Who is Liable in Agentic Payments? The Question the Industry Can't Answer Yet | Camilla Bullock, CEO of Emerging Payments Association Asia

Who is Liable in Agentic Payments? The Question the Industry Can't Answer Yet | Camilla Bullock, CEO of Emerging Payments Association Asia

May 14, 2026 · 30 min · Season 3 · Episode 83

About this episode

The episode discusses the complexities of liability in agentic payments with Camilla Bullock, focusing on the implications of AI agents in financial transactions.

AI agents are about to start spending our money, and we as a payments industry are not ready. I love this episode as it’s recorded live at Money2020’s famous MoneyPot podcast booth! Yea the fancy, cool one LOL Today I’m joined by Camilla Bullock, CEO of Emerging Payments Association Asia, and we unpack one of the most pressing questions in FinTech right now: when an AI agent transacts on your behalf, who is actually in control and who is liable when something goes wrong? Key highlights: Why "shared liability" is not an answer; and what the industry needs to define first The emerging KYA (Know Your Agent) framework and why banks may refuse agentic transactions without it How real time payments in APAC already show us what agentic fraud will look like at scale The quantum encryption threat that less than 20% of senior payments leaders are actively tracking Why standards interoperability is the single most important unlock for agentic commerce We discuss: the $1 trillion agentic payments opportunity in APAC, the governance and audit trail gap, intent vs. authorization in agentic transactions, data sharing as fraud defense, the quantum threat to payments encryption, who is setting…

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Host: Monica Millares

Guest: Camilla Bullock

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Organizations: Emerging Payments Association Asia, Money2020, APAC

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