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title: "Agentic payments terms in the payments glossary"
description: "How AI agents move money: spending limits, human-in-the-loop approvals, agent compliance, and the authorization layer behind agent-initiated payments."
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# Agentic payments terms in the payments glossary

How AI agents move money: spending limits, human-in-the-loop approvals, agent compliance, and the authorization layer behind agent-initiated payments.

- [Agentic payments](https://infinite.net/learn/glossary/agentic-payments.md): Payments initiated by AI agents rather than people — screened, bounded, and documented so software can move real money a compliance team can defend.
- [Agent compliance](https://infinite.net/learn/glossary/agent-compliance.md): The controls that keep AI-agent payments inside a compliance program — a verified principal, screening on every instruction, and a record for every transfer.
- [Agent spending limits](https://infinite.net/learn/glossary/agent-spending-limits.md): Caps on what an AI agent may pay — per transaction, per day, or per month — enforced at the account layer rather than inside the agent’s own code.
- [Human-in-the-loop approval](https://infinite.net/learn/glossary/human-in-the-loop-approval.md): A control that holds an automated payment until a named person reviews it — the escalation path when an agent’s instruction breaches a limit or trips monitoring.
- [Model Context Protocol](https://infinite.net/learn/glossary/model-context-protocol.md): An open standard that lets AI agents and assistants connect to external tools and data — including payment APIs — through one common interface.
- [Agent authorization](https://infinite.net/learn/glossary/agent-authorization.md): The scoped, revocable grant that lets an AI agent act on a person’s or business’s money — defining what it may do and how much it may move.

## More of the glossary

- [Assets terms in the payments glossary](https://infinite.net/learn/glossary/category/assets.md): The instruments that move on stablecoin rails: what stablecoins are, how they are minted, redeemed, and backed, and how reserves are verified.
- [Accounts terms in the payments glossary](https://infinite.net/learn/glossary/category/accounts.md): Account structures for holding business funds: demand deposit accounts, virtual and FBO accounts, and how pooled and per-customer structures differ.
- [Compliance terms in the payments glossary](https://infinite.net/learn/glossary/category/compliance.md): The controls behind compliant payments: KYB and KYC, sanctions screening, transaction monitoring, and the BSA framework US institutions operate under.
- [Payment rails terms in the payments glossary](https://infinite.net/learn/glossary/category/payment-rails.md): The networks that settle business payments (SWIFT, ACH, Fedwire, RTP, and stablecoin rails) and how their speed, hours, and finality compare.
- [Banking terms in the payments glossary](https://infinite.net/learn/glossary/category/banking.md): How banks hold and move money behind the scenes: correspondent banking, routing numbers, and how deposit insurance passes through to customers.
- [Payments glossary | Direct answers to every term](https://infinite.net/learn/glossary.md): Every term in the payments glossary, grouped by category (stablecoins, accounts, compliance, payment rails, banking, and FX), each with a direct answer up top.