commerce is why agents would hold money at all. After all, if a multinational eventually operates, say, 10,000 artificial intelligence agents buying software, booking travel, procuring inventory, managing advertising and negotiating with suppliers; then funding 10,000 separate accounts would reproduce one of corporate finance’s oldest problems at machine scale: cash sitting in thousands of places waiting to be used.