Deutsche Bank and Ant Digital Technology have jointly released a white paper to explore AI Agent-driven financial payments.

Deutsche Bank and Ant Digital Technologies jointly published the whitepaper *Agentic Payments in Wholesale Finance* on November 9, exploring the application potential of AI Agents in areas including institutional fund management, cross-border payments, and trade finance, along with corresponding governance and risk control frameworks. The whitepaper points out that AI Agents could autonomously predict liquidity gaps, evaluate fund allocation and foreign exchange transaction plans, coordinate cross-border payment routes, process trade finance documents, identify data discrepancies, and generate payment instructions. Such applications are expected to enhance the automation level and operational efficiency of financial institutions’ complex businesses. For risk control, the whitepaper advocates the "Bounded Agentic Execution" model instead of granting AI unlimited autonomy, and proposes a reference architecture consisting of three layers: intent and orchestration, control and authorization, and settlement execution. Core safeguards include clear and revocable permission boundaries, verifiable agent identities, and the Know Your Agent (KYA) verification mechanism. It also lists Ant Digital Technologies’ self-developed agent platform Anvita Flow as a practical application case.